WHAT DOES A PROJECT ENGINEER DO?
Updated: Dec 18, 2025 - The Project Engineer designs and manages mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems while overseeing project drawing reviews and installations. This position collaborates with various departments to implement new products, enhance efficiencies, and improve facility capabilities. The engineer also develops documentation, troubleshoots technical issues, and optimizes production machinery, equipment, and automated control systems.


A Review of Professional Skills and Functions for Project Engineer
1. Project Engineer Accountabilities
- Project Management: Manage the delivery of a work package associated with a project or a small material supply project, with minimal supervision.
- Invoicing Management: Set up project timesheet and invoicing and work with finance to issue purchase orders.
- Documentation Management: Determining documentation requirements for projects.
- Technical Report Preparation: Preparation of technical report writing, site report writing, and FAT procedures and reports.
- Vendor Site Inspections: Attend third-party vendor sites for quality/FAT inspections.
- Risk Assessment: Preparation of site acceptance test procedures, risk assessments, and method statements.
- Project Issue Resolution: Participate in meetings and help to resolve client, engineering, and project issues.
- Query Resolution: Provide ad hoc support on general queries relating to projects, engineering, and software.
- Travel for Project Support: Regular travel to provide project support (including offshore).
- Company Representation: Act as an ambassador for the Company, always conducting oneself following Deepwater Corrosion Australasia's expectations.
2. Project Engineer Details and Accountabilities
- Drawing Creation: Create drawings, engineering documentation, calculations, and other engineering requirements for each project.
- Sales Collaboration: Collaborate with the Sales Department to ensure customer technical requirements are fulfilled.
- Product Design: Support new product design activities within the product portfolio.
- Project Support: Support the project manager to ensure the project deliverables are on time and within the prescribed budget.
- Technical Support: Provide technical support to production personnel in troubleshooting, problem-solving, and process improvements.
- Product Maintenance: Maintain and revise current filtration products including component drawings, literature, and marketing materials.
- Cost Analysis: Analyze, provide recommendations, and implement component and product cost efficiencies.
- Industry Awareness: Maintain awareness of industry advances in the engineering field through formal education, technical seminars, and/or product design exhibitions.
- Cultural Practices: Regularly communicate and demonstrate the Eaton best practices, ethics, values, and philosophy such that these cultural attributes are incorporated throughout the organization.
- Goal Setting: Foster an environment that promotes Eaton’s goals and philosophy, encourages continuous improvement, and builds customer relationships.
- Global Adaptability: Work in a fast-paced global environment, dealing with diverse viewpoints and cultures, with a focus on process-driven continuous improvement.
3. Project Engineer Role Purpose
- Project Management: Effectively manage projects, including establishing detailed and defined scopes, bid packages, and timelines.
- Accountability: Identifying key accountabilities and providing guidance to keep projects on track and within budget.
- Design Leadership: Lead design and engineering of major projects using third parties to fulfill objectives.
- Plant Consultation: Consult with and obtain plant agreement on the final design.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Consult with other functions, internal and external, such as safety, accounting, quality, insurance, etc., concerning engineering phases.
- Documentation: Provide design documentation for equipment and control systems before, during, and after project implementation.
- Process Control: Manage plant process control strategy, architecture, and systems.
- System Integration: Lead integration efforts to implement standardized control systems.
- Equipment Selection: Evaluate, select, and purchase major equipment, consulting firms, and construction contractors.
- Function Coordination: Coordinate functions ranging from initial design, purchasing, outside engineering, material expediting, and construction.
- Scheduling: Schedule with plant operations to minimize production losses and meet project deadlines.
- Contractor Management: Manage contractors throughout the construction and commissioning process.
- Technology Awareness: Keep informed on new technology and equipment for new projects and facility improvements.
4. Project Engineer Key Accountabilities
- Hazard and Safety Reviews: Complete Hazard reviews (PHA’s) and Safety reviews for new and existing projects.
- Regulatory Compliance: Complete adherence to Elementis health, safety, and environmental rules and regulations.
- Engineering Interface: Contracted engineering interfacing to assure comprehensive and effective design, utilizing Elementis engineering standards where possible.
- Process Equipment Support: Provide problem-solving and support of plant process equipment including process control systems.
- Project Objective Development: Develop project objectives by reviewing project proposals and plans and conferring with management.
- Regulatory Compliance: Maintain product and company reputation by complying with federal and state regulations.
- Team Contribution: Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results.
- Cost Estimation: Develop and assemble project cost estimates and drive decisions most fitting for the business case.
- Contract Development: Facilitate the development of contracts and agreements by coordinating with the legal department.
- Risk and Safety Assessment: Lead and facilitate project risk, reliability, and safety assessments.
- Project Reporting: Prepare project status reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends and recommending actions.
- Funding Requests and Forecasting: Prepare and present project funding requests and develop and control spending forecasts.
5. Project Engineer Details
- Project Design Leadership: Lead the project design delivery involving multidisciplinary items for substation, E-House, and Mobile S/S projects (Primary, Secondary, Mechanical, etc.).
- Design Interface Management: Proactively manage the design interface between all design disciplines and oversee and coordinate internally and externally sourced designs.
- Site and Engineering Studies: Conduct site visits/engineering studies to collect necessary input information for the design.
- Design Calculation Review: Prepare and/or review design calculations for equipment/cable/earthing/lightning protection, etc., within the targeted financial and schedule constraints.
- Design Review Participation: Participate in design review/technical clarification meetings with the customer, internal departments, and suppliers.
- Customer Approval: Ensure timely approval of the design from the customer.
- Drawing Issuance: Facilitate issuance of IFC drawings concerning customer comments and final as-built drawing submission.
- Bill of Quantities (BOQ): Identify the bill of quantities (BOQ) for ordering items related to primary and secondary engineering.
- Technical Point of Contact: Represent the project as the key point of contact for all technical matters.
- Electrical System Evaluation: Evaluate electrical systems, products, components, and applications by their design and conduct review and brainstorming sessions.
- Subject Matter Expert Coordination: Coordinate subject matter experts for the development of integrated technical solutions to achieve efficient outcomes.
- Customer Requirement Alignment: Ensure designs meet customer requirements and that all areas of design align with project requirements.
- Design Optimization: Ensure optimized design and project delivery by leading the development, implementation, and continual improvement of design coordination processes and standards.
6. Project Engineer Duties
- Technical Studies: Studies with a technical or scientific focus (physics, mechanical engineering, mechatronics, precision engineering, technical optics, or similar).
- Systems Interaction Understanding: Excellent understanding of the interaction of complex components of optics, mechanics, electronics, and control engineering with practical experience in handling such systems.
- Optical Design Prototyping: Ability to prototype and test own optical designs.
- Cross-Disciplinary Problem Solving: Hands-on and willing to cross discipline boundaries to solve a problem.
- Motivation and Organization: High motivation, independence, and organizational skills.
- Optical System Development: Develop optical systems with a focus on imaging of biological samples.
- Component Design: Design corresponding components, and modules, and derive specifications.
- System Improvement: Develop and improve existing optical systems.
- System Requirements Management: Manage challenges such as narrow installation space and complex system requirements.
- Rapid Prototyping: Utilize optical cage systems and 3D printers for rapid prototyping.
- Prototype Setup: Setup prototypes, including characterization and validation.
- Technology Implementation: Implement cutting-edge optical technologies.
- Team Collaboration: Work with dedicated, interdisciplinary project teams across disciplines.
7. Project Engineer Responsibilities
- Project Management: Provide overall management, direction, and accountability on assigned projects.
- Energy Savings Calculation: Calculate energy savings for various system or equipment changes using existing calculation tools, spreadsheets, statistical models, and/or accepted methodologies.
- Client Engagement: Engage with clients at their industrial locations to understand equipment and operations and identify energy efficiency opportunities.
- Client Relationship Management: Foster and grow client relationships and identify opportunities for generating additional work.
- Report Writing: Write energy efficiency feasibility and project reports based on analyses and observations.
- Data Documentation: Document performance through data collection from customer sources or installed data logging equipment.
- Modeling and Optimization: Conduct Excel-based modeling and optimization of industrial systems (refrigeration, compressed air, fans, and pumps).
- Peer Mentorship: Provide peer mentorship through technical discussions and work reviews.
- System Commissioning: Commissioning existing systems or newly installed projects to maximize energy performance.
- Utility Program Participation: Work within various utility and public demand side management programs.
- Recruitment for SEM Programs: Participate in recruiting activities to promote industrial energy efficiency program participation.
- Strategic Energy Management: Assist with the delivery of utility-sponsored strategic energy management (SEM) programs.
- Technical Communication: Discuss or explain complex technical issues with a diverse audience on their level to facilitate understanding and consensus.
- Budget and Performance Tracking: Track program budgets and performance metrics for DSM clients.
8. Project Engineer Job Summary
- Asset Renewal Management: Delivering asset renewal projects, maintenance, and external projects covering general earthworks, formations, bridges, culverts, level crossings, and other rail-associated works.
- Project Monitoring: Monitoring the implementation of projects by applying contractor management principles, maintaining programs and budgets, and coordinating reviews for forecasting and corrective actions.
- Technical Support: Providing technical and engineering support to stakeholders, including investigating, reporting, and documenting work practices and incidents.
- Project Planning: Developing project plans that include cost estimates, resource requirements, activity programs, and cash flow projections.
- Risk and Method Advisory: Providing advice on project planning, risk assessments, and development of construction methods and procedures when required.
- Stakeholder Liaison: Initiating and maintaining on-site liaison and relationships with divisions, various authorities, and members of the public involved with contract works.
- Design Implementation Review: Reviewing the implementation of the design and checking the correct component rates.
- Standardization: Ensuring continuous standardization to promote the reusability of developed technical solutions.
- Tool Cooperation: Cooperating with other teams to ensure the best use of available tools (e.g., software) to enhance efficiency and minimize errors.
- Design Optimization: Continuously optimizing the design to meet updated standards, lower costs, and incorporate new products, components, and functionalities.
9. Project Engineer Additional Details
- System Design Participation: Participate in the design of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems and equipment specifications alongside third-party design professionals.
- Drawing Review Management: Manage project drawing review process for all design, bid, and construction sets.
- System and Equipment Design: Participate in growing system design and installation, packaging equipment design and installation, facility construction, and utilities.
- Cross-Department Collaboration: Collaborate with multiple departments (Operations, Growing, Facilities, IT, Construction, Food Safety, Sustainability) to complete projects introducing new products and improving efficiencies.
- Project Documentation: Provide necessary documentation to end users at project completion, including drawings, SOPs, manuals, etc.
- Machinery Design Improvement: Design modification and improvement of production machinery and equipment to enhance safety, quality, and cost.
- Technical Troubleshooting: Troubleshoot and solve technical problems with production machinery, equipment, regulatory guidelines, and processes.
- PLC Control Systems: Design, build, program, and commission PLC control systems in the automated greenhouse.
- Component Sourcing: Work with the team to specify and source off-the-shelf electrical and pneumatic components.
- Scope Delineation: Effectively delineate furnish and install scope between vendors, contractors, and owner.
10. Project Engineer Responsibilities and Key Tasks
- Product/Process Implementation: Assist with or coordinate various aspects of new or revised product/process/equipment, and system implementation.
- Leadership Role: Perform a leadership role in a project team, providing technical guidance to less experienced engineers and technicians.
- Effective Communication: Communicate effectively with all levels of the organization, particularly internal customers and suppliers.
- Goal Commitment: Demonstrate commitment to meeting and supporting departmental, divisional, and company goals/objectives/strategies.
- Report Preparation: Demonstrate good report preparation, presentation, and listening skills.
- Project Management: Create project plans and successfully manage/oversee projects through completion in a timely fashion.
- Excel Proficiency: Use Microsoft Excel for improving operations, problem-solving, and presentations/project management.
- Respectful Leadership: Demonstrate a high regard for people by treating them with dignity, respect, fairness, and consistency.
- Teamwork Example: Set a good example of behavior, attitude, and teamwork both within and between departments.
- Adaptability: Adapt to changes, show commitment to change, and continuous improvement.
11. Project Engineer Duties
- ISC Feasibility: Provides Integrated Supply Change (ISC) feasibility perspectives linked with the specific project scope, mainly for growth, productivity and infrastructure
- Capital Planning: Identifies the capital and capital-related expenses, optimum layout, equipment and phasing over time to meet the project scope objectives
- Stakeholder Governance: Manages communications interface and project governance within Integrated Supply Chain (ISC) and key stakeholders
- Team Leadership: Leads a cross-functional project team at the plant level
- Lean Execution: Ensures the successful execution of the projects in accordance with Integrated Lean 6 Sigma (IL6S) by leveraging Innovation Initiative Management (IIM) principles,
- Productivity Improvement: Identifies cost-effective, high savings productivity solutions and develops projects to improve performance, product quality, safety and sustainability, field and manufacturing cycle times
12. Project Engineer Details
- Contract Review: Review project specifications and contracts
- Order Validation: Review order specifics before entry, ensuring technical accuracy
- BOM Control: Manage technical changes to the bill of materials
- Drawing Coordination: Coordinate and interpret plant drawings
- Submittal Management: Leverage centralized resources for the creation of submittal packages
- Warranty Resolution: Close all warranty issues
- OandM Review: Review operations and maintenance of materials
- Customer Communication: Ensure accurate information flows to and from the customer promptly
13. Project Engineer Responsibilities
- Installation Supervision: Preparation works before installation, new equipment installation supervision, production start-up, commissioning and handing over to the process owner
- Project Management: Responsibility for investment projects management according internal procedure
- Budget Control: Project budget control, ensure project quarter spending according to the actual CAPEX plan
- Operator Training: Ensure operators' training in cooperation with the Continuous Improvement department
- Technical Documentation: Equipment technical documentation, operating and cleaning instructions were passed to the process owner
- Asset Registration: Document preparation for equipment incorporation into tangible property
- Warranty Coordination: Coordinate a complaint procedure during the warranty period
- Sustainable Management: Sustainable development in Project management, process knowledge in the confectionery area and the actual trend of equipment for confectionery production
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Cooperate with QA and Manufacturing in the development and implementation of new initiatives
- Regulatory Compliance: Ensure compliance with all internal guidelines and external regulations
14. Project Engineer Accountabilities
- Scope Development: Develops scopes of work, cost estimates and budgets
- Engineering Design: Performs conceptual through detailed engineering, including coordination with internal design and drafting functions and third-party support firms
- Bid Management: Prepares bid documents and coordinates with the Purchasing Department from the bidder and vendor invitation through selection
- Construction Management: Manages, directs, coordinates and expedites construction and maintenance projects at terminals and pipeline facilities
- Cost Control: Maintains timely project cost control and record keeping
- Management Advisory: Provides advice to management regarding construction and maintenance projects
- Stakeholder Representation: Represents TransMontaigne with outside entities and agencies during project execution to ensure continuity throughout the project lifecycle
- Schedule Planning: Creates project schedules in collaboration with management, reviews production performance and makes adjustments to maintain schedules
- Progress Reporting: Provides management with progress status reports on all projects
- Safety Compliance: Ensures compliance with TransMontaigne safety standards for all construction and maintenance projects and conducts contractor safety meetings
- Regulatory Compliance: Ensures compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards for assigned projects
- Startup Support: Provides operations support during systems startup and troubleshooting
15. Project Engineer Functions
- Project Management: Manage customer projects from specification to homologation in coordination with other teams
- Customer Insight: Understand the customer's technical organization
- Process Coordination: Coordinate the use of tools and processes for internal projects
- Technical Collaboration: Work on collaboration with Technical Consultants using industrialization tools to define the data interface and customer profiles including the electrical, graphical, packing and packaging requirements
- Technical Support: Responsible for providing technical support to internal and external stakeholders on any BAP project
- Schedule Delivery: Deliver engineering cards according to the schedule and specifications
- Multi-Sourcing: Follow up on multi-sourcing and porting projects implemented by the multi-sourcing team
- Project Support: Responsible for providing technical support for their projects
16. Project Engineer Overview
- Program Communication: Responsible for clearly communicating the status of ongoing activities, identifying emerging program requirements, risks and developing mitigation plans where misalignments exist
- Requirements Definition: Participating in cross-functional teams to define requirements for new facilities
- Documentation Coordination: Participating in various coordination meetings, leading and or assisting in the development of documentation for new requirements
- Program Efficiency: Work to increase the speed and efficiency of the program by supporting the timely delivery, quality and clarity of program performance data and schedules to support the company’s business decisions
- Progress Monitoring: Collaborate with counterparts across the enterprise to develop new or improved methods of monitoring progress and implementing change
- Project Coordination: Assist in obtaining, evaluating and coordinating all information needed to construct the project in accordance with the contract within schedule requirements, and is constructed to the highest level of quality possible
17. Project Engineer Details and Accountabilities
- Utility Design: Designing and coordinating new, upgraded, or relocated overhead and underground utility lines for electric and or fiber
- Construction Documentation: Creating construction documents and investigating utility issues
- Permit Management: Obtaining permits, easements, and construction agreements
- Project Oversight: Overseeing project progress to ensure schedules and budgets are met
- Stakeholder Communication: Communicating with members, construction crews, and the public throughout projects
- Pole Attachment: Determining pole attachment requirements
- Outage Response: Serving on a team to address after-hours outages
18. Project Engineer Tasks
- Project Coordination: Attend construction meetings on specific projects and keep personal project notes
- Service Liaison: Communicate and act as a liaison between internal and external service providers
- Scope Development: Develop project scope requirements and coordinate response from outside vendors
- Decision Analysis: Influence decision-making by providing analysis and recommendations
- Issue Auditing: Audit projects for any outstanding issues and follow up with the service provider for ETA of completion
- Customer Responsiveness: Ensure immediate needs are met and attentive responses to the requester are performed
- Process Improvement: Establish systems and processes to increase communication efficiency, streamline processes and collaboration between all teams involved
- Stakeholder Alignment: Acquaint project managers, vendors and business partners on the organization’s responsibilities through presentations and meetings
- Training Development: Continually develop and update training material
- Team Training: Train and support new team members
- Professional Conduct: Work well and respectfully with people at all levels
- Workload Planning: Prioritize workload and schedule accordingly
- Autonomous Leadership: Work autonomously, direct others and inform the group as decisions are made
- Vendor Support: Assist vendors with problem-solving, advising and navigating obstacles
- Data Analysis: Research analyzes information and data to make recommendations to management
19. Project Engineer Roles
- Task Management: Manage specific tasks assigned by organizing, controlling and reporting
- Team Communication: Ensure effective communication across various internal project members to allow the timely exchange of the information required to perform assigned tasks
- Decision Delegation: Ensure that delegation throughout the team enables quick and well-informed decision-making while maintaining an appropriate level of control
- Objective Alignment: Cascade the Project objectives and targets to the Project team and ensure they are well understood
- Issue Resolution: Coordinate resolution of issues
- Change Control: Ensure the Management of Change process is followed
- Status Reporting: Report regularly all key information to the Project Manager
20. Project Engineer Additional Details
- Project Leadership: Provide leadership for assigned project(s), and ensure successful completion of the assigned project(s) as per Project objectives and strategies, functional scope and appropriation requirements
- Stakeholder Coordination: Coordinate with various stakeholders and leverage functional expertise to ensure the project meets safety, quality, cost and schedule objectives
- Safety Implementation: Lead implementation and verification of safety processes and procedures to ensure the Project Safety Plan and site SSHE expectations are met
- Execution Planning: Engage in execution plans, SSHE Plan and contracting and procurement strategies development and implementation
- Contractor Oversight: Monitor and appraise contractor organization, planning, execution and controls, and drive improvement plans to close performance gaps
- Functional Integration: Coordinate and direct project, business, manufacturing and functional support to ensure timely reviews and resolution of technical queries
- Issue Resolution: Identify project issues and execute appropriate actions to resolve
- Stage Transition: Support transitions between project stages while ensuring compliance with ExxonMobil standards and processes
- Procurement Support: Support procurement activities including materials requisitioning and expediting when required
- Contract Administration: Responsible for contractor administration activities including contract review and support for preparation and negotiation
- Project Closeout: Responsible for project closeout and turnover to the operational organization
- Performance Accountability: Accountable for overall project performance and alignment with local and global processes
21. Project Engineer Essential Functions
- Project Control: Assist with project control activities including project document management, RFI and IB tracking, and contract document review
- Scope Management: Assist in changes to scope, prepare estimates and negotiate new project scope
- Site Coordination: Perform walkthroughs and coordinate with the contractor
- Quality Monitoring: Monitor contract implementation, quality of work and materials
- Work Inspection: Inspect task execution in accordance with the plans and specifications
- Work Planning: Develop, execute, and maintain weekly and monthly project work plans for scope, budget, schedule, and safety objectives
- Meeting Support: Attend meetings and prepare minutes
22. Project Engineer Role Purpose
- Engineering Methods: Evaluates, selects and applies standard techniques and procedures to perform engineering assignments
- Commissioning Support: Provides technical support for testing, installation and commissioning activities
- Proposal Support: Assists in preparing proposal and presentation of engineering projects and programs including bills of materials and estimated engineering hours
- Claims Support: Supports Contract Managers in issuing claims including new or changed scope of work cost impact time impact risk and quantifications
- Work Planning: Creates work plans and cost estimates in own area of responsibility and ensures quality deliverables on time and within targeted cost
- Risk Assessment: Completes risk and opportunity assessments and ensures implementation of resulting actions in own area of responsibility
- Issue Reporting: Reports any contract quality program or cost issues to management along with recommendations for resolutions
- Customer Support: Assists customers on technical issues and interacts with official contacts contractors and other staff within scope of deliverables
- Supplier Coordination: Collaborates with the Supply Chain function to ensure technical requirements for equipment or services are communicated and agreed with suppliers
- Process Compliance: Uses standard processes and tools applicable to own area of responsibility
- Safety Compliance: Ensures engineering activities comply with required safety regulations and contractual requirements
- Team Coordination: Assigns tasks to and coordinates the work of entry level engineers technicians and administrative staff
23. Project Engineer General Responsibilities
- Specification Analysis: Analyze and interpret engineering specifications needed for a project
- Resource Planning: Plan resources for engineering and other technical activities relating to the project
- Project Accuracy: Assure accuracy of overall project plan including design cost estimates, material usage and testing
- Project Control: Responsible for keeping projects on plan, timeline and deliverables both by internal and external resources
- Stakeholder Coordination: Work with internal teams, customers and vendors to facilitate effective communication
- Data Reporting: Prepare reports of project data, evaluate and provide recommendations based on findings
- Continuous Improvement: Lead or contribute input for improvements
- Technical Awareness: Keep abreast of new developments in the fields of engineering design methods and applications
24. Project Engineer Key Accountabilities
- Work Package Delivery: Work with Project Managers and deliver identified Work Packages as agreed with the Project Manager
- Portfolio Management: Manage lead and deliver own portfolio of Work Packages within the ISO9001 accredited project process
- Scope Definition: Develop and agree on the Work Package scope with the client, ensuring the right solution is identified through constructive challenge
- Purchasing Strategy: Develop Work Package purchasing strategies
- Cost Scheduling: Accountable for estimates, schedules and budget forecasts while applying appropriate commercial management procedures
- Interface Management: Manage interfaces with other project team members and key stakeholders
- Objective Leadership: Provide guidance and direction to assure attainment of project objectives
- Resource Management: Manage Work Package resources including construction and external suppliers
- Technical Support: Provide technical expertise to support other Project Managers
- Document Ownership: Ownership of all documents relevant to the Work Packages managed
- Compliance Assurance: Accountable for all engineering, SHE and GxP compliance on the Work Package
- Safety Audits: Work with the construction engineer to ensure SHE tours job freeze audits, investigations and SSOW audits are completed
- Change Control: Ensure compliance with change control procedures
- Risk Assessment: Ensure appropriate project risk assessment
- Financial Governance: Ensure appropriate financial governance processes are implemented
25. Hoist Project Engineer Roles and Details
- Design Philosophy: Create the engineering design concept/philosophy definition
- Engineering Methods: Evaluate, select, and apply standard techniques, procedures and criteria to perform engineering assignments
- Design Approval: Review and approve design deliverables for an engineering discipline and act as the technical lead for that discipline with the client
- Proposal Support: Assist in creating proposals for engineering projects through the provision of bills of materials and estimated engineering hours for own discipline
- Claims Support: Support Contract Manager and project managers in issuing claims (new scope of work, cost impact, time impact, risk quantifications, etc.)
- Work Planning: Create work plans and cost estimates for work in own area of responsibility and proactively manage this work to deliver the agreed program on time, on quality and at the targeted cost
- Risk Assessment: Ensure completion of risk and opportunity assessments and the implementation of resulting actions for own projects
- Issue Reporting: Report early any contract/quality/program/cost issues to management
- Technical Leadership: Act as the ABB technical lead for an underground mining project
- Stakeholder Interface: Interact with customers and officials, contractors, and others
- Meeting Participation: Attend project meetings and present specific aspects of engineering assignments
- Process Tools: Use standard processes and tools applicable to Underground Mining systems
26. Project Engineer Responsibilities and Key Tasks
- Design Integration: Support the design and integration of complex assemblies in accordance with the customer's product development process
- Production Planning: Tracking and planning of production development or prototype components
- Requirements Review: Perform system and component requirements review and compliance assessments
- Design Presentation: Develop and deliver detailed presentations for product design reviews
- Status Reporting: Deliver project status and closure plans to customer engineering and program leadership
- Change Management: Support the closure process of Class I and II engineering changes through the customer's process
- Test Support: Support testing activities, test plans, reports, data analysis, witnessing and setup
27. Project Engineer Duties and Roles
- Design Review: Participate in design reviews and provide constructability inputs
- Work Package Management: Responsible for planning, managing, and progressing the work package from completion of the design phase through to close out and handover
- Budget Estimation: Responsible for the development of internal budgetary estimates and schedules
- Scope Development: Responsible for the development of scopes of work and tender packages
- Bid Coordination: Pre-bid meeting, pre-bid tours and related communication requirements
- Contract Evaluation: Participate in bid evaluations and contract awarding
- Contractor Onboarding: Responsible for contractor onboarding, document submittals and approvals to facilitate mobilization and construction execution
- Construction Execution: Responsible for the execution of construction activities and contractor performance
- Project Compliance: Compliance with scope, schedule, budget, daily and weekly reporting and planning, quality of work, safety and environment
- Risk Resolution: Issues and risk resolution
- RFI Management: Responsible for managing requests for information processes and flow
- Change Control: Responsible for managing compliance with the change order process and procedures
- Deliverable Tracking: Responsible for maintaining, tracking and reporting on project deliverables
- Performance Control: Schedule, cost, quality of work, safety and environmental compliance, issues and resolutions
- Team Alignment: Effectively communicate, lead and align with construction superintendents, construction inspectors, QA QC coordinator, finance, procurement, document control, planning, scheduling and estimator and contractors
- Corrective Actions: Assists the Construction Manager with resolving issues when variance in cost, schedule or quality arises by working with the subcontractors to develop and implement corrective actions
- HSE Compliance: Assists the Mine Manager, H and S Manager, and Environmental Manager in ensuring HSE awareness and compliance by all subcontractors
- Progress Reporting: Prepare monthly reports on work package progress with schedule and budget compliance assessment for delivery to the Construction Manager and Senior Project Manager
- Client Briefing: Participate in status briefings with the client
28. Project Engineer Roles and Responsibilities
- Record Management: Ensure job-specific records are maintained and are current
- Contract Administration: Work with the Project Manager to ensure that all subcontracts and purchase orders are properly executed
- Mobilization Coordination: Assist the Superintendent and Project Manager in arranging for and coordinating all requirements for mobilization
- Quality Compliance: Ensure the project administration meets the Quality requirements
- Drawing Coordination: Work with the Project Manager to ensure coordination drawings are completed per Contract documents and submitted promptly
- Project Closeout: Assist the Project Manager in managing closeout activities such as inspections, punch lists, permits, certificates of occupancy and archiving of project files
29. Project Engineer Duties
- Technical Documentation: Processing and transforming technical documentation into electrical schematics and mechanical drawings, according to customer requirements
- Design Coordination: Contact the designers from other ABB destinations in case of a technical issue or missing product documentation
- Revision Control: Ensure the smooth change of revisions in the products
- Production Compliance: Ensure the production process complies with customer requirements
- Line Startup: Startup of new production lines including facilities, instruments, assembly instructions, training and tests
- Production Support: Provide support to Production during internal and external processes and equipment start-up
- Process Innovation: Evaluate new process technologies to improve productivity, quality and cost reduction, defining and leading testing activities
- Supplier Evaluation: Support the Planning and SCM team in preparing RFQs to suppliers and evaluating the technical aspects of offers
- Supplier Consulting: Consult suppliers on ABB requirements
30. Project Engineer Details
- Project Follow-Up: Follow up on the development of projects
- Engineering Coordination: Coordinate engineering requirements and follow up on adequate closure of HAZOP items and miscellaneous small OPEX projects
- Safety Assurance: Assure that all capital project execution activities are carried out without safety, industrial hygiene and environmental incidents
- Cost Schedule Control: Execute the projects, keeping cost within budget, meeting the established schedule and achieving the best possible quality of materials and workmanship
- Field Supervision: Provide effective field supervision to own and contract personnel working in project execution
- Project Reporting: Prepare periodic reports for all projects
- Corporate Compliance: Assure compliance with corporate guidelines during development, commissioning and training phases of project development and construction
- External Liaison: Maintain a good working relationship with outside engineering resources
- Committee Participation: Participate in meetings as an active member of the refinery and other committees
- Policy Compliance: Comply with company requirements and systems relating to SAPS HSEC Quality and other company policies
- Contract Compliance: Ensure contracts are performed according to company specifications
- CAPEX Control: Assure compliance with controls related to CAPEX expenditure
- Payment Compliance: Ensure compliance with payments and OPEX spent associated with capital investments
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