Sr Project Engineer

Cabot Corporation

• $95K — $115K *
Pampa, TX 79065In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS in Engineering (Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical, Controls, or Instrumentation)
  • 5+ years of project execution experience
  • Strong understanding of engineering theories and principles
  • Excellent verbal, written, and presentation communication skills
  • Demonstrated project team leadership across multiple disciplines
  • Critical thinking and long focus capabilities
  • Effective troubleshooting skills in a plant environment

Responsibilities

  • Provide leadership during all phases of plant engineering projects
  • Coordinate interdisciplinary activities during the conceptual phase
  • Prepare project estimates and schedules through collaboration with project controls
  • Marshaling engineering resources to fulfill project deliverables
  • Ensure all project documentation is maintained and approved as necessary
  • Identify opportunities and establish project objectives within teams
  • Report and manage all project functions and cost data accurately

Benefits

  • Dynamic, flexible, and collaborative team environment
  • Opportunities for personal and professional growth
  • Engaging in meaningful work with a positive global impact
  • Competitive benefits package including vacation
  • Commitment to open and direct feedback
  • Supportive team atmosphere prioritizing employee well-being
Full Job Description
How You'll Make an Impact:

Using your knowledge, skills and abilities, you will provide project leadership during all plant engineering project phases. This role requires a self-motivated person with a positive attitude, strong organization skills, and urgency to make things happen. A successful candidate will be someone who can:

Provide project leadership during all plant engineering project phases.

o During Conceptual Phase (Opportunity and Alternatives Analysis), responsible for coordinating engineers' activities with other disciplines and departments.

o Responsible for preparing or working with project controls to prepare factored estimate and milestone schedule.

o During Front End Engineering and Detailed Design, responsible for marshaling and coordinating internal engineering resources, external engineering resources, and divisional departments to complete required deliverables.

o Primarily responsible for Project Execution Plant, Project Scope of Work, Project Objectives, and Project Design Basis.

o Responsible for ensuring that deviations from these documents are noted and approved (if necessary) and documents are kept up to date.

Work within project teams to identify opportunities, establish project objectives, identify alternatives, and solicit funds for all phases of project and report deviations on scope, cost, or schedule.

Be responsible for all project reporting functions.

Develop project scope, cost and schedule.

Work with Accounting and Finance to ensure project cost data is correct and reliable, items are expensed or capitalized correctly and timely, and projects are closed out in a timely fashion.

Approve vendor and contractor invoices for payment.

Be responsible for providing Engineering/Maintenance Manager with input on internal time sheet charges by either Engineering or Maintenance personnel.

Be responsible for ultimate design decisions, division of responsibilities, establishment of procedures / formalities / policies, establishing selection criteria/approvals, bidding versus sole source, shop verses field fabrication, etc.

Work with local, state, and federal regulation bodies, and company insurance carrier engineer, to ensure project compliance with these codes and standards.

Provide timely reporting of cost, schedule, and milestones achieved for each project on backlog.

Support efforts to implement and maintain the Responsible Care® Management System in line with the requirements of the RC14001® technical specification, as applicable to the site/region.

What You'll Bring to Cabot:
• BS in Engineering discipline (Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical, Controls and instrumentation).
• 5+ years project execution experience.
• Ability to focus for long periods of time
• Strong knowledge of engineering theories and principles.
• Excellent communication, verbal and written, and presentation skills are a must.
• Excellent plant troubleshooting skills.
• Must be able to lead project teams with multiple disciplines and multiple departments.
•• Demonstrated Critical Thinking skills
• Ability to complete all essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.

How We'll Support Your Success:

  • Dynamic, Flexible, Hard Working, Team Environment - We are busy, collaborative, growing, and we are doing really meaningful work.
  • Growth - Great training, great peer coaching and support, and the ability to personally grow your influence, your position, and your compensation.
  • Meaningful Work that is Valued - The work we do is visible, and is helping to create a more abundant, affordable, and cleaner energy future. It is an awesome feeling to know you're making a living by making a positive impact in the world; and to be able to say, "I was a part of that."
  • Benefits, Vacation, Etc. - We offer a competitive package of benefits.
  • Feedback - we are committed to giving and receiving feedback in a direct and open fashion.
  • Support - you are part of a team and deserve to feel encouraged and supported. Our employees are the lifeblood of our business. You will be part of a team that cares about you personally and professionally. Our success depends on your success.

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