Project Engineer

Waldemar S. Nelson; New Orleans (LA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental &amp

Job summary

Waldemar S. Nelson is seeking a Project Engineer to support its engineering project management efforts on large, multi-discipline industrial projects.

You will join a dynamic team, managing scope, schedule, staffing, and client communications across the project lifecycle. The role requires an ABET-accredited engineering degree with 5–10 years of relevant experience, plus proficiency with engineering workflows, project controls, and collaborative tools.

Qualifications

• ABET-accredited engineering degree with 5–10 years of project management experience.
• Experience leading multi-discipline engineering and procurement on industrial projects.
• Knowledge of Earned Value Management (EVM).
• Familiarity with heavy industrial, mining, metals, energy, petrochemical, or infrastructure projects.
• Experience reviewing engineering drawings, specs, calculations, and vendor data.

Responsibilities

• Lead multi-discipline project planning and execution (schedule, cost, staffing).
• Serve as the primary client contact for leadership and the project team.
• Support development of proposals including scope, schedule, and staff plans.
• Ensure cross-discipline coordination and adherence to standards.
• Drive timely engineering and procurement task completion.
• Provide project reporting to stakeholders; manage action items and issues.
• Interface with engineering/design, procurement, controls, and other teams.

Skills

Project management

Communication

Coordination

Attention to detail

Scheduling

Cost management

Forecasting

Change management

Stakeholder management

Education

ABET-accredited engineering degree

Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering

Tools

MS SharePoint

Navisworks

Bluebeam Revu

AutoCAD

PowerBI

Tableau

Cloud-based project management tools

Job description

NELSON is currently looking for a Project Engineer to help support its engineering project management efforts across large multi-discipline industrial projects. Prospective candidates can expect to join a dynamic and creative team focused on efficiently delivering a transparent project experience. As an integral part of the project management team, prospective candidates can expect to take on a wide range of responsibilities within the role of Project Engineer or Project Manager, including but not limited to the following activities.

- Multi-discipline project-related planning and execution, including but not limited to schedule, cost, staffing, etc.

- Acting as the project primary point of contact between the client leadership and the multi-discipline project team

- Supporting the development of project proposals including a scope of facilities, scope of work, schedule, staff plan, project execution plan, etc.

- Ensuring inter-discipline project coordination

- Driving timely execution of all project engineering and procurement tasks

- Ensuring that all action items are addressed by project team members in a timely fashion

- Project reporting to internal and external stakeholders

- Ensuring the project team adheres to all standards and processes

- Supporting/assisting the client Project Manager(s)

- Interfacing with Engineering/Design Leads, Procurement, Project Controls, Document Control, Software/BIM, Admin, etc. for the project scope

- A bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering from an ABET accredited university and 5 to 10 years of relevant project management experience.

- Experience in planning and executing multi-discipline Engineering and Procurement on industrial projects.

- Experience with heavy industrial, mining, metals, energy, petrochemical, or infrastructure projects.

- Experience in a design office on the engineering execution team including reviewing engineering drawings, specifications, calculations, and vendor data.

- Ability to coordinate multidisciplinary engineering teams.

- The skills to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, to a diversely educated audience.

- A professional work ethic.

- A quality focus and be detail oriented.

- Good communication, organizational, and collaboration skills.

- Proficiency with:

Advanced Work Packaging (AWP) implementation

Project execution processes

Engineering workflows

Stage-gate project development

- Working knowledge of project controls including:

Scheduling

Cost management

Forecasting

Change management

- Experience with MS SharePoint, Navisworks, and Bluebeam Revu

- Knowledge in the principles and practices of industrial engineering and procurement, preferably in a multi-discipline engineering (EP) environment.

Other preferred but not required experience include:

- Experience working as a discipline engineer (any discipline) within an EP or EPC industrial project team.

- Knowledge and experience with Earned Value Management (EVM).

- Knowledge and experience with PowerBI/Tableau, AutoCAD, Cloud-based project management tools

- Ability to read and understand Process Flow Diagrams

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
• Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
• Short Term & Long Term Disability
• Work From Home