Senior Project Engineer

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Company:Vogt Power International Location:Louisville KY Job Type:Engineering Position Summary:

Join a talented team of engineering professionals at Vogt Power International Inc. Vogt is based in Louisville, KY and specializes in the design, manufacture and supply of equipment and solutions to the power generation industry. We are an industry leader in heat recovery steam generators (HRSGs) with both domestic and international customers.

Responsible for project engineering coordination for the department including, but not limited to activities related to project development, execution, review and approval of requisitions and review bought out equipment technical evaluations. The position also has responsibility and accountability for ensuring engineering schedules, providing engineering man-hour forecasts and engineering budgets on assigned projects. Serve as the technical manager of the project and communicate technical issues with the Project Manager and the customer.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Lead technical contact for the customer on assigned projects. All technical correspondence with the customer will flow through and be reviewed by the PE.
• Attend customer kick-off meeting as well as weekly technical meetings to resolve concerns raised by the customer.
• Formulate and present all RFI's to the customer for quick resolution to allow the project team to meet schedule requirements.
• Advise customer on impacts of change requests.
• Manage the technical aspect of the assigned projects during contract execution.
• Provide technical guidance to Project Team members.
• Review and/or checking of control drawings.
• Work and communicate effectively with the Project Manager, Engineering Discipline Managers and other departments to achieve project objectives.
• Provide on-site support to vendors, and manufacturing when necessary to ensure project success.
• 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.
• Facilitate the quick disposition of all RFIs, SDRs and NCRs submitted to the Deviation Management System (DMS) by fabricators as well as the site technical advisor or commissioning engineer.
• Formulate and communicate the impacts of all project changes to the team incorporating any schedule and design adjustments. Track status of all changes until fully implemented.
• Maintain a project's engineering schedule for all assigned projects by coordinating tasks with Discipline Managers and project team personnel.
• Responsible for developing and maintaining project man-hour forecasts.
• Be prepared to report out to upper management on schedule progress and provide recovery plans for areas where the schedule is behind.
• Attend engineering meetings providing resource requirements for engineering.
• Manage the Document Control Automation Program (DCAP) for the project.
• Process all incoming vendor and customer documents to ensure that they are reviewed by the proper team members.
• Process all outgoing document submittals to the vendors or customers to ensure that necessary changes are communicated properly and in a timely manner.
• Set up and manage the Master Document List (MDL) of customer submittals to ensure that all documents are submitted on time as required by the project specification/contract.
• Review all returned document comments and work with team to track and fully resolve.
• Development and coordination of project O&M manual as required.
• Conduct, participate in and maintain meeting minutes for team meetings, meetings with support personnel, and meetings with the customer.
• Take 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.
• Prepare weekly management reports providing status of projects.
• Facilitate required design improvements/innovation projects based on customer inputs.
• Review sales proposals, RFQ's, proposal schedules and technical reports.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Job Requirements / Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:

Requires a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Chemical, or Metallurgical Engineering, or a closely-related Engineering field, plus 5 years of engineering experience. Total experience must include:

• 2 years of project engineering experience in an industrial setting, and with problem solving to meet customer change requests/specifications/deadlines; and
• 1 year of power industry experience, and with piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs).

Apply to: .... Please refer to job code MG25.

for the open position. Our base pay ranges are set based on the function, discipline, level and regional location and are benchmarked against companies in the same or similar industry. Final offers may vary based on multiple factors, including; education, depth and relevance of work experience, relevant licenses and certifications, and may vary from the amounts listed in the job posting.

The rate of pay for this Senior Project Engineer role is $119,163 annually.