| Location | New Orleans, Louisiana |
NELSON is currently looking for a Project Engineer to help support its engineering project management efforts across large multi-discipline industrial projects. Prospective candidates can expect to join a dynamic and creative team focused on efficiently delivering a transparent project experience. As an integral part of the project management team, prospective candidates can expect to take on a wide range of responsibilities within the role of Project Engineer or Project Manager, including but not limited to the following activities.
- Multi-discipline project-related planning and execution, including but not limited to schedule, cost, staffing, etc.
- Acting as the project primary point of contact between the client leadership and the multi-discipline project team
- Supporting the development of project proposals including a scope of facilities, scope of work, schedule, staff plan, project execution plan, etc.
- Ensuring inter-discipline project coordination
- Driving timely execution of all project engineering and procurement tasks
- Ensuring that all action items are addressed by project team members in a timely fashion
- Project reporting to internal and external stakeholders
- Ensuring the project team adheres to all standards and processes
- Supporting/assisting the client Project Manager(s)
- Interfacing with Engineering/Design Leads, Procurement, Project Controls, Document Control, Software/BIM, Admin, etc. for the project scope
Requirements
- A bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering from an ABET accredited university and 5 to 10 years of relevant project management experience.
- Experience in planning and executing multi-discipline Engineering and Procurement on industrial projects.
- Experience with heavy industrial, mining, metals, energy, petrochemical, or infrastructure projects.
- Experience in a design office on the engineering execution team including reviewing engineering drawings, specifications, calculations, and vendor data.
- Ability to coordinate multidisciplinary engineering teams.
- The skills to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, to a diversely educated audience.
- A professional work ethic.
- A quality focus and be detail oriented.
- Good communication, organizational, and collaboration skills.
- Proficiency with:
Advanced Work Packaging (AWP) implementation
Project execution processes
Engineering workflows
Stage-gate project development
- Working knowledge of project controls including:
Scheduling
Cost management
Forecasting
Change management
- Experience with MS SharePoint, Navisworks, and Bluebeam Revu
- Knowledge in the principles and practices of industrial engineering and procurement, preferably in a multi-discipline engineering (EP) environment.
Other preferred but not required experience include:
- Experience working as a discipline engineer (any discipline) within an EP or EPC industrial project team.
- Knowledge and experience with Earned Value Management (EVM).
- Knowledge and experience with PowerBI/Tableau, AutoCAD, Cloud-based project management tools
- Ability to read and understand Process Flow Diagrams