Project Engineer

12 months contract with possible extension

Location: Niagara Falls, ON

Responsibilities:

• Lead and coordinate scope definition, cost-benefit analysis, design, testing, implementation, and support.
• Evaluate alternative solutions to identified problems and prepare associated assessment-grade cost estimates.
• Complete or oversee detailed process and other engineering design work.
• Prepare project-planning packages to support funding requests, including:
• Definition-phase cost estimates
• Resource-loaded project schedules
• Project execution plans
• Project risk registers
• Appropriate safety and hazard reviews
• Project Execution and Management
• Manage projects within established deadlines and budgets, partnering with key stakeholders to execute project plans.
• Ensure workstreams and functions understand Business Readiness stage-gate deliverables.
• Coordinate change management and employee engagement, including business-process redesign and training.
• Keep management informed of project status through ongoing communication and presentations.
• Support company and corporate projects or initiatives by providing business-process knowledge, facilitation, leadership, and system-development experience.
• Advocate for projects through funding approval and manage procurement and contracting.
• Lead project execution, including field supervision of construction activities, while ensuring safe work practices for contractors and field personnel.
• Ensure completed projects are properly handed over to the operating unit, and final documentation is completed.
• Own assigned projects and deliver the agreed scope on time and within budget, with no safety or environmental incidents.
• Propose manufacturing processes or utility systems upgrades and operational improvements as part of annual capital budgeting.
• Preferred Candidate Experience
• Completed projects in chemical processing or manufacturing facilities handling hazardous materials, including corrosives, flammables, and pyrophorics - for example, oil and gas, petrochemical, or chemical facilities.
• Familiarity with the Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS).
• Experience in both batch and continuous chemical-process environments.
• Experience implementing projects where manufacturing systems interface with a Distributed Control System (DCS).
• Direct supervision of contractors across disciplines during project work in an operating chemical manufacturing facility.
• Experience starting up and commissioning new systems or units after project completion.
• Experience in process design or supervision, and implementing Process Safety Management requirements or recommendations arising from Process Hazard Analyses.