Sr. Project Engineer
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Key details
- Location
- Pasadena, TX, United States
- Work style
- Onsite
- Level
- Senior
- Job type
- Full-time
- Function
- Hardware, mechanical & civil engineering
- Focus area
- other
- Posted
- Yesterday
Skills
budget managementcash flowcontract administrationrisk assessment
About the role
- 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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