Lead Project Engineer

Lead Project Engineer
Schenectady, NY or Greenville, SC
12 Months
Working Hours: 8am - 5pm, Monday - Friday
PAY: 67.42/HR, W 2 
2-3 days in office per week
4 positions in Greenville, SC:
3 positions in Schenectady, NY

Lead Project Engineer Americas

Looking to make a global impact and solve problems?

Through relentless innovation and continuous collaboration with our customers, Client Gas Power, part of ***, is providing more advanced, cleaner, and efficient power that people depend on today and building the energy technologies of the future.

What impact you’ll make

As a member of the Project Engineering team, you will provide input and make decisions that influence major technical and financial outcomes for client and/or the customer and customer representatives.

What you’ll do

The Lead Project Engineer provides technical project management, technical direction, and drives coordination of engineering activities and critical issue resolution for OTR-related issues for all assigned projects. The Lead Project Engineer functions as the technical liaison for the Customer and Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) representatives to ensure that the supplied design documentation and equipment fully complies with the contract requirements and drives continuous improvement in project execution. This position reports to the Project Engineering Leader of the Americas.

This position will require coordination with customers, Engineering, Procurement, and Construction firms (EPCs), Project Management, multiple engineering organizations, Centers of Excellence (COEs), Commercial Operations, Business Associates (Client), Global Supply Chain (GSC), and installation/field personnel by:

• Providing continuous improvement and operational leadership as single point contact for all customer technical inquiries, change requests, and communications for all topics related to the technology and its auxiliaries (Project Engineer scope)

• Driving lessons learned back into the design engineering organizations to avoid repeating issues

• Providing technical guidance to Project Management and Applications/Regional Customer Applications Engineering

• Conducting Customer Kick-Off Meetings (CKOMs) and/or Design Liaison Meetings (DLMs) with customers and/or their design representatives (EPCs)

• Reviewing contract documentation and communicating project requirements to all design functions, utilizing internal documentation systems and regular communication with internal engineering organizations

• Evaluating the financial/schedule impacts of customer-requested scope changes via Cost & Cycle Estimates (CCEs) and implementing changes agreed to by Change Orders via the Change Management Process

• Supporting resolution of cross-functional design complexities and working to resolve technical issues

• Mitigating engineering schedule issues and taking preventative action to avoid delivery delays or late customer deliverables

• Managing the Engineering Budget and providing quarterly Estimate at Completions (EACs) to Finance

• Providing technical support to engineering, manufacturing, sourcing, suppliers, and installation personnel to ensure equipment meets all customer requirements and business objectives

• Presenting project issue resolutions periodically to upper management, highlighting risks, and creating action plans to remedy the risks

What you’ll bring (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from an accredited college or university OR a high school diploma/ GED with 5 years of relevant experience

• Minimum 2 years of experience in Project Engineering, Design Engineering, and/or Field Engineering

Eligibility Requirement:

• Ability and willingness to travel, as required ~10% - 15%

• Ability and willingness to manage multiple priorities simultaneously

• Leadership-quality communication skills, both verbal and written

What will make you stand out

• Customer-facing experience

• Experience with GTCC – Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software

• Demonstrated creativity and problem-solving capability

• Experience and/or knowledge of plant system design engineering, manufacturing, assembly, installation, and/or testing

• Continuous process improvement mindset

In office 3-5 days per week.