Project Engineer

Westinghouse Electric Company; Minneapolis (MN); Hybrid; USD 82,656 - 85,411; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy services company is seeking an E&C Engineer II for a contract position based in Minneapolis. The role involves managing capital projects for gas turbine plants, collaborating with teams to ensure successful project delivery. Ideal candidates have 5+ years of experience in utilities or heavy industry. This hybrid role requires local residence and offers competitive pay ranging from $60 to $62 per hour.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience preferred, candidates with less will be considered.
• Experience in utilities, manufacturing, or heavy industry.
• Ability to manage budgets, schedules, and team members.

Responsibilities

• Manage approved capital projects from scope review to execution.
• Coordinate with reliability engineers and vendors.
• Plan and implement projects during plant outages.

Skills

Project management

Budget management

Technical documentation

Collaboration with contractors

Safety compliance

Job description

Westinghouse Electric Company Provided Pay Range

This range is provided by Westinghouse Electric Company. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base Pay Range

$60.00/hr - $62.00/hr

Must be a US Citizen or Valid Green Card Holder

No Third-Party or C2C Firms

Must live within a drivable distance of Minneapolis, MN for this hybrid, one-year contract. No per diem nor relocation is being offered.

We are committed to transparency and equity in all our people practices. The base salary range for this position, which is dependent upon review of qualifications, is estimated to be $60/hour to $62/hour.

The E&C Engineer II will be a project engineer supporting capital projects at Client's gas turbine plants, located in the South Metro area (Blue Lake and Inver Hills), with occasional travel to Wheaton (Eau Claire, WI) and Anson (near Sioux Falls, SD). You will focus on implementing mechanically based projects, coordinating with plant engineers, vendors, and contractors to ensure successful project delivery.

Responsibilities

• Be the project engineer managing approved capital projects from scope review to execution
• Coordinate with reliability engineers and vendors to update quotes and specifications.
• Plan and implement projects during plant outages or while online, ensuring resource availability.
• Collaborate with contractors and other teams to ensure understanding on installation and commissioning.
• Maintain safety compliance and coordinate site access and orientation.
• Travel between plant locations, with most work centered in the metro area.
• Responsible for the design, modeling, development and testing of a machine, structure or system.
• Develop functional requirements. Understand and apply standard engineering principles.
• Create simulations and prototypes to evaluate preliminary designs and test how a machine, structure or system operates.
• Design and test components and integrate components to produce final product. Monitor quality of products and control the efficiency of processes.
• Evaluate a design's overall effectiveness, cost, reliability, and safety. Investigate causes of failures to maintain quality and recommend improvements.
• Use and apply technical standards, principles, theories, concepts, and techniques to perform activities/assignments of limited scope.
• Help develop technical documentation (including designs, testing, calculations, reports, and standards). Use and may help develop procedures.
• Provide ongoing technical support for project activities within areas such as Operations, Maintenance, Testing/diagnostics, Regulatory. May provide field engineering oversight for activities such as commissioning, testing, inspections under guidance.
• Coordinate/lead projects or portions of projects (including phases such as design, equipment selection, procurement support, installation and commissioning), under the direction of a higher‑level engineer or supervisor.
• Under the direction of a higher‑level engineer/supervisor, supports bid/evaluation processes by performing basic analysis and calculations on existing documentation and materials that help prepare bid documents. In completing segments of technical evaluations for proposals you may need to communicate with other departments of the company following appropriate processes.
• Exchanges information in all formats, on matters having multiple importance and complexity both inter‑organizationally and with outside customer/vendors.
• May coordinate the work of interns, drafters, technicians, and others and provide guidance and mentoring to less experienced engineers.
• Responsible for self‑development of technical skills.
• May perform activities such as budgeting, estimating, forecasting, accounting, work order management, to support engineering projects.

Who You Are

• 5+ years of experience preferred, but candidates with less experience will be considered
• Experience in utilities, manufacturing, or heavy industry; gas turbine experience is a plus but not required.
• Manage budgets, schedules, change orders, and team members.
• Participate in customer‑facing sales and project execution meetings.
• Coordinate equipment shipment, installation, and commissioning with contractors and customers.
• Work with plant operations, site management, and craft labor teams.

Seniority Level

Associate

Employment Type

Contract

Job Function

Utilities and Construction

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