Project Engineer (Civil)

Department: Engineering
Reports To: Director of Engineering
Location: Andrews, Tx worksite facility

Summary
The Project Engineer will be involved in the planning, design, and execution of projects at the WCS West Texas site. Work will involve working with internal WCS Maintenance and Operations as well as Contractors to develop engineered solutions for existing and new facilities.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities-Not all inclusive

• Attending daily operations planning meetings. – Responsible to coordinate/facilitate daily discussions/meetings supervisors for project statuses, anticipated worksite facility projects and changes being considered.
• Develop Design Documents for new facilities (buildings, landfills, components, pads) – Work with Ops and Maintenance to gather design inputs. Coordinate with other departments as applicable (Rad, Environmental, Licensing, H&S, BD) to verify anticipated project meets WCS needs.
• Prepare Quality Documentation for all work requests to ensure compliance with Engineering Procedures. – Responsible for completing small work projects and information requests, documented on internal Engineering Work Request (EWR), along with other appropriate engineering documents (Drawings, Calculations, etc.) to include in an Engineering Design Package. Keeping track of site projects and jobs and maintaining proper job documentation.
• Configuration Management – Responsible for updating and maintaining current statuses of all drawings and plans to account for changes to facilities, upgraded utility locations (underground and above ground) and to update site layout drawings and maps.
• Support Construction Projects – Partner with the Construction Project Manager to handle ongoing construction. Evaluate Requests for Information, Submittals, and Design Changes. Serve as backup support to the Construction Project Manager.
• Site Project Management – Manage discrete site work project both internal and external (contractor) work. Maintain plan, budget, schedule, and work as liaison between WCS groups and contractors. Facilitate internal work to relieve the planning and administration load from Operations and Maintenance.
• Field Observation – Observe and direct as necessary work performed by contractors and internal work efforts. Support the Field Observation performed in support of cell utilization effort.
• Other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities
This job has no supervisory responsibilities

Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree (B.S.) from an accredited four-year college or university in civil engineering.
• Prefer a Professional Engineer License or EIT with 4 years of experience.

Computer Skills

• Utilize AutoCAD software and hardware to import, manage, and draft
• Engineering modeling software as required.

Physical Demand
The physical demands described here are representative to those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee may receive occupational exposures to ionizing radiation that are As Low As is Reasonably Achievable (ALARA) and within regulatory limits. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.