Project Engineer

Job summary

Lead engineering projects from scope definition and planning through design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover, delivering agreed scope within budget and deadlines. Coordinate stakeholders, contractors, change management, safety reviews, and project communications while supporting capital planning and operational improvements.

Job details

12 months contract with possible extension Location: Niagara Falls, ON Responsibilities: Lead and coordinate scope definition, cost-benefit analysis, design, testing, implementation, and support. Evaluate alternative solutions to identified problems and prepare associated assessment-grade cost estimates. Complete or oversee detailed process and other engineering design work. Prepare project-planning packages to support funding requests, including: Definition-phase cost estimates Resource-loaded project schedules Project execution plans Project risk registers Appropriate safety and hazard reviews Project Execution and Management Manage projects within established deadlines and budgets, partnering with key stakeholders to execute project plans. Ensure workstreams and functions understand Business Readiness stage-gate deliverables. Coordinate change management and employee engagement, including business-process redesign and training. Keep management informed of project status through ongoing communication and presentations. Support company and corporate projects or initiatives by providing business-process knowledge, facilitation, leadership, and system-development experience. Advocate for projects through funding approval and manage procurement and contracting. Lead project execution, including field supervision of construction activities, while ensuring safe work practices for contractors and field personnel. Ensure completed projects are properly handed over to the operating unit, and final documentation is completed. Own assigned projects and deliver the agreed scope on time and within budget, with no safety or environmental incidents. Propose manufacturing processes or utility systems upgrades and operational improvements as part of annual capital budgeting. Preferred Candidate Experience Completed projects in chemical processing or manufacturing facilities handling hazardous materials, including corrosives, flammables, and pyrophorics—for example, oil and gas, petrochemical, or chemical facilities. Familiarity with the Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS). Experience in both batch and continuous chemical-process environments. Experience implementing projects where manufacturing systems interface with a Distributed Control System (DCS). Direct supervision of contractors across disciplines during project work in an operating chemical manufacturing facility. Experience starting up and commissioning new systems or units after project completion. Experience in process design or supervision, and implementing Process Safety Management requirements or recommendations arising from Process Hazard Analyses.

What you’ll do

Lead engineering projects from scope definition and planning through design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover, delivering agreed scope within budget and deadlines. Coordinate stakeholders, contractors, change management, safety reviews, and project communications while supporting capital planning and operational improvements.

Requirements

The preferred candidate has substantial experience delivering projects in chemical processing or manufacturing facilities, including hazardous-material environments and both batch and continuous processes. Relevant experience includes DCS interfaces, contractor supervision, commissioning, process design, and implementing Process Safety Management requirements or Process Hazard Analysis recommendations; WHMIS familiarity is also preferred.

Listed skills

• Project management · Preferred
• Risk Management · Preferred
• Change Management · Preferred
• Construction Management · Preferred

Other relevant skills

Identified from the job description. Confirm important requirements above.

• Project Management
• Engineering Design
• Cost-Benefit Analysis
• Cost Estimation
• Project Planning
• Project Scheduling
• Risk Management
• Process Design
• Change Management
• Stakeholder Coordination
• Contractor Supervision
• Construction Management
• Commissioning
• Process Safety Management
• Distributed Control Systems
• Business Readiness

Job areas

• Engineering
• Management & Leadership
• Manufacturing
• Construction
• Security & Safety

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