Project Engineer

Hargrove and Associates•Axis, AL

16d

About The Position

Job Scope: Project engineer duties are all about performing the technical, supervisory, and organizational role of supporting the Plants capital project activity. Project engineer will work closely with our other contract mechanical and electrical designers to provide design guidance and will usually make the critical decisions involving design. Moreover, they collaborate with other professionals, such as internal and external process engineers, maintenance planners, supervisors, and plant leadership. The scope of the project engineer’s duties is scalable, but all in all, the main task of the project engineer is to ensure project safety, quality, accuracy and financial accountability to capital budgets. To work with and communicate to vendors on the purchase of plant equipment. Primary responsibilities will include but not be limited to: Informing the Hargrove Project Manager of all technical issues, decisions, and problems encountered on project. Coordinating with Client on technical design issues. Coordinating with Project Management Team (PM, Construction Manager, Procurement Manager, Quality Manager, and Project Controls Lead) on execution issues Supporting PM in managing: Engineering budgets and schedule and facilitating identification, estimating and documentation of changes in scope. - Weekly and monthly reporting of engineering status and issues. - The planning, scheduling and forecasting of engineering resources to be employed on the project with the Project Discipline Leads and Department Resource Leaders. Discipline awareness of their man-hours and associated estimate basis as well as the TIC estimate quantities and the tracking against these for the recognition of scope changes as the project progresses. Developing or facilitating development of project specific engineering and design procedures Includes obtaining proper approvals if deviating from Client or Hargrove procedures. Coordinating engineering input for the documents that define the project scope (e.g. Scope & Criteria documents, Engineering Execution Plans supporting the PEP, etc.). Ensuring timely completion of multi-Discipline deliverables including: Line List, Equipment List, Area Classification Drawings, Post-IFD P&ID’s (assuring regular project review of master), and General Arrangement Drawings Leading Inter-Discipline coordination by resolving design issues among/between disciplines. For 3D modeling projects, regularly reviewing the model with a focus on: - gauging the level of timely inter-discipline coordination - considering loss prevention issues that cross disciplines - confirming clash detection is being done and clashes are resolved - Reviewing all design deliverables with particular focus on inter-discipline consistency and adequacy of discipline reviews and approving transmittals prior to issue. - Ensuring overall quality control of engineering work.

Requirements

Bachelor or Master of Science degree in Engineering from an accredited university is required.
This position requires 5+ years of relevant experience in engineering and project management.
Knowledge/ experience with mechanical and structural design.
Occupational and process safety knowledge.
Proven working experience as a project engineer.
Superb knowledge of design and visualizations software (for example, AutoCAD)
Microsoft Office competence.
Familiar with OSHA regulations for design and project execution.
Knowledge and experience on the following software packages: SAP, Microsoft Project, AUTOCAD, CADWORX, Project estimating

Nice To Haves

Professional Engineering and/or Project Management Professional (PMP) registration is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

Informing the Hargrove Project Manager of all technical issues, decisions, and problems encountered on project.
Coordinating with Client on technical design issues.
Coordinating with Project Management Team (PM, Construction Manager, Procurement Manager, Quality Manager, and Project Controls Lead) on execution issues
Supporting PM in managing: Engineering budgets and schedule and facilitating identification, estimating and documentation of changes in scope.
Weekly and monthly reporting of engineering status and issues.
The planning, scheduling and forecasting of engineering resources to be employed on the project with the Project Discipline Leads and Department Resource Leaders.
Discipline awareness of their man-hours and associated estimate basis as well as the TIC estimate quantities and the tracking against these for the recognition of scope changes as the project progresses.
Developing or facilitating development of project specific engineering and design procedures Includes obtaining proper approvals if deviating from Client or Hargrove procedures.
Coordinating engineering input for the documents that define the project scope (e.g. Scope & Criteria documents, Engineering Execution Plans supporting the PEP, etc.).
Ensuring timely completion of multi-Discipline deliverables including: Line List, Equipment List, Area Classification Drawings, Post-IFD P&ID’s (assuring regular project review of master), and General Arrangement Drawings
Leading Inter-Discipline coordination by resolving design issues among/between disciplines.
For 3D modeling projects, regularly reviewing the model with a focus on: - gauging the level of timely inter-discipline coordination - considering loss prevention issues that cross disciplines - confirming clash detection is being done and clashes are resolved
Reviewing all design deliverables with particular focus on inter-discipline consistency and adequacy of discipline reviews and approving transmittals prior to issue.
Ensuring overall quality control of engineering work.