Project Engineer - VOGT

The Project Engineer is responsible for project engineering coordination for the department including, but not limited to activities related to project development, execution, review and approval of requisitions and review bought out equipment technical evaluations.  This position has responsibility and accountability for ensuring engineering schedules, providing engineering man-hour forecasts and engineering budgets on assigned projects. This position is the technical manager of the project and communicates technical issues with the Project Manager and the Customer. This position will involve customer visits and other business-related activities such as support for project kick-off meetings and site walk downs as necessary for projects.

Essential Responsibilities:

Project Technical Leader

Manages the technical aspect of the assigned projects during contract execution

Provides on-site support to vendors, and manufacturing when necessary to ensure project success

Understand and interpret specification requirements to ensure that they are met during project execution.

Customer Liaison

Lead technical contact for the customer on assigned projects.  All technical correspondence with the customer will flow through and be reviewed by the PE

Formulate and present all RFI’s to the customer for quick resolution to allow the project team to meet schedule requirements

Advise customer on impacts of change requests 

Scheduling, Forecasting and Budget Analysis

Maintains a project’s engineering schedule for all assigned projects by coordinating tasks with Discipline Managers and project team personnel

Responsible for developing and maintaining project man-hour forecasts

Report out to upper management on schedule progress and provide recovery plans for areas where the schedule is behind.

Document Control

Manage the Document Control Automation Program (DCAP) for the project.

Process all incoming vendor and customer documents to ensure that they are reviewed by the proper team members.

Process all outgoing document submittals to the vendors or customers to ensure that necessary changes are communicated properly and in a timely manner.

Set up and manage the Master Document List (MDL) of customer submittals to ensure that all documents are submitted on time as required by the project specification/contract

Administrative

Development and coordination of project O&M manual as required.

Conducts, participates in and maintains meeting minutes for team meetings, meetings with support personnel, and meetings with the customer.

Takes an active role when working with other PEs to make improvements in cost, quality or efficiency of the department by revising procedures, work instructions or templates

Sales/Innovation

Represents the Engineering Department internally and externally as directed, including traveling when needed.

Facilitates required design improvements/innovation projects based on customer inputs

Review sales proposals, RFQ’s, proposal schedules and technical reports.