Position Summary
Responsible for supporting project engineering coordination for capital projects including but not limited to activities related to Project development, execution, and review, including support for close-out projects in construction and/or commissioning. Responsible for project engineering coordination for aftermarket projects. This position assists the technical manager of the capital project, the Project Engineer.
Essential Responsibilities
Project Technical Leader Assistant
- Supports management of the technical aspect of the assigned projects during contract execution.
- Assists technical coordination to Project Team members.
- Review and/or checking of technical scope packages.
- Works and communicates effectively with the Project Engineer, Project Team members, and other departments to achieve project objectives.
- Understand and interpret specification requirements to ensure that they are met during project execution.
- Apply VPI design standards and procedures fully to ensure project success.
- Assist the quick disposition of RFIs, SDRs and NCRs submitted to the Deviation Management System (DMS) by fabricators as well as the site technical advisor or commissioning engineer.
- Tracks status of all project changes until fully implemented.
- Supports project close-out for projects in construction and/or commissioning phase.
Customer Liaison
- Lead technical contact for the customer for those close-out projects assigned by the Project Engineer.
- Attend customer technical meetings as requested to assist PE with resolution of concerns raised by the customer.
Document Control
- Manage the Document Control Automation Program (DCAP) Queue for the project.
- Process incoming vendor and customer documents to ensure that they are reviewed by the proper team members.
- Process outgoing document submittals to the vendors or customers to ensure necessary changes are communicated properly and in a timely manner.
- Review returned document comments and work with team to track and fully resolve.
Administrative
- Development and coordination of project O&M manual as required.
- Participates in and maintains meeting minutes for specification reviews, design reviews, meetings with support personnel, and meetings with the customer.
- Monitors procurement progress for technical scope packages. Completes required fields in TER tracker if requested by PE.
- Takes an active role when working with other PEs to make improvements in cost, quality or efficiency of the department by revising procedures, work instructions or templates.
EBOM
- Review, queue and approve eBOM as requested by the PE.
- Coordinate updates to BOMs with SM and vendors as needed.
Scheduling, Forecasting and Budget Analysis
- Maintain a project's engineering schedule for all assigned projects by coordinating tasks with Discipline Managers and project team personnel in the absence of the PE
- Support maintaining project man-hour forecasts
- Attends engineering meetings providing resource requirements for engineering in the absence of the PE
Job Requirements / Skills, Knowledge And Abilities
- B.S. in mechanical, chemical or metallurgical Engineering or closely related field, preferred. Demonstrated knowledge and technical competency based on past performance may substitute for degree.
- 35 years of experience in project coordination, engineering design, in engineering consultant, EP or EPC company.
- Knowledge of HRSG or Boiler operation, design and construction is an advantage.
- Understanding engineering drawings, specifications, and document control systems.
- Good communication and coordination skills (verbal and written).
- Able to support multi-discipline coordination under supervision of Project Engineer.
- Willingness to learn and grow into a Project Engineer role.
