Project Engineer, Facilities and Utilities

Job Title: Project Engineer, Facilities and Utilities
Company: Intellectt Inc.
Location: Tempe, AZ
Employment Type: W2 Contract
Pay Rate: $55-60/hour
Work Arrangement: Onsite

We are seeking an experienced Project Engineer to manage facility and utility infrastructure projects within an operating industrial environment. Projects include electrical distribution, HVAC, critical utilities, backup power, capacity expansion, and building technical systems.

The engineer will manage assigned projects from scope definition and design through construction, testing, commissioning, startup, and turnover. This role requires coordinating technical solutions and planning outages, tie-ins, energizations, and cutovers while minimizing disruption to active manufacturing operations.

• Verify existing field conditions, review utility information, and document data gaps before proceeding with design decisions.
• Develop user requirements, design criteria, system boundaries, technical specifications, and engineering work packages.
• Coordinate utility load, capacity, demand, reliability, redundancy, maintainability, resilience, and lifecycle assessments.
• Identify utility constraints, temporary-service requirements, enabling work, third-party dependencies, and operational impacts.
• Coordinate interfaces across electrical, HVAC, utilities, controls, automation, maintenance, and building systems.
• Prepare bid-scope documents, participate in design reviews, evaluate technical proposals, and review equipment and contractor submittals.
• Coordinate consultants, equipment suppliers, contractors, utility providers, and internal stakeholders.
• Develop shutdown, tie-in, energization, and cutover plans covering prerequisites, sequencing, responsibilities, risks, communications, contingency actions, and restoration.
• Resolve field issues and support construction, testing, commissioning, startup, and operational handover.
• Maintain utility capacity records, system documentation, and final closeout records that reflect installed conditions and remaining constraints.
• Deliver assigned engineering packages independently within an integrated capital program.

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Facilities Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent technical education and progressively responsible experience.
• Typically 7+ years of experience managing facility and utility capital projects in operating industrial environments.
• Documented experience supporting construction projects with a total installed cost exceeding $30 million.
• Experience with energized systems, operational cutovers, and regulated or mission-critical facilities.
• Knowledge of electrical distribution and/or HVAC and central utility systems.
• Experience with utility load and capacity assessments, design criteria, reliability and redundancy, shutdown planning, and commissioning readiness.
• Ability to prepare technical specifications and coordinate contractors, utility providers, and cross-functional teams.
• Experience applying structured risk management to construction and operational changes.
• Current electrical-safety, lockout/tagout, arc-flash awareness, site-safety, and GMP training, as applicable to assigned activities.

• Experience with backup generators, medium-voltage distribution, controls integration, chilled water, compressed air, or other critical utilities.
• Experience developing utility master plans and supporting capacity-expansion programs.
• Experience executing shutdowns and cutovers in continuously operating pharmaceutical or biotechnology facilities.
• PE, PMP, CEM, or a commissioning credential.
• A Professional Engineer license may be required for duties involving responsible charge.

• Regular onsite presence for field verification, construction, testing, outages, tie-ins, energizations, and cutovers.
• Ability to work in active industrial areas, including mechanical rooms, rooftops, and utility yards, subject to required permits and PPE.
• Availability for off-hours, weekend, or holiday support during approved outages and restoration activities.
• Occasional travel for vendor inspections or factory testing may be required.

Work closely with Facilities, Utilities, Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, Automation, EHS, Quality, Security, Procurement, and Project Controls, as well as external designers, suppliers, contractors, commissioning providers, and utility companies.

Operational Authority: Outages, cutovers, and changes affecting active operations require authorized Owner approval. Specialized testing, destructive investigations, and utility-provider services will be coordinated when assigned.

Key Skills:

Facilities & Utilities Project Engineering, Capital Project Management ($30M+), Electrical Distribution, HVAC Systems, Critical Utilities, Medium-Voltage Systems, Backup Generators, Utility Load & Capacity Assessments, Utility Master Planning, Design Criteria

Recruiter Contact:

Rudra Prasad Kunnath
Email:

prasad.kunnath@intellectt.com

Benefits: Employees hired into this position are eligible for benefits subject to applicable plan terms and eligibility requirements.

• Health Insurance: Medical, dental, and vision insurance options are available through a third-party provider. Employees are responsible for the full cost of insurance premiums.
• Retirement: A 401(k) retirement savings plan is available. No employer matching or other employer contributions are provided.
• Paid Time Off: No PTO is provided beyond what is required by applicable state and local laws.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

Intellectt Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.