Regional Senior Project Engineer Job

Job Description

Division : Bostik

Location:  Americas – Middleton, MA, King of Prussia, PA or Louisville, KY

Job title:

Regional Senior Project Engineer – DG and AP

Reports to AMERICAS Operations Director, DG/AP

Job dimensions (Scope and Responsibility)

• Capital project engineering for all DG/AP sites in US and Mexico, buildings and process equipment
• Design, construct and install capital projects according to all applicable internal and external codes, construction standards, safety standards and procedures
• Typical project work load is 1 to 5 capital projects up to $10 million or more
• Provide engineering support for Management of Change of buildings, sites and process equipment
• Provide engineering support as part of the capital management process, including stage gate requirements
• Define and write equipment definitions for RFQ and PO requirements as part of purchasing process
• Issue PO’s according to purchase procedure
• Manage the equipment and building installation as part of the capital management process
• Manage and report capital project spending budget to forecast
• Manage and report project work time and travel expenses budget to forecast
• Senior Project Engineer will peer review other projects to relevant engineering and project process standards
• Provide process engineering support for projects at sites with no process engineering or resources available
• Support Process Safety Management (PSM) program

Activities (Tasks, Resource, Outcomes)

• Practice safe work habits in accordance with OSHA, EPA and Bostik EHS guidelines and expectations
• Works with plant and BU project teams to support initiatives with capital project engineering
• Assist manufacturing plants in throughput enhancements and efficiency improvements
• Provide cost estimates for capital project planning process
• Provide trouble-shooting support for production issues
• Coordinate with plant maintenance on equipment best-practice maintenance and repairs
• Take part in team based capital projects with commercial team, plant operations, process engineering, finance, quality, Arkema engineering, procurement, supply management and EHS functions.
• Write cost justifications for Authorization of Expenditures
• Take part in drafting and updating internal equipment and construction standards.
• Take part in PHA’s as necessary
• Conduct project commissioning, which includes start-up and validation activities
• Sound process engineering understanding and ability to fill in as process engineer if needed – provide support to smaller sites without dedicated process engineering resource or larger sites depending on resource availability.
• Work directly with external contractors to complete responsibilities as required

Context and environment

The job involves travelling to potentially all the Bostik Us and Mexican facilities and various equipment vendors to design, construct and install capital equipment as part of a multidisciplined project team.  Taking part in the evaluation and selection of equipment vendors and general contractors for all project disciplines and plants.

Accountabilities (Purpose)

• The project engineer is held accountable for the design, construction and installation of the capital project in a way that meets all applicable codes, equipment and building standards as well as safety and environmental compliance.
• All capital projects will be completed in a way that does not compromise the safety of Bostik employees, people of our communities or environments in and around the facilities.

Qualifications / experience required

B.S. Chemical or Mechanical Engineering

Familiarity with Process Safety Management

Understand the application of general chemical plant mfg codes and standards such as OSHA, NFPA, NEC, API, ASME, etc

Strong computer skills, MS Office, AutoCAD, understanding of PLC ladder logic

Team focused mindset

A senior project engineer will have > 7 years of project engineering experience in chemical mfg plant environment managing capital projects > $500K or more

Travel up to 25%, however dependent on project scope and the maturity of the project, may be more during execution phase.