Senior Project Engineer

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Dow has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Project Engineer located in Orange, TX.

About you and this role:

Leads the engineering activities for capital and expense projects through the Front End Loading, Detailed Design, Construction and Start-up phases of the project cycle. Leads the multi-discipline engineering effort for a capital project or serves as project lead. Represents the most senior project engineers for site executed work at Dow’s regional engineering centers or individuals executing smaller large projects for one of Dow’s global engineering centers. Works on projects globally, including mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and divestitures, ranging in size from MET implementation in one plant to enterprise solution rollouts across the globe to hundreds of plants. Requires in-depth conceptual and practical knowledge in own job discipline and basic knowledge of related job disciplines.

Responsibilities:

• Drives project execution and coach team on application of the Global Project Methodology (GPM) work process.
• Provides overall planning and organization during design and construction.
• Develops staffing plans.
• Coordinates all design engineering, procurement, and construction activities.
• Leads the project execution planning including contracting strategy development.
• Analyzes project risks and develop mitigation plans.
• Initiates, monitors, and updates the project schedule and estimate. Closely monitors project cost and progress. Manages change to established scope and baselines.
• Identifies and takes corrective action to ensure the project goals for cycle-time, cost, and quality are met.
• Delivers as-built and operations/maintenance documentation to the facility.

Qualifications:

• A minimum of a bachelor's degree in Engineering or a relevant technical discipline.
• A minimum of 6 years of project, engineering, manufacturing or related experience.
• A minimum requirement for this U.S. based position is the ability to work legally in the United States.  No visa sponsorship/support is available for this position, including for any type of U.S. permanent residency (green card) process.

Able to meet the following physical demands of the job, with or without reasonable accommodations:

• Work at heights, climbs stairs and ladders.
• Wear all required personal protective equipment, such as earplugs, goggles, and steel-toed shoes.
• Work in an area of intense or continuous noise.
• Work in an area with hazardous materials.
• Perform frequent bending, reaching, and lifting.
• Stand or walk for extended periods of time.
• This role does involve elevated work greater than or equal to four feet above the ground.
• Must be able to wear and use personal protective equipment (PPE), including harnesses with a total weight capacity of 300lbs. (This typically accommodates individuals who weigh 285 or less.)

Your Skills:

• Must be experienced in complete design and layout of complex systems and equipment orientations, apply safety in design principles, and apply good judgment and experience.
• Must be able to understand and implement project deliverable and schedule requirements.
• Must demonstrate an ever-present consciousness of safety in all personal and daily work activities.
• Must maintain good work habits, be self-disciplined, use time efficiently, manage own assigned work, and able to assess and communicate the physical progress of the work assignment.
• Must be responsive to meeting unforeseen internal and external change which impact project schedule requirements.

Note: This position does not offer relocation assistance.

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