Sr. Project Engineer
About The Position
Manage capital projects from initial concept through project closeout across Propose, Feasibility, Define, Execute, and Closeout phases. Establish project objectives, scope, deliverables, acceptance criteria, and success measures, ensuring technical solutions align with business, operational, safety, environmental, reliability, and lifecycle objectives. Monitor project performance and proactively address risks, issues, changes, and deviations. Develop and maintain project execution plans, schedules, budgets, forecasts, and resource plans, and provide timely status reports to leadership and stakeholders. Lead cross-functional project teams to meet safety, cost, schedule, quality, and performance objectives. Develop and maintain project estimates as definition matures, manage budgets and cash flow, evaluate change requests, and maintain integrated schedules and critical-path visibility. Coordinate execution with plant operations, maintenance activities, outages, and turnaround schedules. Lead projects through a formal stage-gate or Front-End Loading (FEL) methodology. Facilitate gate reviews, secure business, technical, and funding approvals, ensure phase deliverables are completed and documented, prepare or coordinate funding authorization packages, and validate readiness, definition maturity, and risk disposition before recommending advancement. Manage engineering and construction contractors, vendors, consultants, and specialist resources. Develop scopes of work; support bid evaluations, contractor selection, negotiations, and contract administration; coordinate procurement; and monitor contractor performance, schedules, deliverables, safety, quality, and commercial compliance. Support construction planning, field execution, commissioning, startup, and turnover, including field supervision of contractors and engineering firms. Apply engineering principles and industry practices throughout project development and execution. Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering activities across process, mechanical, piping, civil/structural, electrical, instrumentation and controls, and automation. Review engineering deliverables for completeness, constructability, operability, maintainability, and technical adequacy. Support design reviews, hazard reviews, risk assessments, Management of Change activities, and technical assurance reviews. Adhere to onsite safety policies; recommend process, production, and departmental improvements; participate in project HAZOPs and PHAs and continued learning initiatives; and undertake non-process project design and installation and other special assignments supporting administration and technical labs. Coach, mentor, motivate, and supervise project team members and contractors, influence positive action, and mentor interns and junior engineers when needed. Demonstrate emotional empathy, a positive attitude, excellent communication, flexibility and adaptability, and interpersonal skills.
Responsibilities
- Manage capital projects from concept through closeout across Propose, Feasibility, Define, Execute, and Closeout phases.
- Establish project objectives, scope, deliverables, acceptance criteria, and success measures.
- Ensure technical solutions align with business, operational, safety, environmental, reliability, and lifecycle objectives.
- Monitor project performance and address risks, issues, changes, and deviations.
- Develop and maintain project execution plans, schedules, budgets, forecasts, and resource plans; report status to leadership and stakeholders.
- Lead cross-functional teams to achieve safety, cost, schedule, quality, and performance objectives.
- Develop and maintain project estimates as definition matures from early screening through execution.
- Manage budgets, forecasts, commitments, expenditures, contingency, and cash flow.
- Evaluate change requests and communicate effects on cost, schedule, scope, and project economics.
- Develop and maintain integrated schedules, milestone plans, and critical-path visibility.
- Coordinate execution with plant operations, maintenance, outages, and turnaround schedules.
- Lead projects through formal stage-gate or Front-End Loading (FEL) methodology; facilitate gate reviews and obtain required approvals.
- Ensure phase deliverables are complete, reviewed, and documented before gate advancement.
- Prepare or coordinate funding authorization packages and gate review materials.
- Validate project readiness, definition maturity, and risk disposition before recommending phase advancement.
- Manage engineering contractors, construction contractors, vendors, consultants, and specialist resources.
- Develop scopes of work and support bid evaluations, contractor selection, negotiations, and contract administration.
- Coordinate procurement of equipment, materials, and long-lead items.
- Monitor contractor performance, schedules, deliverables, safety, quality, and commercial compliance.
- Support construction planning, field execution, commissioning, startup, and turnover; supervise contractors and engineering firms in the field.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering activities, including process, mechanical, piping, civil/structural, electrical, instrumentation and controls, and automation.
- Review engineering deliverables for completeness, constructability, operability, maintainability, and technical adequacy.
- Support design reviews, hazard reviews, risk assessments, Management of Change activities, and technical assurance reviews.
- Adhere to onsite safety policies.
- Recommend process/production and departmental improvements.
- Participate in project HAZOPs and PHAs and continued learning initiatives.
- Design and install non-process projects as required; perform special assignments supporting administration and technical labs.
- Coach, mentor, motivate, and supervise project team members and contractors, and influence them to take positive action.
- Mentor department interns and junior engineers when needed.
- Demonstrate emotional empathy, a positive attitude, excellent communication skills, flexibility/adaptability, and interpersonal skills.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
