Project Manager- Engineering

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Project Manager to lead multidisciplinary engineering projects for clients in the refining, petrochemical, chemical, energy, manufacturing, and industrial sectors. This role requires overall leadership for project scope, schedule, budget, quality, client communication, and team coordination from initial scope development through project closeout.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary point of contact for assigned clients and projects.
• Lead multidisciplinary engineering projects from initial planning through final completion.
• Develop and maintain project execution plans, scopes of work, schedules, budgets, staffing plans, and deliverable registers.
• Coordinate the work of process, mechanical, piping, civil, structural, electrical, instrumentation, controls, and project-services personnel.
• Establish project priorities, assign responsibilities, and ensure the project team understands scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations.
• Manage engineering work during feasibility studies, front-end engineering, detailed design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and startup.
• Develop proposals, labor-hour estimates, fee estimates, execution strategies, and project schedules.
• Monitor project performance, including earned progress, actual costs, committed costs, forecasts, and remaining work.
• Review project financial performance and take corrective action when cost or schedule variances are identified.
• Manage project changes, including scope clarification, change-order development, client approval, and incorporation into project forecasts.
• Lead internal and client project meetings and communicate decisions, action items, risks, and required follow-up.
• Maintain regular communication with clients regarding project status, technical issues, schedule impacts, budget performance, and required decisions.
• Identify project risks and develop mitigation plans for technical, commercial, schedule, staffing, procurement, and construction-related issues.
• Coordinate engineering deliverables with procurement, vendors, fabricators, contractors, and construction teams.
• Ensure project deliverables comply with client requirements, applicable codes, company standards, and quality-control procedures.
• Lead design reviews, constructability reviews, model reviews, and interdisciplinary coordination meetings.
• Facilitate timely resolution of technical issues, design conflicts, incomplete information, and client comments.
• Support construction by coordinating responses to requests for information, field changes, submittals, design clarifications, and site-related technical issues.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited college or university.
• Minimum of ten years of relevant engineering experience, including at least three years of project-management or project-leadership experience.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary engineering projects for industrial, refining, petrochemical, chemical, energy, or manufacturing facilities is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience managing project scope, schedule, budget, staffing, quality, and client communication.
• Experience with engineering consulting, EPC, EPCM, or owner’s engineering project execution.
• Strong understanding of engineering project lifecycles, including feasibility, front-end engineering, detailed design, procurement, and construction.
• Experience developing proposals, labor-hour estimates, execution plans, project schedules, and cost forecasts.
• Working knowledge of project controls, including progress measurement, cost reporting, forecasting, earned-value concepts, and change management.
• Experience with both greenfield and brownfield projects is preferred.
• Ability to coordinate multiple engineering disciplines and manage technical interfaces.
• Strong understanding of industrial construction practices, constructability, procurement, and field execution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from an accredited university (required).
• Professional Engineering (PE) and/or Project Management Professional (PMP) registration is preferred.
• 10+ years of relevant experience in engineering and project management.