Capital Projects Engineer

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Position Title: 

Capital Project Engineer

 

Pay Rate:

$100,000 - $137,000

Multiple factors, including Individual experience, skills and abilities will determine where an employee is ultimately placed in the pay range.

 

Category/Shift:

Salaried Full-Time

 

Physical Location:

601 County Road 78

Selma, AL. 36703

 

 

The Job You Will Perform:

• Provide visible and active leadership in delivering excellent safety results
• Identify and implement capital solutions to improve safety, reliability, and/or quality issues
• Accountable to deliver success from project development through project implementation
• Engage project customers including business unit and other mill leaders throughout the process to ensure department and mill objectives are addressed and to deliver world class results
• Meet and/or exceed financial and timeline objectives, including start-up and operation at or above project goals
• Manage multiple projects at any given time
• Coordinate project execution and develop strong relationships with regional engineering organization (REO) staff engineers
• Approve design for all engineering phases throughout capital project process
• Review bid proposals and planned work spending to ensure maximum value is achieved
• Support development and execution of multi-year capital plan, as well as ensuring progress vs. plan for timely project completion
• Implement and improve systems necessary to sustain world class capital project processes (e.g. GMS, IP Project Delivery Process, Design for Reliability Process)
• Support 5S program through the lens of project implementation, including design features to support same
• Identify and implement cost reduction strategies that reduce the cost of ownership
• Coordinate with other disciplines to ensure an integrated design that meets the project requirements
• Perform troubleshooting and/or de-bottlenecking of existing facilities to optimize production
• Develop or alter standard project specifications to meet specific project requirements
• Review of design and engineering data (drawings and other documents) to verify completeness and accuracy
• Analyze designs for efficiency of construction, use of materials, integrity and practicality of design
• Review certain vendor / fabricator quotations, shop drawings, and related submittals
• Perform the necessary field work to obtain accurate information for the design
• Provide construction and startup assistance
• Willing to work weekends and extra hours on shutdowns to meet project goals
• Fulfill weekend duty team leadership role for Maintenance or assigned Business Units

 

The Skills You Will Bring:

• Five (5) years post college experience required with project engineering experience preferred.  
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Chemical, Electrical, Mechanical, or Civil) or construction management is required; equivalent practical experience managing capital projects may be considered. 
• Supervisory experience is preferred with preference given to candidates with experience managing a project/maintenance engineering team. 
• Experience working in a fully integrated paper mill is a plus. 

 

 

The Benefits You Will Enjoy:

International Paper offers a benefits package that includes health, welfare and retirement plans including Medical, Dental, Life insurance, Flexible Spending Accounts, Sho