Job Description
Job DescriptionDescription:
Job Purpose
A Project Engineer is responsible for all technical and engineering aspects of their assigned projects. They plan, schedule, predict, and manage all the technical tasks of their assigned project to ensure accuracy, proper resources, and quality from start to finish.
Duties and Responsibilities
/ Review each project scope of work to identify key milestones, ensure completeness of documentation, ensure compliance with relevant regulations, and to identify any potential challenges related to the project execution.
/ Review customer utility and facility drawings (if available) to assess and ensure the customer’s preparation for furnace installation and/or rebuild.
/ Use mathematics, statistics, dynamics and other engineering disciplines for calculations of structural strength, thermal analysis and performance predictions.
/ Design, test and analyze industrial heat treating and accessory equipment for manufacture to standard and custom designs.
/ Perform analysis as required to insure meeting custom manufactured industrial heat-treating equipment performance and reliability requirements as well as relevant regulations.
/ Originate layouts, concepts, parameters, and designs for new furnaces and/or modifications to existing furnaces.
/ Communicate with vendors where engineering interchange is required to develop specifications for components and processes.
/ Coordinate with engineering, project management, and field service departments at SWC and across the SECO/WARWICK Group (SWG) as needed to ensure timely and efficient furnace/rebuild commissioning.
/ Identify and secure the required contracting services to perform the installation activities as required on a given project.
/ Develop proposal specifications (functional, reliability, cost and fabrication requirements) based on customer and project needs. Conduct technical feasibility studies.
/ Maintain clear communication with customers to ensure a positive experience through regular communications using both written (email, memos, SMS, etc.) and verbal (phone and conference calls, video conferencing, in person meetings, etc.).
/ Maintain project budget through careful management of project expenditures.
/ Identify opportunities for project execution process improvement across teams and SWG companies and report to them to responsible stakeholders.
/ Manage project scope by Identifying change orders and coordinating a response with SWC sales staff.
/ SWC works with an informal management structure, this requires that all staff must take personal responsibility for their own work, provide assistance to other personal when required and notify appropriate staff of any concerns they have in areas that are not their primary responsibility.
/ SWC operates in a truly international environment, with staff and customers from many different countries; all staff are required to be respectful of any cultural, religious or political differences that may exist.
/ Prepare professional quality presentations of design ideas and reports summarizing design efforts and recommendations, and will be responsible for design reviews and information documentation.
/ Occasional travel in the USA and Europe, India, China and other places (by air) may be required often outside normal business hours. Travel could be up to 20% of time.
Qualifications
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
/ Independent problem solving and analysis skills from a technical and team related perspective through a sound engineering background.
/ Well established written and verbal communications skills.
/ Manage time through careful prioritization of tasks
/ Willingness to learn and work in a cross functional technical environment.
/ Basic project management skills pertaining to quality, cost, and schedule management.
/ Ability to read and understand mechanical, electrical, and civil engineering drawings.
/ Basic understanding of the thermal sciences, mechanical sciences, materials, electricity, and industrial controls.
/ Basic CAD skills (both 2D and 3D)
/ Ability to manage challenges in a customer focused environment in a cross functional, multi-national team.
/ Ability and willingness to travel both domestically and internationally (20% of the time).
Training Required
/ SWG Project Management Handbook
/ Solidworks Product Data Management (PDM) software
/ Microsoft Dynamics 365 Field Service
/ Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Business
/ Microsoft Office
/ Basic knowledge of vacuum heat treating equipment and processes
Education and Experience
/ Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering.
/ 3-5 years design, testing, and/or analysis experience of industrial equipment with furnace/heat treatment experience preferred.
/ Must have a high level of interpersonal and communication skills
/ Must have superior customer-oriented attitude, verbal ,and written skills
/ Must possess knowledge of mechanical and electrical systems
/ Proficiency with Microsoft Windows and software applications, including the ability to produce drawings in AutoCAD and Solidworks and create documents with MS Office
/ Must be able to component level design various heat treating systems
/ Able to prioritize and handle many tasks simultaneously and work with minimal supervision
/ Team-oriented, possess a positive attitude and work well with others
/ Flexible and able to work in a fast paced environment
/ Ability to meet at customer national and international sites
Measures of Excellence
/ Support design reviews/technical requests by other SWC staff as required.
/ Identify skill development opportunities for future staff personal development.
/ Develop name recognition by participating in seminars, presenting technical papers, attending trade shows.
/ Expand SWC’s market share through suggestions for strategic market planning, product improvement and cost control.
/ Practice self-education to stay abreast of latest management and sales techniques, and of political and industry affairs that could impact on our market.
Direct Reports
None
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