Project Engineer

Mission Critical Group • Caldwell, ID

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About The Position

The Project Engineer provides technical support and coordination across the engineering portfolio to help meet customer, project, and production requirements. The role coordinates among engineering, project management, sales, procurement, quality, production, customers, vendors, and external engineering partners. It organizes technical information, supports planning and prioritization, tracks schedules and deliverables, reviews engineering documentation, and helps resolve technical issues throughout the project lifecycle. The Project Engineer applies independent technical judgment within assigned responsibilities, maintains accurate project records, and supports work from concept and design through fabrication, assembly, and closeout.

Requirements

• High school diploma, equivalent, or any combination of education and experience demonstrating the ability to perform the job duties.
• Working knowledge of engineering design principles, technical documentation, drawing and model review practices, tolerances, bills of materials, change control, and manufacturing methods.
• Ability to read, interpret, organize, and evaluate engineering drawings, 3D models, specifications, bills of materials, calculations, and P&IDs for accuracy, completeness, and compliance.
• Ability to apply independent technical judgment, identify design gaps or nonconformities, coordinate input from multiple disciplines, and recommend practical solutions.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Strong time management skills and ability to self-motivate.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to coordinate across departments and with customers, vendors, and engineering partners.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite.
• Ability to pass a background check and drug screen.

Nice To Haves

• Two or more years of relevant engineering, design, drafting, manufacturing support, project coordination, or technical review experience.
• Familiarity with CAD systems, including SolidWorks.
• Understanding of sheet metal forming and capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical coordination and support for new product, customer project, production support, continuous improvement, and sustaining engineering activities.
• Support planning, assignment, prioritization, scheduling, and delivery of engineering work by internal teams, external engineering firms, vendors, and contract resources.
• Develop and communicate scopes of work, technical requirements, priorities, milestones, and expected deliverables for assigned engineering activities.
• Coordinate technical matters among engineering, project management, sales, procurement, quality, production, customers, vendors, and external engineering partners.
• Gather, organize, and distribute drawings, specifications, standards, customer requirements, design inputs, and other technical information.
• Track project status, deliverables, questions, decisions, changes, approvals, and due dates; identify risks or delays and escalate concerns.
• Review drawings, 3D models, bills of materials, calculations, specifications, and other engineering deliverables for completeness, accuracy, consistency, manufacturability, and alignment with requirements.
• Identify technical gaps, discrepancies, and nonconformities; coordinate corrections, approvals, and follow-up actions.
• Coordinate responses to technical questions, design changes, redlines, requests for information, shop-floor feedback, and field issues.
• Maintain project records, revision histories, transmittals, approvals, action logs, and other technical documentation.
• Support engineering workload visibility, resource coordination, and communication to management about capacity, quality, responsiveness, and recurring issues.
• Support continuous improvement by standardizing engineering handoffs, submittal requirements, templates, design-review practices, and coordination processes.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure engineering outputs support safety, quality, cost, schedule, compliance, and manufacturability expectations.
• Facilitate import, integration, organization, and exchange of 3D CAD models and related technical data in the internal engineering environment.
• Perform other job-related responsibilities as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED