Engineer, Senior Project

Caturus Management Services, LLC; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Caturus Management Services, LLC is seeking a Senior Project Engineer to manage minor capital projects within the Commonwealth LNG Engineering team based in Houston, Texas. The role involves preparing, scheduling, and monitoring engineering projects while ensuring compliance to safety, budget, and quality standards.

The ideal candidate should have a Bachelor's degree in Engineering and a minimum of 10 years of related experience, with LNG experience preferred. This position offers a chance to transition to a fabrication yard in Asia later on.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of prior or relevant work experience as an Engineer required.
• LNG experience preferred.
• Ability to comprehend design specifications, standards, and contracts.

Responsibilities

• Manage minor capital projects within the Commonwealth LNG Engineering team.
• Prepare, schedule, coordinate, and monitor assigned engineering projects.
• Develop and review project scopes, execution plans, cost estimates, and schedules.

Skills

Project management skills

Leadership skills

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Job description

Job Description

Position Summary: The Senior Project Engineer manages minor capital projects within the Commonwealth LNG Engineering team. Responsibilities include preparing, scheduling, coordinating, and monitoring assigned engineering projects. Monitoring compliance to safety, schedule, budget, applicable codes, regulatory, best practices, QA/QC policies, performance standards and specifications. The Senior Project Engineer should have the ability to work with multiple engineering disciplines and demonstrate excellent project management and supervision skills. The Sr. Project Engineer should also demonstrate excellent organizational, time management, leadership, and decision‑making skills. This position will be located in Houston, TX initially and then will transition to our fabrication yard in Asia at a later date.

Key Accountabilities

• Develops and/or reviews project scopes of work, project execution plans, divisions of responsibility between various stakeholders.
• Develops and/or reviews project cost estimates, schedule, manpower and forecast.
• Monitors and develops reports on progress of project execution.
• Delivers progress presentations to the management team.
• Manages internal and external interfaces to ensure effective coordination, teamwork, and timely delivery of information.
• Develops and/or reviews project quality assurance plans.
• Develops and maintains KPIs to track delivery against project objectives, including budget, schedule, safety, and quality expectations.
• Manages internal and external resources to ensure delivery of project within budget, schedule and quality expectations.
• Use best practices in change management to control scope changes and the associated cost and schedule impacts.
• Ensures quality of project deliverables, including documentation, materials and field execution (if applicable).
• Collaborates with subject matter experts to create more efficient engineering solutions and execution methods to maintain project profitability.
• Leads development of ITB packages.
• Leads technical and commercial evaluations of contractor proposals and contracts.
• Responsible for formal communication with contractors.
• Manages multi‑discipline Management of Change (MOCs) to ensure quality documentation and efficient approval and execution.
• Provides project justification and stewards proposed projects through the internal approval process.
• Leads project team meetings and issues meeting minutes.

Qualifications

Education, Certificates, and Licenses:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering required

Experience:

• 10 plus years of prior or relevant work experience as an Engineer required.
• LNG experience preferred.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ability to comprehend design specifications, standards, and contracts.
• Ability to communicate clearly in verbal and written form.
• Ability to conduct efficient meetings.
• Ability to develop comprehensive scopes of work.