Senior Project Engineer
Job Summary
The Senior Project Engineer will direct and coordinate the engineering and design of assigned projects along with technical aspects of the contract. They are responsible for establishing and managing technical interfaces between all project stakeholders, including customers and subcontractors. Additionally, the role involves providing leadership in technical delivery, risk mitigation, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate engineering and design of projects
- Manage technical interfaces with stakeholders
- Lead technical delivery and project oversight
- Mitigate technical risks and resolve issues
- Ensure regulatory and quality compliance
Required Skills
- BS in Engineering or related STEM field
- 8+ years power industry experience
- Project management and leadership
- Technical aptitude in nuclear systems
- Proficiency in project scheduling tools
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.
Desired Characteristics:
- Nuclear operator license or training certification.
- Knowledge of nuclear business products, business processes, customers, and competitive environment.
- Demonstrated ability in meeting project budget, schedule, and quality commitments.
- Excellent Leadership, influencing, communication, and presentation skills.
- Experience working with Government contracts and contracting requirements.
- Ability and willingness to travel.
- Experience in boiling water or advanced reactors and/or equivalent technical environment.
- Prior experience working with architect engineer / subcontractors.
- IT / Computer competency.
- Proven ability to think strategically, be creative and move quickly.
- Established credibility with peers and managers based on experience.
- Strong technical aptitude, including applicable engineering tools and systems.
- Primavera project scheduling tool experience.
- Graduate of GE leadership program (PMLP, JOLP, or similar).
- Six Sigma training (BB, DFSS, etc.).