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The Senior Project Engineer provides functional oversight and direction to maintenance personnel, contractors, installation crews, equipment manufacturers, and system integrators during assigned projects.\nKey Responsibilities\nProject Engineering, Capital Improvements & Execution\nLead electrical, controls, automation, equipment, and process-improvement projects from concept through design, capital approval, installation, commissioning, startup, and final acceptance.\nDevelop project scopes, objectives, technical specifications, engineering designs, cost estimates, budgets, schedules, return-on-investment justifications, and risk-management plans.\nPresent project proposals, financial justifications, progress, metrics, risks, and results to plant management, senior leadership, and other stakeholders.\nCoordinate work with maintenance, contractors, installation crews, equipment manufacturers, and integrators; ensure materials, equipment, resources, and site readiness support safe, accurate, and timely execution.\nProvide project-site functional oversight, update schedules for progress and work-sequence changes, and coordinate plant and contractor activities during downtime, installation, and startup events.\nLead FAT, SAT, commissioning, startup, and performance validation; maintain accountability for project safety, technical quality, cost, schedule, and results.\nElectrical Engineering & Industrial Automation\nDesign, specify, evaluate, and implement industrial electrical and automation-control systems, including PLC, HMI, SCADA, motor-control, VFD, servo, motion-control, and industrial-network applications.\nDevelop and review electrical schematics, control-panel designs, component specifications, functional specifications, control narratives, and technical documentation.\nLead control-system integration, troubleshooting, upgrades, modernization, standardization, and obsolescence-planning initiatives.\nEvaluate automation technologies, equipment designs, supplier proposals, and system-integrator solutions to identify safe, reliable, and cost-effective improvements.\nCollaborate with IT and technical partners on industrial network architecture, connectivity, and operational-technology cybersecurity.\nEnsure engineering designs and installations comply with applicable electrical codes, machine-safety requirements, and engineering standards.\nTroubleshoot production equipment and processes; support production, maintenance, sales, and training activities; and identify cost-savings and continuous-improvement opportunities.\nRequired Qualifications\nMinimum of 7 years of relevant experience in industrial electrical engineering, controls engineering, automation, project engineering, or a closely related technical field.\nDemonstrated ability to design, implement, modify, troubleshoot, and improve industrial PLC-based control systems and related electrical and automation equipment.\nProven experience independently leading engineering projects or assuming significant technical ownership of complex industrial automation projects, including vendor and contractor coordination, installation, and commissioning.\nStrong working knowledge of industrial electrical systems, motor controls, automation equipment, electrical schematics, machine design and operating principles, and machine-repair troubleshooting practices.\nAbility to develop technical specifications, evaluate engineering solutions, conduct root-cause analysis, and make sound engineering decisions with limited supervision.\nStrong project-management, organizational, problem-solving, verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills; proficiency with CAD, Microsoft Office, and project-scheduling tools such as Microsoft Project and Gantt charts.\nWorking knowledge of blueprints and installation drawings; product and process design techniques including APQP, flow charts, control plans, FMEA, and PPAP; and applicable electrical and machine-safety principles.\nPreferred Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering Technology, Automation Engineering, Project Engineering, or a related technical discipline; equivalent relevant experience will be considered.\nExperience with Rockwell Automation / Allen-Bradley control systems, including ControlLogix, CompactLogix, and Studio 5000.\nExperience developing or supporting industrial HMI and SCADA systems, particularly Ignition SCADA, along with AutoCAD Electrical or similar electrical-design software.\nExperience with servo drives, motion control, industrial Ethernet, and automation-network architecture.\nKnowledge of machine-safety standards and safety-related control-system design, including ISO 13849, NFPA 70, NFPA 70E, NFPA 79, or related standards.\nExperience with capital-project budgeting, financial justification, return-on-investment analysis, project presentations, and preventive or predictive maintenance principles.\nExperience providing technical mentorship or leading multidisciplinary project teams; 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