Project Engineer

Flexware Innovation, Llc.; Fishers (IN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Flexware Innovation is seeking a PROJECT ENGINEER to lead the decomposition of complex automation projects into executable work packages and to own delivery end-to-end. You will translate customer requirements into functional designs across control and supervisory layers, drive architecture decisions, and ensure clear handoffs to staff engineers.

You’ll mentor peers, review work for quality, and engage with customers to align technical solutions with business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Experience in industrial automation and controls is required.
• Track record of decomposing projects into work packages and delivering results.

Responsibilities

• Decompose a sold project scope into discrete, executable work packages with clear boundaries, inputs, outputs and acceptance criteria.
• Size each package so a staff engineer can own it end to end, and sequence packages against dependencies, equipment availability and the commissioning window.
• Write the engineering detail a package needs to be picked up without you in the room; references to drawings, I/O lists, design specifications, standards and reusable patterns.
• Identify which packages require senior judgement and which can be delivered by an engineer with oversight, and flag staffing needs early.
• Keep packages current as scope, schedule or site conditions change; surface the impact rather than absorbing it silently.
• Lead technical conversations with customer engineering and operations, and translate between engineering detail and business outcome.

Skills

Scope decomposition

Technical leadership

Customer collaboration

Project delivery

Mentoring engineers

Troubleshooting in field

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Equivalent work experience

Tools

Rockwell ControlLogix

Studio 5000 Logix Designer

FactoryTalk

Ignition Perspective

Ignition Vision

Job description

What Flexware Does

Manufacturers are the backbone of innovation-powering industries, improving lives, and keeping the world moving forward. That’s where Flexware Innovation comes in. Behind every great product is a complex web of machines, technology, data, and people working together to make it happen. Flexware partners with manufacturers to guide their strategy and execute the solutions that bring it to life.

PROJECT ENGINEER

What Flexware Does

Manufacturers are the backbone of innovation-powering industries, improving lives, and keeping the world moving forward. That’s where Flexware Innovation comes in. Behind every great product is a complex web of machines, technology, data, and people working together to make it happen. Flexware partners with manufacturers to guide their strategy and execute the solutions that bring it to life.

Founded in 1996, Flexware’s teams of talented advisors and engineers leverage technology across industrial controls, manufacturing systems integration, software development, data engineering and management, and the ever-evolving landscape of emerging technologies.

Flexware is made up of problem-solvers, builders, and collaborators who care deeply about doing work that matters. We roll up our sleeves, dive into the details, and create solutions that stand the test of time, because our customers count on us to keep production moving.

Today, Flexware is growing with fresh momentum and purpose. We’re investing in innovation, in our people, and in a culture where you can do your best work while living a balanced, meaningful life.

What You Will Do

• Work package definition - the core of this role


• Decompose a sold project scope into discrete, executable work packages with clear boundaries, inputs, outputs and acceptance criteria


• Size each package so a staff engineer can own it end to end, and sequence packages against dependencies, equipment availability and the commissioning window


• Write the engineering detail a package needs to be picked up without you in the room - references to drawings, I/O lists, design specifications, standards and reusable patterns from prior work


• Identify which packages need senior judgement and which can be delivered by an engineer with oversight, and flag that staffing shape early


• Keep packages current as scope, schedule or site conditions change; surface the impact rather than absorbing it silently


• Technical ownership and design


• Translate customer requirements into functional and design specifications across control and supervisory layers


• Make and document architecture decisions - controller and network topology, I/O strategy, recipe and mode handling, alarm and safety approach


• Review the work of other engineers for correctness, consistency and maintainability, and give feedback that raises the standard of the team


• Reference proven patterns from comparable systems rather than designing every job from a blank sheet


• Delivery and commissioning


• Support IO checkout, dry and wet commissioning, and startup, on site where the project requires it


• Troubleshoot across the stack - field devices, controller logic, networks and HMI - under production pressure


• Direct and review the work of subcontracted commissioning resources when a project uses them


• Close the loop on as-built documentation so the next engineer inherits an accurate picture


• Customer and team


• Lead technical conversations with customer engineering and operations, and translate between engineering detail and business outcome


• Partner with the Project Manager on scope changes, surfacing engineering impact, effort and risk in time for a decision


• Contribute to estimates and proposals, bringing realism from delivery experience


• Mentor engineers informally - this role is a multiplier on the people around it


• Provide detailed documentation to clients on system design and programming


• Please note that we are not interviewing candidates that require sponsorship now or in the future**

What You Might Have Done Before

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, and/or equivalent work experience


• Experience in industrial automation and controls is required - this is not a role we can train from an adjacent discipline


• Track record of breaking a project down into work others executed, and being accountable for the result


• Hands-on delivery across ISA-95 Levels 0-2: instrumentation and field devices, PLC control, and SCADA/HMI


• Rockwell toolchain - ControlLogix and GuardLogix (1756-L8x), Studio 5000 Logix Designer, FactoryTalk


• SCADA/HMI development, ideally including Ignition (Perspective and Vision)


• Industrial networking - Ethernet/IP, managed switches, VLAN segregation


• Drives and safety - VFD commissioning (PowerFlex or similar), safety circuit design, E-stop integration, PL/SIL determination


• Comfortable in customer-facing meetings and on a plant floor, including safety requirements such as NFPA 70E, OSHA 10, PPE, LOTO and arc flash awareness


• Travel of approximately 25-35%, with support of up to two weeks on site during commissioning periods

How We Will Assess You

We level to evidence, not to years. Titles and tenure are not proxies for capability - we benchmark what you have actually designed, delivered and commissioned. The central question for this role is whether you can structure work for other people, not only execute it yourself, so expect to walk us through a real project you decomposed and what you would do differently now.

Flexware is a customer-satisfaction, billable services business rather than a plant engineering organization. We look for people who can build, not only maintain, and who can carry the technical relationship with a customer.

To be clear about the bar: strong hands-on delivery alone is an Engineer profile. What distinguishes this role is the ability to structure work for other people - to take an ambiguous scope and produce packages someone else can execute well. We assess that directly, and we level to what you can evidence rather than to the title you are seeking.

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