Senior Project Engineer

About the role

Location: Lockport, LA or Mandeville, LA

A Project Engineer coordinates and schedules the engineering aspects of assigned projects across multiple disciplines—including mechanical, piping, electrical, and naval architectural. The role involves initializing, organizing, and monitoring engineering projects, developing and controlling deadlines (including an integrated engineering master schedule), budgets, and technical activities on multiple projects. The Project Engineer ensures vessel compliance with engineering principles, company standards, customer specifications, and regulatory agency requirements, and works closely with the Director of Project Engineering to integrate project activities and technical products while providing technical support to business development, estimating, and on‑site support teams.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and schedule engineering tasks among various disciplines for assigned projects.
• Initialize, organize, and monitor engineering projects.
• Develop and control project deadlines, integrated engineering master schedule (IMS), budgets, and technical activities.
• Oversee requirements analysis to ensure compliance with engineering principles, company standards, customer specifications, and regulatory requirements.
• Provide field engineering services for timely resolution of engineering concerns at the production shipyard.
• Work closely with the Director of Project Engineering to integrate project activities and technical products.
• Provide technical support to business development, estimating, and on‑site support teams.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for the project to customers, the Program Management Office, Production, Planning, Purchasing, Outside Design Agents, and Regulatory Authorities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering.
• Minimum of 5 years of direct Project Engineering (or similar) experience in the design and development of marine new‑construction projects.
• Minimum of 5 years of engineering experience.

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to recognize and organize the capabilities of project team members into an effective and efficient team.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.
• Familiarity with USCG (CFR) and IMO statutory regulations (SOLAS, IBC) as well as classification requirements (ABS, LR, DNV).
• U.S. National status.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office products and computer‑assisted engineering software.
• Working knowledge of project management software (MS Project) and change management principles is a plus.