Project Engineer

Hargrove and Associates•Gonzales, LA

12d•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 involves supporting the Project Manager in managing engineering budgets and schedules, facilitating scope changes, reporting engineering status, planning and scheduling engineering resources, and ensuring discipline awareness of man-hours and estimate basis. The Project Engineer will also be responsible for developing or facilitating the development of project-specific engineering and design procedures, coordinating engineering input for scope-defining documents, and ensuring timely completion of multi-discipline deliverables. This includes leading inter-discipline coordination, resolving design issues, reviewing 3D models for coordination and loss prevention, and reviewing all design deliverables for inter-discipline consistency and adequacy of reviews before approving transmittals. The role also ensures 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.
Strong organizational and planning skills
Strong leadership abilities
Manufacturing plant operations, maintenance, and capital projects experience
Role model within Project Engineering function
High ethical standards - unwilling to compromise on worker safety and regulatory compliance requirements
Organizational credibility - able to influence business area, engineering and manufacturing managers in decision making process
Obtain TWIC, Security passport and pass refinery background checks-TWIC card has to be current and valid for completion of project.
Ability to sit, stand, or walk for long periods of time.
Must be authorized to work in the United States.

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.
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.
Regularly reviewing the 3D 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.