Senior Project Engineer

JOB PURPOSE / OBJECTIVE:

A Senior Project Engineer must be capable to plan, coordinate, and monitor a major project (or any given part) across all EPC phases, with particular focus on Safety, Quality, Cost and Schedule. By doing this they play a key supporting role to the Project Manager to ensure the efficient and effective day-to-day execution of major projects or to act as project in-charge for more minor projects, packages or parts of major projects. Sr Project Engineers must be able to show independent initiative, decision making skills and strong leadership capabilities.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Lead a team for the part/s of the project for which responsibility is given to achieve high performance in safety, quality, schedule and cost compliance

• Co-ordinate / prepare, implement, upgrade, improve and manage any required project related processes and procedures and execution plans.

• Prepare, submit, monitor and control project technical queries and all technical aspects of the project across all interfaces

• Drive towards cost/schedule opportunities and to liaise with the project manager on possible potential areas of risk and be actively involved with mitigations.

• Utilise the risk management system, the risk register and the respective responsibilities assigned

• Involvement in the procurement processes, as needed to ensure smooth flow of procurement engineering through to purchase, expediting and delivery.

• Monitor all elements of work execution and provide input to the planning department as necessary. Manage adjustments and improvements to the execution that are necessary to keep the scope on track.

• Monitor schedule activities to achieve ‘on time’ results including follow up with external sub-contractors and suppliers when required.

• Investigate labour and other productivity variances, report to the project manager and be actively involved in the resolution

• Liaise with the subcontract department to ensure project budgetary and schedule objectives are met.

• Liaise with suppliers, vendors and subcontractors to ensure smooth integration of services with IMI production. In some cases, the role of the Sr PE will be a sub-contract management role, where the Sr PE will be wholly responsible for delivery management of a sub-contractor.