Remote Senior Capital Projects Engineer

GAF; Reno (NV); On-site; USD 140,000 - 178,000; Full time

Job summary

GAF in the United States seeks a Corporate Project Engineer IV to lead large capital projects as the technical authority and SME for the project execution process. The role drives strategic planning, risk management, and cross-functional collaboration across the engineering team and site expansions.

The position requires 10+ years in engineering, a Bachelor’s degree, and a track record of managing multi-million-dollar investments with rigorous governance and execution standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering.
• 10+ years of experience in an engineering role.
• Experience in manufacturing or roofing/building products preferred.

Responsibilities

• Subject Matter Expertise: Serve as the primary technical authority for the plant's capital portfolio.
• Design Oversight: Approve major design deviations and provide high-level solutions for execution roadblocks ensuring all engineering solutions meet or exceed standards.
• High-Level Decision Making: Lead critical decision-making processes, utilizing expert-level data analysis, reasoning, and risk identification.
• Project Execution Process: Serve as the recognized SME of standards, ensuring projects do not advance to the next phase without a fully defined scope, budget, and adherence to the Project Execution Process and engineering standards.
• Strategic Planning: Develop and present comprehensive business cases for critical, large-scale capital projects.
• Portfolio Management: Ensure projects do not move to the execution phase without a fully defined, locked-in scope, schedule and budget.
• Continuous Improvement: Drive high-level continuous improvement and adaptability strategies across the engineering department to prevent capital project delays or budget overruns.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: While operating as a senior Individual Contributor, leads cross-functional teams throughout the entire project lifecycle, managing complex scopes that include major site expansions and critical technology upgrades.
• Stakeholder Management: Leverage advanced communication skills to influence without authority, managing complex stakeholder relationships up to the executive level.
• Resource Balancing: Assist management in monitoring the workload of the project engineering team. Identify when external engineering firms are required to supplement internal execution capabilities.
• Talent Development: Assist in elevating the capabilities of the broader project engineering network through practical guidance, knowledge sharing, and translating lessons learned into best practices
• Perform other job duties as assigned

Skills

Large capital project management

AFCE process knowledge

Engineering standards SME

Financial governance

Cross-functional leadership

Root cause analysis

Communication skills

Project planning

Microsoft Office / Google Suite

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Job description

GAF in the United States seeks a Corporate Project Engineer IV to lead large capital projects as the technical authority and SME for the project execution process. The role drives strategic planning, risk management, and cross-functional collaboration across the engineering team and site expansions.

The position requires 10+ years in engineering, a Bachelor’s degree, and a track record of managing multi-million-dollar investments with rigorous governance and execution standards.