Hybrid Project Engineer chez Mt Olive Pickle Company

Description

Summary

A project engineer is responsible for the technical and engineering aspects of a project. He/She will ensure that the project's engineering tasks meet the project's goals, standards, and requirements. This involves planning, designing, coordinating, and executing the project. Project engineers also work closely with stakeholders to ensure the project is completed efficiently, on time, and within budget.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Project      Planning: Developing a detailed plan that includes timelines, budgets, resources, and risk assessments
• Scheduling: Determining      the project schedule by studying the project plan and specifications, calculating time requirements, and sequencing project elements
• Quality      control: Ensuring that all engineering-related tasks align with      project goals, standards, and requirements
• Compliance: Researching      compliance regulations and upholding project standards
• Problem-solving: Identifying, prioritizing, and selecting alternatives for a solution
• Cost      control: Approving expenditures, administering contractor contracts, and managing the project's budget
• Status      reports: Preparing project status reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends
• Maintains      areas of operation in a safe and sanitary manner. Makes effective use of and makes      recommendations on physical assets. Determines that established safety rules, Company policy, and good      housekeeping are followed.

Work Environment

Office, plant, and shop conditions as well as occasional but often lengthy exposure to outside conditions. Long workdays and workweeks required. Access to certain confidential data.

Requirements

Knowledge, Skills, Experience and Abilities.

• Computer      knowledge and efficiency: Microsoft Office products.
• Knowledge      of AutoCAD; Inventor
• Strong      written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent      interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
• Functions      effectively as part of a team.
• Ability      to understand and follow directions.
• Good      time management skills and organizational skills.
• Ability      to read drawings and specifications.
• Bachelor's      Degree – Engineering
• +3 years of food manufacturing experience

Other Duties

Coordinates with other departments to ensure cooperation and timely completion of projects. Communicates and cooperates with other members of management to maintain productive and harmonious working relationships.

Occasionally drives own or company vehicle in performance of some job duties.

Participates in training, employee meetings, committees, project teams, etc. as appropriate.

Receives written and verbal instructions on the above job tasks and performs other duties as directed by Supervisor.

Supervisory Responsibilities 

None

Machines, Equipment, Tools Used

Personal computer, standard office equipment, own or company vehicle.

Physical Demands

Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.

Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.

Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with the fingers rather than with the whole hand or arm as in handling.

Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.

Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas utilizing the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.

Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication.

Light Work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up-to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects. If the use of arm and/or leg controls requires exertion of forces greater than that for Sedentary Work and the worker sits most of the time, the job is rated for light work.

The employee is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as preparing and analyzing data and figures: transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading; visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, and/or operation of machines (including inspection); using measurement devices; and/or assembly or fabrication of parts at distances close to the eyes.