Project Engineer

Job Reference 1246195

Location Deer Park, Texas, United States

Industry Process - Chemicals

Function Engineering & Design

Job Type Contract

Date Added August 13, 2024

Airswift has been tasked by one of our major oil & gas clients to seek a Project Engineer to work within their facilities located in Deer Park, TX for a long-term contract.

Within this position, you will be responsible for developing and executing small capital projects to deliver timely, economical, and safe completion. Projects are primarily maintenance replacements. In-house and external design/engineering support is available as needed.

Daily responsibilities:

• Act as the liaison with operations;
• Develop and manage project scopes and schedules;
• Estimate and control costs;
• Determine applicable client and regulatory policies and procedures and assure project compliance;
• Define and coordinate the work of engineering disciplines, both in-house and contract;
• Review and approve drawings including flow sheets, isos, layouts, etc. and vendor submittals;
• Prepare procedures, specifications, and bid packages;
• Specify, requisitions, and expedite materials and equipment;
• Coordinate construction and turn-over to operations; and
• Communicate the design and technical issues to technical and non-technical functions through reports, memos, design documents, and presentations in a manner that is concise, factual and effective. Trains, directs, and reviews the work of lower level technical staff.
• Recommend action to improve the quality of the engineering function and working on new engineering methods.

Previous education and experience required:

• Graduate engineer with 5+ years or more of project engineering experience.
• Minimum 3 years' experience in chemical or petrochemical plant
• Responsible for assuring that capital, operating and engineering costs are optimized, that all work is completed as scheduled and meets all environmental, health, safety, legal and code requirements.
• Must be capable of handling multiple assignments with project ranging in size from $50K to $6MM.