Project Engineer
Job Description
· Contribute by meeting or exceeding customer expectations, improving organizational efficiencies and employee satisfaction.
· Provide design efforts of new and existing products from inception to warranty completion/final payment.
Responsibilities:
· Manage specific projects/services to deliver commitments with a focus on 100% on-time delivery and on budget to pre-defined milestones, published schedules and cost estimates
· Coordinate projects with customer and sales through entire project life cycle
· Prepare preliminary and proposal designs and documents
· Ensure that customer approval drawings are complete, checked, and submitted to meet the required schedule
· Participate, refine and complete designs after engineering and general design review meetings
· Release drawings and required documents to processing to meet schedule requirements
· Perform liaison function between Engineering and operations for any related issues
· Work with service and customer to coordinate any field operations required
· Interact with purchasing and vendors concerning parts they supply or propose to supply
· Perform liaison function between all departments and customer for any related issues, problems or improvement.
· Manage project EACs (estimate at completion) to ensure financial performance and/or develop plans to address and/or remedy via PINs (project impact notice) or PCNs (project change notice)
· Perform administrative duties including ECNs (Engineering Change Notification)
· Prepares project status reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends, to provide recommend actions
· Define and solve manufacturing/design issues and implement cost reduction ideas
· Must champion continuous improvement
Requirements:
· Strong knowledge of Solidworks and AutoCAD
· Strong analytical, organizational and problem solving skills
· Excellent knowledge of mechanical engineering design
· Strong ability to communicate well verbally and written
· Strong ability to meet schedule timelines
· Ability to work well in a team setting
· Time Management
Education / Work Experience:
· Bachelors Degree preferred or equivalent experience
· Solidworks and AutoCAD experience
· 2-5 years design engineering or related experience
Meet Your Recruiter
Steve Stabley
Principal Recruiter
Steve Stabley is a Recruiter at Sterling Engineering with close to 30 years of technical recruiting experience, including more than 23 years with Sterling. Throughout his career, Steve has built deep expertise in the automation and manufacturing industries, helping clients identify and hire highly skilled engineering and technical talent.
Steve has successfully sourced and placed engineers and technicians with many of the leading automation companies throughout the greater Chicagoland area. His industry knowledge, long-standing relationships, and understanding of technical hiring needs allow him to connect qualified candidates with opportunities where they can make an immediate and lasting impact.