Project Engineer, Commissioning Services

Jobtailor; Massachusetts; On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced commissioning engineer to lead onsite support, coordinate across departments, and ensure rigorous process adherence throughout the project lifecycle.

You will collaborate with project managers, engineers, and leadership to design and standardize commissioning workflows, review Jira tickets, track time, and support continuous improvement through training and documentation.

Qualifications

• Managing projects across broad internal stakeholders to execute scope and timeline.
• Ability to schedule complex work with dependencies and drive production.
• Track record of delivering project outcomes on time and within budget.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary liaison for onsite commissioning support and issue resolution across departments.
• Ensure commissioning workload, progress, and reporting are updated in Jira per project.
• Design, benchmark, and standardize commissioning processes from scratch.
• Audit third-party contractor work to ensure adherence to company processes.
• Verify Jira ticket content with engineers and ensure no missing details.
• Track timesheet hours against commissioning tasks and projects.
• Resolve blocked Jira items by engaging assigned engineers.
• Lead weekly training sessions and update documentation for continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with project managers to address blocking issues.
• Travel onsite with project managers, scrum masters, and leadership.
• Participate in new product development through design reviews and cross-functional planning.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Scheduling complex work

Teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering

Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering

Bachelor's degree in automated production management

Tools

Allen-Bradley PLC

ABB Robot

Fanuc Robot

Ethernet/IP

Panel View Plus

Job description

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary liaison for all onsite commissioning support, issue resolution, and coordination across departments.
• Ensure all commissioning workload, progress, and reporting are accurately updated and maintained in Jira per project.
• Partner with team leadership to design, benchmark, and standardize commissioning processes from scratch.
• Audit third-party contractor work and documentation to ensure strict adherence to company processes.
• Conduct one-on-one discussions with engineers to verify the content and status of Jira tickets, ensuring no missing details.
• Track and verify that timesheet hours align with commissioning tasks and projects.
• Resolve blocked and rejected Jira items by working directly with assigned engineers.
• Facilitate weekly training sessions and documentation updates to support continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with project managers to address and resolve blocking issues.
• Travel as needed to work onsite with project managers, scrum masters, the commissioning team, and leadership.
• Participate in new product development initiatives by attending design reviews, workshops, and cross-functional planning sessions to ensure commissioning requirements, deliverables, documentation, and field support needs are identified and addressed throughout the development process.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in either electrical or mechanical engineering, or in automated production management, or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum of 5 years' experience with PLC (Allen Bradley), Robot (ABB, Fanuc), Industrial networking (Ethernet/IP), or Operator interface (Panel View Plus).
• Mechanical Engineer, or an engineer with heavy hands-on mechanical experience, is highly preferred.
• Experience with motion control equipment such as VFDs and the ability to debug and support via Remote Desktop, SSH, browser, etc.
• Demonstrated proficiency in managing projects across broad internal stakeholders to execute project scope and timeline.
• Demonstrated ability to schedule complex work with dependencies and to drive production.
• Track record of exceeding project deliverables while remaining on time and within budget.
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.

Certifications & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering
• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering
• Bachelor's degree in automated production management