Project Engineer - CapEx
Tiffin, Ohio
Salary dependent on experience and education + benefits and profit sharing!
📌 Enjoy managing capital equipment projects? This is for you!
📌 Enjoy building customer relationships and seeing projects through from start to finish? Perfect!
📌 Craving good work-life balance and a strong support team? We've got it!
📌 Join a family-oriented culture that's serious about succeeding.
If this sounds like the opportunity you've been waiting for, apply today!
Established original equipment manufacturer is hiring a Project Engineer to join their project management team. The Project Engineer will work within a team of project managers and operations professionals to complete multiple projects on time and within budget. Daily you will report to a Project Team Lead. Responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:
- Manage and lead up to 20 projects at a time at various stages
- Communicate as the liaison between production and customers on the status of projects
- Oversee budgets and manage timelines and project scopes
- Forecast projects and communicate and document changes
- Ensure that inspection and verification of equipment meets the scope of the customer project
- Negotiate change orders, project terms, scheduling etc. with customers and operations
- Update customers on the status of projects and hold them accountable to the project scope or educate them on additional costs of the project
- Complete all project documentation and attend project meetings with sales and engineering
- Oversee equipment installs and assist with oversight of final inspection
- Represent the company in a professional manner that will foster and build client relationships
- Other duties as directed by management
Candidates should enjoy working in a team environment and collaborating with other engineers. The company offers competitive medical benefits, vacation, paid holidays, 401K, profit sharing, tuition reimbursement and a wellness plan.
REQUIREMENTS for the Project Engineer:
1. Minimum of a high school diploma; additional post education is preferred
2. Ideally 3-5 years of experience in a similar project engineering position
3. Experience managing CapEx projects in general manufacturing or at an OEM (original equipment manufacturer)
4. Experience overseeing project timelines and budgets
5. Experience reading blueprints/part drawings
6. Ability to forecast projects
7. Mechanical aptitude
8. Microsoft Office
Skills preferred but NOT required:
1. ERP experience
2. Skilled trades background
3. Working knowledge of PLCs
4. Fabrication or paint background
Reasons to work for this organization:
📌 Work with an established team and a manager who used to be in this role
📌 Excellent work-life balance, averaging 40-45 hours per week
📌 Team oriented, supportive culture
📌 Diverse business mix
📌 Privately held company
📌 Enjoy occasional (up to 10%-20%) travel without being a road warrior
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