Project Engineer: III

Project Engineer – Instrumentation & Controls
Port Arthur / Sabine Pass, TX | Onsite | 12+ Month Contract

iSphere is looking for a Project Engineer with a strong Instrumentation and Controls background to support a long-term project with a major operating company in the Sabine Pass area.

This role is split between Edison Plaza in Beaumont, approximately 30% of the time, and the client’s terminal in Sabine Pass, approximately 70% of the time. You will be working in an active operating environment, managing multiple small capital and expense projects at once. In other words, this is not a role where one project politely waits for the other one to finish.

The right person will know how to take an I&C project from early scope development through engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, startup, documentation, and closeout. You will work closely with Operations, Maintenance, engineering teams, contractors, vendors, procurement, and project owners to keep work moving safely, on schedule, and within budget.

Safety comes first in this environment. You will participate in HSE reviews, field observations, permit audits, housekeeping inspections, and other activities that help protect employees, contractors, customers, the community, and the surrounding environment.

You will help define project scope, goals, schedules, costs, and deliverables as projects move through the client’s stage-gate process. This includes developing estimates, preparing funding requests, forecasting costs, tracking schedules, managing changes, and making sure project documentation does not disappear into a mysterious folder that nobody can find six months later.

You will also prepare scopes of work, specifications, procedures, bid packages, and supporting documentation. You will coordinate with procurement during the bid, evaluation, and award process, communicate directly with equipment and material vendors, obtain quotes, track purchases, and help ensure the correct equipment and services arrive when needed.

During execution, you will oversee contractors, monitor costs and schedules, review drawings and project documents, coordinate RFIs and change orders, and manage interfaces between contractors, Engineering, Operations, Maintenance, and turnaround planning teams. You will also work with Maintenance planners to coordinate field activities and help ensure permits are issued when work is ready to begin.

As projects approach completion, you will support mechanical completion, loop checks, function checks, site acceptance testing, commissioning, startup, and troubleshooting. You will develop project binders and check sheets, confirm that modifications are accurately documented, and make sure final drawings and records are returned to Operations in a timely manner.

What you need to bring:

• Engineering or engineering technology degree
• 12+ years of relevant industry experience
• Project engineering experience in an operating facility
• Experience managing several small capital or expense projects simultaneously
• Strong budget, forecasting, scheduling, change-management, and project-control experience
• Experience specifying and procuring equipment and services
• Commissioning and startup planning and execution experience
• Experience performing or coordinating loop checks, function checks, site acceptance tests, and troubleshooting
• Working knowledge of petrochemical safety and work-management practices
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to plan well ahead of field execution
• Ability to work independently, take initiative, and communicate effectively with technical and nontechnical teams
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and Bluebeam

You should have broad knowledge across Instrumentation and Controls, with deeper expertise in at least one of the following areas:

• Field instrumentation and control systems
• Actuated valve design and operation
• Distributed control systems, safety systems, and packaged-equipment PLCs
• SmartPlant Instrumentation
• Wireless instrumentation and devices
• HMI graphics development and deployment
• Analyzer systems
• Communications and telecommunications systems
• Instrument cabling, wiring, junction boxes, power supplies, distribution systems, and UPS systems
• TCP/IP, SCADA, Modbus, Ethernet, switches, routers, fiber optics, and transmission systems

Experience with marine vessel-loading infrastructure and related instrumentation would be a strong plus.

This is a hands-on project engineering role for someone who can organize the details, coordinate the people, protect the budget, and keep several projects moving without losing sight of what is happening in the field.