Project Engineer

Job description / Role

Duties and responsibilities:

• Plans, organizes, coordinates and controls projects in accordance with the established policies, procedures, systems, and requirements approved by the company.
• Responsible for timely production of all engineering deliverables.
• Expand work scope definition for engineering design and equipment procurement.
• Establish detailed plans for engineering design development within project established parameters.
• Accurate reporting of the progress and identification of progress constraints requiring action by the project.
• Communicating with project and engineering management to ensure that project expectations are clearly identified and met.
• Review the work performed by engineering disciplines to ensure consistency with project requirements and that appropriate discipline input is included in final documents.
• Demonstrate and reinforce good management principles and behavior to the engineering disciplines.
• Ensure that ideas that improve the project cost/risk position are encouraged and presented to engineering management for consideration.
• Responsible to communicate and reinforce the project principles and key objectives to engineering disciplines.

Key interactions:

• Supervises personnel assigned to the project.
• Has responsibility for day to day contact and communication with the client and focuses on providing client satisfaction.
• Communicates with discipline managers for staffing requirements and the performance of engineers assigned to the project.
• Provide accurate planning information to project control department to finalize baseline project schedule.
• Consult engineering manager / office of chief engineer on complex technical matters.

Qualifications & years of experience:

• B.Sc. (Chemical / Mechanical Engineering) with minimum 10 years of experience in EPC companies after graduation.
• Certification in project management.
• SA experience is a must.

Key skills & technical competencies:

• Possesses knowledge of hydrocarbon plants.
• Shall have knowledge of all engineering integration for plant projects from conceptual stage to final detail design.
• Shall have knowledge of project planning, risk management and control.
• Should have relevant design experience during initial career of 5 years.
• Excellent communication skills to present project scope to project team and clients and to resolve all project issues as per contract.

About the Company

We deliver science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. KBR employs approximately 28,000 people performing diverse, complex and mission critical roles in 34 countries.

KBR is proud to work with its customers across the globe to provide technology, value-added services, and long-term operations and maintenance services to ensure consistent delivery with predictable results. At KBR, We Deliver.