Project Engineer

SCHEDULE:

• Monday – Friday 8:00am – 5:00pm.
• Subject to change according to business needs.

BENEFITS:

• Excellent benefit package available: medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance and AD&D, FSA, vacation, PTO, 401k, and paid holiday.
• Subject to applicable eligibility and waiting periods 

JOB SUMMARY:

Directs, coordinates, and exercises functional authority for planning, organization, control, integration, and completion of engineering projects within area of assigned responsibility by performing the following duties personally or through subordinate supervisors. 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS, DUTIES AND PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage all engineering projects from a design, build, commissioning, and cost aspect.
• Reviews project design for compliance with engineering principles, company standards, customer contract requirements, and related specifications.
• Ensures early management tools are utilized: target criteria, operational readiness, commissioning, and training of operations and maintenance.
• Coordinates activities concerned with technical developments, scheduling, and resolving engineering design and test problems.
• Controls expenditures within limitations of project budget.
• Prepares interim and completion project reports.
• Updates plant drawings as required.

JOB SPECIFICATIONS AND QUALIFICATIONS:

Education:

• Preferred: BS degree in Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Experience:

• Preferred 3 years’ experience in project management.
• Ability to manage projects from $5k to $30 million.

Skills:

• Able to work in teams effectively and encourage a positive work environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively trouble-shoot and use problem solving skills.
• Effective decision-making skills and critical thinking.
• Accuracy and attention to details in daily activities.
• Highly organized, with the ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Effective prioritizing and time management skills.
• Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with those contacted during the course of work.                     

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of dairy science, 3A and sanitary design.
• Knowledge of dairy processing equipment: separators, pasteurizers, membrane systems evaporators and dryers.

Physical Requirements:

• Occasional ascending and/or descending of ladders and stairs using feet and legs and/or hands and arms on a regular basis. Body agility is emphasized.
• Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances on a regular basis.
• Sitting for extended periods of time at a computer.
• Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, drag, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word.  Includes activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Subject to up to at least 92db’s.