Senior Project Engineer

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This position reports to

Engineering Manager II

Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will have the opportunity to be a design authority for an engineering discipline. Each day, you will complete assignments on multiple projects of moderate size or portions of major projects in a cost-effective manner. You will also showcase your expertise by ensuring assignments are completed in accordance with contract specifications, quality standards, safety requirements, and cybersecurity policies and standards. The work model for the role is: Hybrid. This role is contributing to the Process Automation Energy Industries in Longmeadow. You will be mainly accountable for:

Acts as a technical lead and approves design deliverables.
Reviews all project documents for conformity, safety, cybersecurity, and quality assurance requirements.
Anticipates and solves unprecedented design problems, crucial issues, and/or unique conditions.
Serves as a specialist in the application of advanced concepts and methods.
Defines focus areas / priorities for design to ensure technological excellence.
Works with the customer to shape and deliver solutions and seeks customer feedback to drive and deliver improvements.
Finalizes ‘fail-safe philosophy’, ‘secure-by-design principles’, and other key concepts as part of kick-off and design freeze meetings.
Participates in project meetings and resolves any outstanding technical issues to meet contractual obligations.
Assists in preparing proposal / presentation of engineering projects / programs.
Applies design thinking / design for excellence concepts in projects, including modelling, prototyping, simulation, and calculations.
Performs project peer-reviews and utilizes checklists to perform design verification according to applicable standards and engineering guidelines.
Contributes and shares experiences in workshops related to engineering design, tools, and processes.
Coaches engineering colleagues on the translation of conceptual designs to engineering documentation, best practices, and lessons learned from past projects.
Develops, selects, and applies standard techniques, procedures, and tools.
Ensures that engineering activities comply with safety and cybersecurity regulations and standards and contractual requirements.
Reports processes and tools inefficiencies and suggests ideas for improvements.
Assesses and addresses technical risks and opportunities.
Ensures that Bill of Materials (BOM) for the project meets contractual obligations and project gross margin requirements by not generating Project Left-Over Material (PLOM).
Identifies and implements variation requests to support contract claims based on the approval from project manager.
Creates work plans and cost estimates for the portfolio of projects in consultation with respective project managers.
Ensures quality and timely implementation of projects within the targeted cost.
Prepares RFQs to meet contractual requirements and provides technical evaluation of suppliers’ proposals.
Collaborates with the supply chain function and the project manager(s) to meet the contractual requirements.
Coordinates with manufacturing and testing functions to ensure the designs are appropriately manufactured / staged and tested.
Ensures the engineering deliverables as built are updated.
Coordinates with commissioning / service functions to ensure the designs are appropriately installed and commissioned and ensures the engineering deliverables are updated post installation and commissioning (if applicable as part of the contract).
Reports any integrity, compliance, safety, cybersecurity, quality, contract, program, and cost issues to the management and / or project manager(s) for resolution.
Ensures that engineering activities and deliverables comply with safety regulations and cybersecurity regulations and standards and contractual requirements.
Ensures that Bill of Materials (BOM) for the project meets contractual obligations.
Identifies and implements change / variation requests based on the approval from project manager.
Ensures the project meets the technical requirements of the contract and is technically completed as part of contract closure activities.
Works closely with project manager right from the receipt of contract / order till closure to meet the technical requirements of the contract.
Prepares RFQs to meet contractual requirements and provides technical evaluation of suppliers’ proposals. Collaborates with the supply chain function and the project manager(s).
Coordinates with manufacturing and testing functions to ensure the technical solutions are appropriately manufactured / staged and tested.
Coordinates with commissioning / service functions to ensure the designs are appropriately installed and commissioned (if applicable as part of the contract).
Works with the customer to shape and deliver solutions and seeks customer feedback to drive and deliver improvements.
Assists in preparing proposal / presentation of engineering projects / programs.

Qualifications for the role

Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering.
8+ years’ experience in the field of Automation Engineering with experience in Power Generation & Water industry.
800xA and Symphony Plus will be advantageous.
Professional registration with ECSA will be advantageous.
Coaching and mentoring of young engineers and technicians.
Team player.
Ability to understand and solve automation issues by troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
Responsible for a project team of 2 to 4 Engineers.
Completed at least 2 projects in Automation.
Preference will be given to employment equity candidates.

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