Posted 1 month ago

Project Engineer

Company: Jel Sert
Category: Manufacturing/Skilled Trades

 West Chicago

Type: Full Time

Jel Sert is actively seeking a Project Engineer. In this role, you will support the VP of Manufacturing and Engineering and the Director of Engineering while providing technical and administrative leadership in various business areas, including, but not limited to: Assets Management, Capital Management, Change & Improvement of Manufacturing Technology, Change & Improvement of Facilities/Utilities. This role will consist of the following:

  • Support site start-up team and troubleshoot issues when they arise. If required, work with vender technicians to remediate issues.
  • Assist with the development of Engineering Check-out, Equipment Acceptance Testing, Start-up/Validation documents.
  • Develop and maintain project plans and coordinate project activities; track critical path milestones, accomplishments, and results.
  • Ensure that end-to-end project planning, risk identification, dependency tricking, issues identification / escalation, and change management are being managed appropriately utilizing best practice project management standards.
  • Build relationships with senior leaders and other Program/Project owners; interact with, prepare materials for, and present to Senior Management as required.
  • Gather and provide management with needed information and metrics. This will include extracting/comparing/maintaining/analyzing data.
  • Able to work flexible hours and multi-task in a fast paced, dynamic, high-pressured environment – managing changing priorities and tight deadlines.
  • Develop project scopes and detailed project plans.
  • Manages schedules, costs and other key deliverables per the approved project plan.
  • Identifies, assesses and communicates project risks.
  • Measures project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques.
  • Resolves and/or escalates issues to management in a timely fashion.
  • Coordinates internal resources and third parties/vendors for the execution of projects.
  • Coordinates project-initiated training.
  • Effectively facilitates project team meetings.
  • Ensures that forms and records to document project activities are maintained in a project management software database.
  • Establishes a communication schedule to update stakeholders including appropriate staff in the organization on the progress of each project.