Project Engineer

Responsibilities and Duties:

Project Role (On the project to which he/she is assigned):

• Project Engineer stands in for the Project Manager (PM) in their absence.
• Provides overall day-to-day direction and monitoring of project teams. This includes engineering, architecture, project control, cost estimating, procurement and document control.
• Possesses a working knowledge of each of the disciplines’ scope of services.
• Has an active role in management of department interfaces and coordinates those activities.
• Works with construction or construction management to establish contract package scopes (if applicable).
• Works with the DLs and document control to compile contract packages.
• Coordinates the workshare in a multi-office project execution.
• Has a role in the business development activities leading to the award of the contract. This could include client relationship development, project-specific positioning activities, proposal preparation, and oral presentations consistent with established business development processes.

Project Responsibility (On the project to which he/she is assigned):

• At the onset of the project works to establish the delineation of the responsibilities between the Project Engineer and PM.
• Understands common risk factors and works to minimize company exposure on projects.
• Creates and executes project workflows and revises as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
• Work with project controls to establish the project schedule.
• Monitors schedule status to ensure that the project is executing within schedule.
• Effectively manage scope change (DCN/PCN)
  • Ensuring changes are coordinated across disciplines.
  • Communicates status of DCN/PCNs.
• Identifies resources needed and works with the discipline managers (DM) and/or the MOD to fill the need.
• Reviews and coordinates deliverables prepared by team before issuing to the client.
• Advises management of developments that may affect project profit, costs, schedules, and client relations.

Project Utilization: The Project Engineer can function in a variety of roles on project.

• For a PM that has multiple small projects PEs can be assigned to each project under the PM allowing better utilization of the PM’s time.
• For large projects the PEs can be assigned in several configurations.
  • For multi-office execution a Project Engineer is assigned to each location to coordinate the various locations. This could involve international assignments.
  • Project Engineer can be assigned to groups of disciplines to coordinate based on their particular engineering background. For example, the process related disciplines (process, instrumentation and controls, electrical, industrial engineering, etc.) versus infrastructure related disciplines (civil, structural, architectural, HVAC, etc.)
• Function as the Project Manager. This is a job development progression role in preparation for transferring permanently to the PM organization.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering.
• Documented experience as a Discipline Lead (DL)
• Minimum 7 years of experience.