Senior Project Engineer

About the role

Syensqo is all about chemistry. We’re not just referring to chemical reactions here, but also to the magic that occurs when the brightest minds get to work together. This is where our true strength lies. In you. In your future colleagues and in all your differences. And of course, in your ideas to improve lives while preserving our planet’s beauty for the generations to come. We are looking for: Project Engineer – Capital Projects, Multidisciplinary Leadership & Equipment Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Project Manager for capital projects up to $5 million.
• Provide overall leadership and accountability for project scope, cost, schedule, quality, safety, and execution.
• Lead multidisciplinary project teams through all phases of project development and execution.
• Establish project objectives, responsibilities, milestones, deliverables, and performance expectations.
• Coordinate resources across engineering disciplines and functional organizations.
• Facilitate collaboration between engineering, operations, maintenance, procurement, construction, EHS, finance, contractors, and vendors.
• Establish clear ownership and accountability for project deliverables.
• Resolve conflicts between disciplines and drive timely project decisions.
• Lead project meetings, design reviews, risk reviews, constructability reviews, and project status meetings.
• Provide regular project status updates to management, including cost, schedule, risks, issues, and required decisions.
• Manage project scope and changes through the established change‑control process.
• Serve as Lead Equipment Engineer for major equipment packages and large capital projects, as assigned.
• Provide technical leadership for the selection, specification, design, procurement, installation, commissioning, and startup of major equipment.
• Develop equipment specifications, datasheets, design criteria, and technical requirements.
• Evaluate equipment technologies and alternatives based on safety, reliability, performance, maintainability, lifecycle cost, and project requirements.
• Lead technical evaluations of equipment suppliers and review vendor proposals and quotations.
• Coordinate equipment engineering activities with process, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation and controls, civil/structural, and other disciplines.
• Review and approve vendor drawings, calculations, specifications, data sheets, equipment layouts, and other technical documentation.
• Manage vendor engineering interfaces and ensure equipment deliverables meet project requirements and schedule.
• Identify and resolve equipment design, integration, constructability, and operational issues.
• Participate in equipment design reviews, HAZOPs, constructability reviews, factory acceptance testing, inspections, and vendor meetings.
• Provide technical support during equipment fabrication, installation, commissioning, startup, and troubleshooting.
• Ensure equipment designs address reliability, maintainability, operability, safety, and long‑term performance requirements.
• Develop and maintain equipment‑related technical documentation and lessons learned.
• Serve as the technical point of contact for major equipment suppliers and internal stakeholders.
• Develop capital project concepts, scopes, business cases, and preliminary estimates.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams through FEL and applicable stage‑gate processes.
• Coordinate feasibility studies, alternatives analysis, constructability reviews, and project risk assessments.
• Establish project budgets, schedules, resource requirements, and execution strategies.
• Ensure project scope is sufficiently defined before proceeding to detailed engineering and execution.
• Coordinate engineering activities across multiple disciplines to ensure an integrated project design.
• Establish engineering deliverables, design criteria, schedules, and discipline interfaces.
• Coordinate process, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation and controls, civil/struct