Highlights
Job Summary Sterling Engineering is seeking a Mechanical Project Engineer to support mechanical design reviews, skid fabrication, and field construction activities for food and beverage processing projects. The successful candidate will collaborate with engineering, fabrication, and construction teams to ensure projects are completed safely, on schedule, within specifications, and on budget.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Riverton, UT |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1969 |
| Website | http://www.sterling-engineering.com |
Description
Mechanical Project Engineer
Location: Riverton, UT
Job Type: Direct Hire
Salary: $120,000 annually
Travel: 40–60%
Experience: 3+ Years
Job Type: Direct Hire
Salary: $120,000 annually
Travel: 40–60%
Experience: 3+ Years
Job Summary
Sterling Engineering is seeking a Mechanical Project Engineer to support mechanical design reviews, skid fabrication, and field construction activities for food and beverage processing projects.This position is ideal for a hands-on mechanical engineering professional who understands how process equipment and piping systems are designed, fabricated, assembled, and installed. The successful candidate will collaborate with engineering, fabrication, and construction teams to ensure projects are completed safely, on schedule, within specifications, and on budget.
Key Responsibilities
- Review 3D models, mechanical layouts, and fabrication drawings to identify constructability concerns and recommend design improvements.
- Oversee skid fabrication and mechanical assembly activities, monitor progress, and coordinate corrective actions when deviations occur.
- Work closely with engineering and design teams to ensure mechanical systems meet project requirements and installation specifications.
- Develop field construction plans, including installation sequencing, material requirements, procurement needs, and project schedules.
- Coordinate mechanical installation activities involving process equipment, piping systems, and skid-mounted assemblies.
- Support project execution while maintaining safety, quality, schedule, and budget objectives.
- Collaborate with Project Managers, designers, fabrication teams, contractors, and field personnel to resolve technical challenges.
- Travel to customer sites to oversee mechanical construction activities or provide technical guidance to field engineers.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum 3 years of relevant mechanical engineering, project engineering, fabrication, or industrial construction experience.
- Hands-on experience reviewing mechanical designs, 3D models, and fabrication drawings.
- Experience with skid fabrication, mechanical assembly, and field construction activities.
- Ability to identify potential fabrication and installation challenges and recommend practical solutions.
- Experience coordinating construction activities, material requirements, schedules, and project deliverables.
- Strong understanding of mechanical equipment, piping systems, and industrial manufacturing processes.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with engineering, fabrication, and field construction teams.
- Willingness and ability to travel 40–60%.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with food, beverage, dairy, or sanitary process systems.
- Background working for process systems integrators, equipment manufacturers, or industrial engineering firms.
- Experience with skid-mounted processing equipment and sanitary piping installations.
- Knowledge of industrial utility systems.
- Experience providing technical oversight during field construction and installation.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
About Company
Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:
- Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.
- Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.
Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.