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Mechanical Project Engineer

Hargrove
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 17 Oct 2025

About the role

Who We Are

Hargrove supplies unparalleled services in engineering, procurement, construction management, and technical services in the industrial, commercial, and government sectors. With over 2,700 Teammates in 19 offices domestically and internationally, we build long-term support relationships in the energy generation, manufacturing, research and development, and process-heavy industry in on-site support arrangements, in plant-level small projects and consulting roles, and in larger capital projects.

 

Hargrove’s key operating principle is to provide the Right People, in the Right Place, at the Right Time. We believe that relationships and partnering together provide the best results and long-term benefits for our clients.

 

Work-life balance and flexibility are important areas of focus for Hargrove. We’re happy to discuss flexible working hours, patterns, and locations to suit you and the business.

What You'll Be Doing

Job Scope: The Project Engineer is responsible for all mechanical and electrical related needs as well as leading projects to support two paper machines, power and recovery, pulp, woodyard, recast, and bleaching and sodium hypochlorite plant for the site.

This position will perform as a team member of various project teams where capital improvements have been identified against specific business updates. This role will also serves as a coordinator to drive improvement techniques and implementation strategies.

The selected candidate for this role will need to understand and align business operations and engineering teams in the execution of their role to exceed customer expectations and align with client business, financial, and operational objectives.

Actively leads and participates in the plant safety, housekeeping, and continuous improvement efforts.

Must be comfortable working in an industrial environment. Self-starter and be able to work with minimal management.

This work will be performed under minimal supervision onsite at a Pulp & Paper facility in Augusta, GA.

Primary responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

  • Informing the client of all technical issues, decisions, and problems encountered on project.

  • Coordinating with Client on technical design issues.

  • Coordinating with Project Management Team (PM, Construction Manager, Procurement Manager, Quality Manager, and Project Controls Lead) on execution issues

  • Supporting PM in managing: Engineering budgets and schedule and facilitating identification, estimating and documentation of changes in scope. - Weekly and monthly reporting of engineering status and issues. - The planning, scheduling and forecasting of engineering resources to be employed on the project with the Project Discipline Leads and Department Resource Leaders.

  • Discipline awareness of their man-hours and associated estimate basis as well as the TIC estimate quantities and the tracking against these for the recognition of scope changes as the project progresses.

  • Developing or facilitating development of project specific engineering and design procedures Includes obtaining proper approvals if deviating from Client or Hargrove procedures.

  • Coordinating engineering input for the documents that define the project scope (e.g. Scope & Criteria documents, Engineering Execution Plans supporting the PEP, etc.).

  • Ensuring timely completion of multi-Discipline deliverables including: Line List, Equipment List, Area Classification Drawings, Post-IFD P&ID’s (assuring regular project review of master), and General Arrangement Drawings

  • Leading Inter-Discipline coordination by resolving design issues among/between disciplines.

  • For 3D modeling projects, regularly reviewing the model with a focus on: - gauging the level of timely inter-discipline coordination - considering loss prevention issues that cross disciplines - confirming clash detection is being done and clashes are resolved - Reviewing all design deliverables with particular focus on inter-discipline consistency and adequacy of discipline reviews and approving transmittals prior to issue. - Ensuring overall quality control of engineering work.

Ideal Background

Education: Bachelor or Master of Science degree in Engineering from an accredited university is required.

Registration: Professional Engineering and/or Project Management Professional (PMP) registration is highly preferred but not required.

Experience: This posi

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