Project Engineer

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We are hiring a Project Engineer to join our Spruance Site team located in Richmond, VA.

The Nomex® Project Engineer is the single point of accountability for the end-to-end plant infrastructure programs.  The mix of projects managed via this program will be executed via both capital and expense methods and will total approximately $5,000,000 each year.  This position reports to the Nomex® Unit Leader and partners closely with the Capital Project Team.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Leads cross functional core project teams often consisting of both engineering contactors and mechanical, electrical, and structural contractors to meet business objectives.
• Leads infrastructure core team and facilitates element team meetings for Nomex® Unit.
• Develop the Nomex® multi-year infrastructure program strategy (capital and cost) in conjunction with the core team.
• Accountable for generating and implementing appropriate project execution strategy for design, procurement and construction while ensuring each project’s execution strategy is optimized to suit the specific needs of each project with the goal being to provide a competitive and lean approach with an expedient execution timeline.
• Coordinates with the Spruance Infrastructure Leader as needed to ensure alignment with business, address any needs or concerns, make strategic project decisions, and provide status updates throughout execution of projects.
• Provides leadership for an effective and cohesive team by ensuring roles and responsibilities are clearly understood.
• Ensures applicable project deliverables are accomplished in a quality manner and, for a subset of projects, leads the project gatekeeping reviews.
• Leads the team in identifying non-cap alternatives or lower capital options.
• Ensures excellence in adherence to Process Safety Management (PSM), Safety, Health and Environmental (SHE) excellence, Mechanical Integrity and Quality Assurance (MIQA) requirements.
• Ensures that PHAs and PSSRs are complete and up to date prior to startup of any equipment.
• Facilitates economic evaluations, prepares funding requests, forecasts capital and non-cap expenditures and asset write-offs, and ensures necessary financial reporting and accounting is performed.
• Ensure that project cost estimates are converted into cash flow projections matching the expected project schedule durations. Perform monthly forecast updates for each of your projects.
• Manages project scopes, schedules, and budgets to ensure that each project is completed within +/- 10% of the authorized value.
• Champions the “no change” concept after project authorization; ensures only changes after project authorization consistent with the business and project objectives are approved.
• Responsible for the development and implementation of Project Quality Plans, including auditing work processes and deliverables for compliance, and for meeting agreed upon project quality requirements and expectations.
• Primary DuPont interface with the Full-Service Design Contractors (FSDC) during Front-End Loading (FEL) and Design/Procurement of assigned capital projects.
• Engages with the sites to support the preparation of all documents needed by the FSDC to launch their efforts to complete FEL and execute production design and procurement.
• Champions productivity improvement strategies including High Value Engineering (HVE), Global Competitive Sourcing (GCS) and LEAN Construction Methodologies, etc.
• Drives full integration of project team to develop deliverables in the most cost effective and efficient way.
• Executes projects primarily at the Spruance site.

Qualifications:

• Required:  4-year B.S. in engineering (Chemical, Electrical, or Mechanical preferred).
• Required:  At least 3 years of experience leading capital projects greater than $500,000 and the ability to manage an annual infrastructure project program of approximately $5,000,000 annually.
• Required:  Experience working with full-service design contractors.
• Required: Experience working with industrial mechanical, electrical, and structural contracting companies executing maintenance work and capital projects in the petrochemical indust