Project Development Engineer - Team Lead

Liberty Personnel Services, Inc.; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Liberty Personnel Services, Inc. in Houston, TX, seeks a Project Development Team Lead to direct a multidisciplinary team responsible for developing the technical and design basis of projects for estimating, proposals, procurement planning, and early execution.

You will manage workload, ensure technical consistency, mentor engineers and designers, and coordinate with discipline engineering leaders to close gaps and deliverables.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Plan and supervise team workload, priorities, and deliverables.
• Coordinate development of technical bases, bills of material, specifications, data sheets, and conceptual drawings.
• Review outputs for completeness, constructability, technical consistency, and estimate readiness.
• Ensure application of approved standards, templates, workflows, and governance requirements.
• Coordinate with Estimating, Procurement, Project Management, Sales, and discipline engineering leaders.
• Identify assumptions, exclusions, risks, and information gaps affecting project scope or price.
• Mentor engineers and designers and support individual development plans.
• Capture feedback and lessons learned for the Technical Infrastructure Platform.

Skills

Technical leadership

Coordination

Communication

Workload management

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Job description

The Project Development Team Lead directs a multidisciplinary team responsible for developing the technical and design basis of projects for estimating, proposals, procurement planning, and early execution. The role is accountable for workload, schedule, technical consistency, and team development.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan and supervise team workload, priorities, and deliverables.
• Coordinate development of technical bases, bills of material, specifications, data sheets, and conceptual drawings.
• Review outputs for completeness, constructability, technical consistency, and estimate readiness.
• Ensure application of approved standards, templates, workflows, and governance requirements.
• Coordinate with Estimating, Procurement, Project Management, Sales, and discipline engineering leaders.
• Identify assumptions, exclusions, risks, and information gaps affecting project scope or price.
• Mentor engineers and designers and support individual development plans.
• Capture feedback and lessons learned for the Technical Infrastructure Platform.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering.
• Minimum 5-8 years of relevant engineering experience.
• Demonstrated technical leadership and deliverable-review capability.
• Strong coordination, communication, and workload-management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting conceptual design, estimating, FEL, FEED, or EPC proposals.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary infrastructure work.