Project Engineer

Hargrove Engineers & Constructors•Pascagoula, MS

5d•Onsite

About The Position

Responsible for technical leadership of a project and supporting the Project Manager in managing project performance of the engineering team with respect to cost, schedule, and client satisfaction. This work will be performed under minimal supervision. Primary responsibilities include informing the Hargrove Project Manager of all technical issues, decisions, and problems encountered on the project, coordinating with the Client on technical design issues, and coordinating with the Project Management Team on execution issues. The role also involves supporting the PM in managing engineering budgets and schedules, facilitating scope change identification, estimating, and documentation, and managing weekly and monthly reporting of engineering status and issues. Additionally, the Project Engineer will support the planning, scheduling, and forecasting of engineering resources, ensure discipline awareness of man-hours and estimate basis, and develop or facilitate the development of project-specific engineering and design procedures. This includes coordinating engineering input for scope-defining documents and ensuring timely completion of multi-discipline deliverables. The role also entails leading Inter-Discipline coordination, resolving design issues, and for 3D modeling projects, regularly reviewing the model for coordination, loss prevention, and clash detection. The Project Engineer will review all design deliverables, focusing on inter-discipline consistency and adequacy of reviews, and approve 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.
5+ years of relevant experience in engineering and project management in a heavy industrial setting.
Knowledge of the Hargrove project execution procedures.
Knowledge and application of company business standards and good practices.
Knowledge and application of company engineering standards and project controls tools.
Ability to lead a team to deliver on commitments.
A comprehensive understanding of the function of all engineering disciplines, procurement, and construction processes.
Demonstrated proficiency in complex technical issues coordination and resolution.
Ability to manage client relationships in complex situations.
Ability to relate easily to others in the business community such as customers, suppliers, contractors, government, professional and trade associations.
Ability to handle stress with poise.
Understanding of existing and potential customer needs and preferences.
Ability to delegate authority appropriately.
Ability to clearly communicate expectations and requirements to team members and to structure accountability.
Organizational skills, ability to set priorities.
Coaching and mentoring skills and experience.
Excellent listening and communication skills, both verbal and written.
Excellent presentation skills.
Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office.
Must be authorized to work in the United States.

Nice To Haves

Professional Engineering and/or Project Management Professional (PMP) registration is highly preferred.
Experience in refining, petrochemical or chemical industries.

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.
Supporting PM in managing weekly and monthly reporting of engineering status and issues.
Supporting PM in the planning, scheduling and forecasting of engineering resources to be employed on the project with the Project Discipline Leads and Department Resource Leaders.
Ensuring 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, and 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.