Senior Project Engineer

Mitsubishi Power Americas, Inc. in Lake Mary, Florida is looking for a Senior Project Engineer

 

SUMMARY

 

Mitsubishi Power Americas is a major power generation equipment and storage solutions provider for the energy industry. Our goal is to empower our customers to affordably and reliably combat climate change and advance human prosperity using our technologies. Our products include advanced class gas turbines, hydrogen gas turbines, lithium ion and flow battery technologies, digital solutions, and renewable energy project development. 

 

The Project Engineer leads the engineering and design team, assuming overall responsibility for successful technical project execution. The Project Engineer acts as a liaison between the engineering team, project management and the customer with the responsibility for integrating the various engineering, scheduling, and purchasing aspect of the project in accordance with contract obligations. Familiarity with gas turbine and gas turbine auxiliaries design and construction is required (mechanical, electrical, and I&C). Familiarity with Steam turbine, Generator, and BOP design and construction is desirable.

 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Serves as single point of contact for EPC, Owner’s Engineer, and Customer on all technical issues related to execution of power projects. Interpret and integrate design requirements from parent company or customer (per contract specifications).

• Leads the planning, setup, and monitoring of the project systems (e.g. kick-offs, MDL, DOR, contract deviation list), inter-discipline workflows and coordination of design activities through engineering disciplines as well as resolution of inter-disciplinary issues. 

• Understands the Contract requirements and supports the translation of the scope of work to the discipline engineering teams.  

• Monitors schedules, budgets, and estimates through completion to ensure the project finishes on time and within budget. Leads periodic reviews of engineering execution schedule and budget, expediting of engineering teams (e.g. two-week deliverables look-ahead), escalation of needs (e.g. action items and hot lists) and reporting of project technical delivery status (e.g. monthly reports). 

• Supports Project Managers and Lead Project Engineer in tracking and compiling any design or specification changes and their resultant impacts (e.g. ECNs and contract deviations). 

• Conducts regular meetings with international affiliated companies to ensure successful project implementation.   

• Ability to perform multi-tasks and multidisciplinary communication. 

• Reviews and comments, as required, on project documents and drawings to meet contractual obligations for document flow. 

• Assists in the specification, bid analysis, vendor selection, and capacity assessment for MPWA sourced equipment for Gas Turbine and Combined Cycle Projects. 

• Maintains familiarity with engineering codes as they apply to Combustion Turbines and Auxiliary equipment, including but not limited to, ASME, ANSI, AWS, API, ASTM, NFPA and NEC. 

 

OTHER DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Participate in proactive team efforts to achieve departmental and company goals.  

• Strive for excellence through developing concepts to improve processes and reduce costs. 

• Follow up and resolve any pending items that are found during or remain after completion of Project execution up to the expiration of Warranty period. 

• Collaborates with Global Sourcing, Quality Assurance, and Project Managers in the coordination of vendors/subcontractors. 

• Assist Application Engineering Group in reviewing, and evaluating Customer Specification together with parent company, as necessary. 

• Protect Company confidential information by not communicating, disclosing, or using for benefit of third parties and maintain the highest degree of honesty and integrity at all times. 

• Comply with all safety policies, practices, and procedures, reporting all unsafe activities to Management and/or Human Resources. 

• Contribute to building a positive team spirit. 

• Communicate effectively with all levels of employees. 

• Perform other duties that may be assigned from time to time. 

 

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & EDUCATION

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential funct