Job Description
Job Description
Project Engineer - Chemical Process
Cincinnati, OH
Competitive salary, based on experience, plus excellent benefits, bonus potential and profit sharing
Looking for mentorship as a Project Engineer in a diverse engineering role? Look no further!
Grow with dedicated mentorship: Work directly with a manager committed to your professional development and eager to provide guidance!
Achieve true work/life balance: Enjoy a consistent 40-45-hour workweek with rare weekend or after-hours calls, allowing you to thrive both professionally and personally.
Drive impactful projects: Experience a streamlined approval process, enabling you to get your projects off the ground quickly and efficiently!
Benefit from exceptional rewards: Take advantage of a strong compensation package that includes bonuses, profit sharing, and 401K match.
Expand your expertise: Engage directly with customers, attend client meetings, and tackle a wide range of diverse projects spanning chemical, mechanical, civil, and electrical.
If you're a highly motivated, results-oriented engineer seeking a challenging and rewarding opportunity with a company that truly values its employees, we encourage you to APPLY!
A growing chemical manufacturer with a diverse customer base and product line is seeking a Project Engineer to oversee multiple projects in a high-volume, process-oriented manufacturing environment. Daily, you will report to the Program Manager and will be responsible for the following tasks:
- Oversee aspects of multiple capital equipment projects, from conception to completion, ensuring adherence to timelines and budgets.
- Attend daily meetings to update management on the status of projects.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (sales, engineering, operations) to define project scope, feasibility, and resource allocation.
- Assist with the management of vendors and contractors to achieve project objectives.
- Contribute to the validation process for assigned projects, ensuring timely completion and adherence to quality standards.
- Successfully transition completed projects to operations, providing comprehensive documentation and training.
- Maintain clear and consistent communication with customers regarding project expectations, progress, and timelines.
- Collaborate effectively with internal stakeholders at all levels to gather information, facilitate decision-making, and ensure project success.
- Develop and optimize line layouts and modifications to enhance production efficiency and safety.
- Support the development of process flow diagrams in collaboration with the process engineering team.
- Assist with establishing and maintaining equipment standards to promote consistency and reliability.
- Identify opportunities for process improvement and cost reduction within capital projects.
- Work with team on feasibility analysis.
- Partner with the Program Manager to improve the project management system.
- Perform other duties as assigned by management to support overall business objectives.
Candidates should be detail-oriented, have excellent problem-solving skills, be able to prioritize tasks, be improvement-minded, and be able to communicate at all levels. Individuals should enjoy spending 30-50% of their time on the manufacturing floor. This is a diverse project engineering position that reports directly to the Program Manager. The company offers EXCELLENT medical benefits (including dental and vision), profit sharing and bonus potential, paternity leave, 401K, paid holidays, vacation and personal days. Medical benefits are available the first of the month after start.
REQUIREMENTS for the Project Engineer:
1. Bachelor's Degree in a technical field; Mechanical or Chemical Engineering highly preferred
2. Minimum of three years of similar project management experience
3. Experience working in process-oriented manufacturing (such as chemical, food, beverage), including a blending/mixing process
4. Experience overseeing capital equipment projects, including timelines and budgets
5. Blueprint reading experience
6. P&ID experience
7. Working knowledge of Gantt charts
8. Microsoft Office
Skills preferred but NOT required:
1. PMP certification
2. Consumer products manufacturing
3. Validation experience
4. Formal problem solving tools (5WHY or fishbone diagrams)
5. Power BI
Why work for this organization:
Company has a diverse business mix and supplies Fortune 500 companies
Excellent benefits, including 401K, profit sharing, and bonus potential
Work/life balance, averaging 40-45 hours per week
Company is positioned for future growth and acquisitions
Minimal red tape on project approval
Privately held company
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Company Description
MJ Recruiters specializes in technical and professional manufacturing recruitment. We partner with automotive and non-automotive clients to supply candidates and fill positions at all levels. Our specialty is recruiting candidates at the management level of these disciplines. We are focused regionally and have the capability to recruit nationwide for our clients. We develop clients into long term partners by understanding their culture and goals.\r\n\r\nWhether you are a candidate or a client, a business partner or a networking source, our goal is to "raise the bar" when it comes to your impression of a professional recruitment partner. Through communication, honesty, and follow through, our goal is TO RAISE THE BAR!