Senior Mechanical Project Engineer
Job Summary
The Senior Mechanical Project Engineer will direct and coordinate the engineering and design of assigned projects, ensuring technical aspects of contracts are met. This role involves managing technical interfaces between engineers, customers, and subcontractors while overseeing project schedules and budgets. The engineer will provide leadership in risk mitigation, design reviews, and compliance with internal and regulatory standards.
Responsibilities
- Manage project technical interfaces and design direction
- Oversee subcontractor engineering work and deliverables
- Identify and mitigate project technical risks
- Monitor project progress, schedule, and budget compliance
- Coordinate Engineering Design Reviews
Required Skills
- 8+ years of power industry experience
- Project management and technical leadership
- Knowledge of mechanical/civil disciplines
- Risk mitigation and strategic planning
- Proficiency in engineering tools and scheduling systems
Job Details
Essential Responsibilities:
- Work with functional engineering teams to build estimates, schedules, and change orders.
- Coordinate and provide technical and delivery leadership for the project.
- Be accountable for engineering interfaces with multiple engineering disciplines, business project management, subcontractors, and customers.
- Provide oversight for subcontractor engineering work on assigned projects.
- Define critical technical project issues and ensure their timely resolution.
- Identify technical risks and implement risk mitigation plans.
- Ensure engineering activities are performed in compliance with customer, internal, and regulatory requirements.
- Support commercial and marketing opportunities for Engineering including generating technical portions of proposals.
- Keep project and engineering management advised of project progress, performance, and resource utilization with particular attention to delays, adverse trends, errors and omissions.
- Work with Chief Consulting Engineers to coordinate Engineering Design Reviews as required for successful completion of the project.
- Review engineering performance on the project to ensure quality, conformance with design process, procedures and completeness of engineering tasks.
- Promptly review Design Change notices, identify change order candidates, segregate cost collection, and assist the Project Manager in pertinent aspects of change order management.
- Perform Responsible Configuration Management reviews as required for assigned projects.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, or Computer Science from an accredited college or university.
- Minimum of 8 years of power industry project management, design, or operation experience.
Eligibility Requirements:
- Work in a hybrid model at one of GEV's hub locations: Markham, ON, Wilmington, NC or Atlanta, GA.
- This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information.