Sr. Project Engineer
Required skills
- capital projects
- project closeout
- project objectives
- scope
- deliverables
- acceptance criteria
- technical solutions
- business objectives
- operational objectives
- safety
Nice to have
- Emotional Empathy
- Positive Attitude
- Excellent Communication Skills
- Flexibility / Adaptability
Role summary
The Senior Project Engineer will manage capital projects from concept to closeout, overseeing all phases of project lifecycle including proposal, feasibility, definition, execution, and closure. Responsibilities include establishing project objectives, scope, deliverables, and success measures, ensuring technical solutions align with business and operational goals, and proactively managing risks, issues, and changes. The role involves developing and maintaining project execution plans, schedules, budgets, forecasts, and resource plans, while leading cross-functional teams and managing contractors, vendors, and consultants. Key activities include budget management, change request evaluation, schedule development, contractor coordination, procurement, and supporting construction, commissioning, and startup phases. The position requires applying engineering principles, coordinating multidisciplinary engineering activities, and participating in reviews such as HAZOPs and PHAs. This role also involves coaching, mentoring, and supervising project team members and contractors.
- 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.
- Ensure 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.
- Provide clear and timely project status reports to leadership and stakeholders.
- Lead cross-functional project teams to achieve safety, cost, schedule, quality, and performance objectives.
- Develop, review, 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 potential impacts to cost, schedule, scope, and project economics.
- Develop and maintain integrated project schedules, milestone plans, 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 and secure required business, technical, and funding approvals.
- Ensure required phase deliverables are complete, appropriately 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 advancement to the next phase.
- 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.
- Apply engineering principles and industry practices throughout project development and execution.
- 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 all safety policies onsite.
- Make recommendations for process/production and department improvements.
- Participate in project HAZOPs and PHAs.
- Participate in continued learning initiatives.
- Design and installation of non-process projects as required.
- Special projects and assignments as needed to support administration and technical labs.
- Field supervision of contractors and engineering firms.
- 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.
- Must demonstrate the following emotional intelligence skills:
- Emotional Empathy
- Positive Attitude
- Excellent Communication Skills
- Flexibility / Adaptability
- Interpersonal Skills
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