Project Engineer

Opportunity Overview:

E&C Engineer/Project Engineer - Contract 1 Year

Minneapolis, MN - Hybrid Role (3 Days in Office Required)

Must live within a drivable distance of Minneapolis, MN for this hybrid, one-year contract. No per diem or relocation being offered.

Your Day-to-Day:

The E&C Engineer II will be a project engineer supporting capital projects at Client's gas turbine plants, located in the South Metro area (Blue Lake and Inver Hills), with occasional travel to Wheaton (Eau Claire, WI) and Anson (near Sioux Falls, SD). You will focus on implementing mechanically based projects, coordinating with plant engineers, vendors, and contractors to ensure successful project delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Be the project engineer managing approved capital projects from scope review to execution
• Coordinate with reliability engineers and vendors to update quotes and specifications.
• Plan and implement projects during plant outages or while online, ensuring resource availability.
• Collaborate with contractors and other teams to ensure understanding on installation and commissioning.
• Maintain safety compliance and coordinate site access and orientation.
• Travel between plant locations, with most work centered in the metro area.
• Responsible for the design, modeling, development and testing of a machine, structure or system.
• Develop functional requirements. Understand and apply standard engineering principles.
• Create simulations and prototypes to evaluate preliminary designs and test how a machine, structure or system operates.
• Design and test components and integrate components to produce final product. Monitor quality of products and control the efficiency of processes.
• Evaluate a design's overall effectiveness, cost, reliability, and safety. Investigate causes of failures to maintain quality and recommend improvements.
• Use and apply technical standards, principles, theories, concepts, and techniques to perform activities/assignments of limited scope.
• Help develop technical documentation (including designs, testing, calculations, reports, and standards). Use and may help develop procedures.
• Provide ongoing technical support for project activities within areas such as Operations, Maintenance, Testing/diagnostics, Regulatory. May provide field engineering oversight for activities such as commissioning, testing, inspections under guidance.
• Coordinate/lead projects or portions of projects (including phases such as design, equipment selection, procurement support, installation and commissioning), under the direction of a higher-level engineer or supervisor.
• Under the direction of a higher-level engineer/supervisor, supports bid/evaluation processes by performing basic analysis and calculations on existing documentation and materials that help prepare bid documents. In completing segments of technical evaluations for proposals you may need to communicate with other departments of the company following appropriate processes.
• Exchanges information in all formats, on matters having multiple importance and complexity both inter-organizationally and with outside customer/vendors.
• May coordinate the work of interns, drafters, technicians, and others and provide guidance and mentoring to less experienced engineers.
• Responsible for self-development of technical skills.
• May perform activities such as budgeting, estimating, forecasting, accounting, work order management, to support engineering projects.

Who You Are:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering (ABET-accredited preferred).
• 5+ years of experience preferred, but candidates with less experience will be considered
• Experience in utilities, manufacturing, or heavy industry; gas turbine experience is a plus but not required.
• Manage budgets, schedules, change orders, and team members.
• Participate in customer-facing sales and project execution meetings.
• Coordinate equipment shipment, installation, and commissioning with contractors and customers.
• Work with plant operations, site management, and craft labor teams.

Our Safety Pledge to You:

If you are as committed to your success as we are committed to your safety, then this is the position for you! For us, our guiding principle has always been and will continue to be the safety of our people. It's that simple!

Why WECTEC Staffing Services?

WECTEC Staffing Services delivers customer-focused solutions, offering everything from high-volume, cost-effective staffing to specialized niche roles, while maintaining the best service. Our employees bring expertise across technical and corporate functions, supporting international contracts in over five countries. We invite you to explore opportunities within our distinguished global talent network.

WECTEC Staffing Services offers competitive pay to all of our employees. Additionally, most positions qualify for benefits including the following:

• Comprehensive Health and Income Protection Benefits
• 401(k) Savings Plan
• Paid Vacations for Qualifying Positions

We are committed to transparency and equity in all our people practices. The base salary range for this position, which is dependent upon review of qualifications, is estimated to be $60/hour to $62/hour.

WECTEC Staffing Services continues to place technical resources into important roles globally. You can learn more by visiting www.wectecstaffing.com

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