Project Engineer

Air Liquide USA LLC; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Family Benefits

401(k) Retirement Plan with company match

Paid Holidays and Sick time

Referral Bonus

Early Access to Benefits

Job summary

Join our dynamic team at Air Liquide USA LLC as a Project Engineer in Houston, Texas. You will lead and organize design and technical activities in compliance with contractual requirements. This role demands a B.S. in Engineering and at least 3 years of experience in Project Engineering.

The position involves coordinating engineering teams, ensuring project safety, and maintaining the quality of deliverables. The company offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and retirement plans.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in a Project Engineering role.
• Ability to travel to job sites on short notice.
• Basic knowledge of engineering processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead and organize project design and technical activities.
• Promote safety adherence within the company.
• Coordinate engineering resources with local and remote teams.
• Ensure engineering deliverables meet quality and compliance standards.
• Support procurement with technical clarifications.

Skills

Project Engineering Experience

Proficiency in Google Workspace

Proficiency in MS Office

Interdisciplinary Engineering Knowledge

Education

B.S. degree in Engineering (Chemical or Mechanical preferred)

Job description

Join our dynamic team at Air Liquide as a Project Engineer where you will lead, organize, perform and ensure all the design and technical activities of a project follow the contractual requirements.

Benefits

• Work Schedule - Monday - Friday
• Referral Bonus
• Comprehensive Family Benefits: Air Liquide offers a full benefits package designed to support your whole life, including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, AD&D, and Disability Insurance.
• Support for Parents: We offer a 14-week paid child birth benefit to support growing families.
• Future Security: 401(k) Retirement Plan with company match, Tuition Assistance, Paid Holidays, Vacation, and Sick time.
• Early Access: Your benefits start after day 1

Job Duties

• Promoting safety within the company; meeting or advancing the company's safety standards.
• Coordinating the assigned engineering resources, either with local and/or with remote international team members and peers.
• Fostering collaboration and alignment between disciplines as well as engineering contractors.
• Facilitating weekly meetings with different engineering parties; issuing minutes of meetings; and following up on action items.
• Demonstrating an interdisciplinary mindset including but not limited to Civil, Structural, Mechanical (static and rotating), Piping, Process, Process Control, Systems, Electrical and Instrumentation engineering.
• Fostering the timely delivery of engineering deliverables as per project schedule; informing the project scheduler and PM of the status of each deliverable, risk of delays and recovery plans; weekly expediting of the different engineering disciplines.
• Securing the quality of the deliverables; verifying that the engineering deliverables and Basis of Design are compliant with the E&C Global standards and with the US and local codes.
• Supporting the Proposal team and supporting the review of the Basis of Design.
• Preparing the Technical Requisition Summary for procurement and guiding the technical clarifications with material/equipment suppliers.
• Supporting the procurement team in expediting the Vendor Documentation Records and providing technical support and review during the manufacturing period.
• Maintaining a supportive log of pending actions / open topics (from minutes).
• Implementing Document Control practices and tools (Alair, G-drive) for technical project documents.
• Maintaining a record of engineering capitalization points.
• Ensuring the project execution plan is followed and assist in maintaining and updating the plan.
• Identifying, tracking and mitigating the impact of any changes generated after the signature of the project; building alignment on the approval of these changes and expediting resolution.
• Supporting technical Design Reviews and facilitating project gate review meetings according to Air Liquide standards, including inviting, planning and issuing meeting minutes.
• Interfacing with Design Authorities and the Overall Design Authority.
• Supporting Fabrication, and Construction by coordinating resolution of technical issues.
• Collaborative change management approach including commercial awareness.

Required Qualifications

• B.S. degree in Engineering required (Chemical or Mechanical preferred)
• 3+ years of experience in Project Engineering role within related Industrial Design or operations
• Proficient with Google workspace and MS Office
• Ability to travel to various job sites on short notice

Preferred Qualifications

• Basic knowledge of Engineering in all disciplines and process
• Experience in Project Management and Customer relationships
• Site experience (Construction or Commissioning)
• Second language (French or German) preferred
• Project Management certification (PMI/PMP) preferred

WORK CONDITIONS

Office Environment with occasional business trips

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.