Project Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 20, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 20, 2026. Koch Industries scores A on the Alion truth index.
Your Job
As a Project Engineer based in Costa Mesa, California, you will independently lead moderately complex new product introduction (NPI) and sustaining projects from initiation through production release. You will connect customer requirements, cross-functional expertise, manufacturing readiness, and business priorities to deliver project scope through disciplined planning, risk management, and execution.
Our Team
You will work with engineering, manufacturing, quality, validation, regulatory, supply chain, operations, and commercial partners. This role will coordinate project deliverables while ensuring functional subject-matter experts maintain responsibility for technical content and approvals.
What You Will Do
- Lead assigned NPI and sustaining projects or support Program Management based on project scope and business needs
- Own integrated project plans, including schedules, milestones, dependencies, actions, risks, stage-gate readiness, and project-status reporting
- Coordinate cross-functional contributors and facilitate readiness reviews while maintaining clear ownership of technical decisions and approvals
- Communicate project status, commitments, risks, decisions, barriers, and recovery plans to internal teams, customers, suppliers, and other stakeholders
- Connect customer requirements with manufacturing readiness and quality, validation, regulatory, supply, operational, and commercial considerations
- Maintain traceable, audit-ready project records, objective evidence, required deliverables, open items, and approved exceptions
- Promote safety, ergonomics, standard work, continuous improvement, lessons learned, and practices that improve project predictability
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering
- 5+ years of project engineering, program execution, or comparable engineering project leadership experience
- Experience leading new product introduction or sustaining projects from initiation through production release
- Experience managing project schedules, milestones, dependencies, actions, risks, and stage-gate deliverables
What Will Put You Ahead
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering
- Experience in medical-device or medical contract manufacturing
- Experience with three-dimensional modeling software, including SolidWorks
- Experience coordinating customer, supplier, and multi-site project activities
- Experience supporting non-recurring engineering, budget, scope, or commercial discussions
This role is not eligible for VISA Sponsorship.
For this role, we anticipate paying $105,000- $120,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.
At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.
Who We Are
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).