Corporate Senior Project Engineer (St. Paul, MN)

Job Description

Job Overview:

Reporting to the Director of Corporate Engineering, this position is responsible for supporting the corporation’s efforts in building a strong project execution foundation, ensuring industry best practices and engineering standards are upheld.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s 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 hands-on engineering support at our manufacturing/distribution facilities.
• 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.
• Hybrid schedule: Onsite Minnesota office work required for at least 3 days per week and up to 2 days remote work approved.
  
  

Essential Function:

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.
  
  

Other Duties: Please note this job description is not a comprehensive listing of all duties, activities, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. For example, Corporate Senior Project Engineers may need to perform process engineering design activities.

Competitive Benefit package that includes: competitive salary, Medical Benefit Plan Options, Dental Plan, Vision Plan, Flexible Benefit Plan, Short Term and Long Term Disability Plans, 401K Plan that includes matching.