Project Engineer Level IV

Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc. • Nelson, GA

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About The Position

This job description is a general description of the essential job functions and is not intended to be an employment contract. Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc. maintains its status as an at-will employer. Position requirements, skills, and abilities included in this job description have been determined to be the minimal standards required to successfully perform the position. Eastern Shipbuilding Group Inc. reserves the right to increase, waive or reduce these minimal standards. In no instance, however, should the duties, responsibilities, and requirements described be interpreted as all-inclusive. All employees of Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc. are expected to perform the duties as assigned by Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc., supervisory/management personnel, regardless of job title or routine job duties. Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice. To perform this job successfully, an individual is expected to be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability expected. In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. However, no accommodation will be made which may pose serious health or safety risks to the employee or others or which imposes undue hardship on Eastern Shipbuilding. Purpose Project engineers are responsible for coordinating "matrixed" support among the various Engineering disciplines, as well as subcontractors and other assigned personnel. This person will develop project schedules, review proposed changes, develop technical solutions, and correctly estimate the time and effort level (hours and material) associated with new projects and changes. The Project Engineer will generate high-level estimates of effort and project duration and develop progressively higher levels of detail prior to authorization and execution. After projects are authorized for implementation, the Project Engineer will be responsible for ensuring tasks are resident in the Engineering Department's integrated schedule, regularly produce reports on status implementation, and drive projects to successful completion. Project Engineers define the resources required and develop an execution plan for any given requirement assigned to a specific project(s) and the time constraints required to execute. Project Engineers are required to provide regular status on their assigned projects and the specific actions or commitments of the workforce required to execute them.

Responsibilities

• Develop specific, task-based plans to execute large (>1000 hours) projects with clearly established Estimated Completion Dates (ECDs) for each task.
• Ensure project plans are incorporated into the Engineering Department’s integrated schedule.
• Provide the Project Engineering Manager or Director of Engineering OPC Project: Need to Schedule all assigned Tasks including Budgeted Hours and Need to Date.
• Maintain an active tracking of these tasks, and report daily when they may be off track and or need dates change or need to be changed.
• Develop Engineering estimates durations and budgets (hours and material) for a given task or project.
• Act as Engineering representative in the preparation of responses to commercial or government Requests for Proposals (RFPs).
• Notify supervisor and other applicable managers of delays and complications to project plan execution, proposing potential solutions to recover schedule and budget.
• Lead "as required" meetings to generate resolution of obstacles to assigned or related projects. Participants of these meetings involve a diverse field of participants across a range of shipyard functions such as Program Management, Production, Project Engineering, and individual engineers. Meetings may also include participation by other internal and external Engineering customers.
• Lead "As required" meetings which are established and supported by internal engineering and external ESG customers to provide status and assist in assigned project completion.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed