Job Overview: Reporting to the Director of Corporate Engineering this position is responsible for supporting the corporations efforts in building a strong project execution foundation ensuring industry best practices and engineering standards are upheld along with consistent application of chemical engineering fundamental principles.
Requirements Bachelors degree in chemical engineering.
- 8 years of relevant experience
- Demonstrated ability to develop and track a project plan and schedule projects. (MS project experience preferred). Experience in preparing requests for bids and managing design and construction contracts.
- Demonstrated ability to accurately estimate and track project costs.
- Ability to manage contract resources during capital project execution.
- Ability to lead remote project teams.
- Manufacturing facility experience and willing to provide handson engineering support at our manufacturing/distribution facilities.
- Capability to perform process engineering calculations based on fundamental principles of thermodynamics heat and mass transfer fluid mechanics and other relevant chemical process fundamentals. Typical equipment requiring sizing: lines pumps tanks heat exchangers filters and solids handling equipment.
- Travel approximately 25% to company locations as needed for scope definition design development and project implementation. Willingness to adjust work hours and days to complete critical project tasks.
- Onsite Minnesota office work required.
Essential Functions:
Capital Project Management
- Act as a subject matter expert in capital project management.
- Provide full management of project deliverables achieving project schedule cost and benefit as justified.
- Estimate project costs for capital budgets. Prepare documentation to get funding approval for assigned projects.
- Perform project audits (budget schedule plans performance) and provide recommendations for improvement.
- Create recommend or improve tools and knowledge for project cost estimation.
- Develop project scopes and detailed designs using both company and outside resources.
- Schedule and provide project status updates to senior management.
- Manage activities of 3rd party Engineering companies hired to assist project engineering procurement construction and management.
- Support construction of projects by issuing construction scope bidding installation resources and selecting contractors. Directly or indirectly supervise construction contractors.
- Lead commissioning and startup of new installations.
- Mentor and lead Engineers in capital project management.
Engineering Standards and Engineering Design
- Act as a subject matter expert in engineering design.
- Develop or coordinate the development of FEED and Detailed Engineering design deliverables.
- Perform design calculations to size or optimize facilities equipment.
- Develop and implement calculation methodologies and process engineering practices across all facilities.
- Support the development of engineering competency across all facilities.
- Mentor engineers across all facilities.
- Develop and consistently implement Engineering standards across our manufacturing facilities.
- Monitor compliance to applicable codes practices performance standards and specifications.
- Support our manufacturing facilities.
- Troubleshoot plant operations and support optimization of existing facilities.
- Lead process improvements across facilities.
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