Mechanical Engineer IV

Mechanical Engineer
Contract Position
Duluth, MN OR Houston, TX - 80% office 20% in the field
$60.00 - $70.00 per hour based on matching experience.
Plus medical, dental, vision, PTO, Paid holidays, 401 with company match after 90 days.
Description
Oversee the design for Liquids Pump station facilities for expansion and maintenance capital projects executed by third party engineering firms to ensure compliance with Company standards, specifications and industry standards and managed to the project budget and schedule.
Liaison with other functional groups within Project Execution, Operations, and Shared Services to ensure project and company requirements are achieved and incorporated into the design deliverables.
Working with multiple project teams field-based working with multiple project teams

• Project Managers - Weekly interaction to provide updated status on progress, cost, schedule, and risk.
• Supervisor, Facilities Project Engineering - Daily interaction to address project issues and problems.
• Manager, Facilities Project Engineering - Weekly interaction to provide project status update.
• External Engineering Firm - Daily interaction to provide oversight on project design activities.
• Operations - Weekly interaction to provide project status update and seek guidance on required design features.
• Scoping projects or supporting procurement, construction, and commissioning activities
• Time sensitive deliverables

Specific Accountabilities:

• Ensures that all pump station facilities are designed in accordance with all regulations, applicable industry codes and corporate standards.
• Defines the scope, schedule, and budget for the design and materials for pump station facility projects.
• Manages the execution of the design deliverables by a third party engineering firm against the project budget and schedule.
• Reviews and approves design deliverables, for example drawings, technical reports and material listing sheets.
• Participates in design review meeting with engineering firm, Project Manager, Operations, and Construction personnel to discuss the scope, design, and expected performance as well as work out constructability issues.
• Reviews vendor materials quotations, prepares technical evaluations, and recommends selections based on technical merit along with price and delivery. For example: pump and motor equipment, vessels, buildings, generators, pipe, valves and fittings.
• Reviews lessons learned from past projects and incorporates recommendations into future designs.
• Actively identifies and communicates new lessons learned and quality incidents for assigned projects.
• Support department initiatives as required.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Civil, or other related Engineering field.
• Minimum of 4 years of industry experience
• Work requires strong computer skills typically using Microsoft Office applications

Preferred:

• Capable of working independently, managing multiple projects and prioritizing tasks accordingly
• Problem solve issues through use of standards, modification of standards and/or previous experience
• Effectively communicates technical issues and impacts to other technical and non-technical staff

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