Remote Senior Project Engineer, Capital Programs

GAF; Cleveland (OH); On-site; USD 140,000 - 178,000; Full time

Job summary

GAF is seeking a Corporate Project Engineer IV to lead the most critical capital projects as a SME for project execution and engineering standards. You will operate with advanced expertise across technical and cognitive skills, guiding risk management, and financial governance in AFCE processes.

In this remote US role, you will serve as the primary technical authority for the plant's capital portfolio, approve major design deviations, drive strategic planning, and lead cross-functional teams

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering required.
• 10+ years of experience in an engineering role.

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

Interpersonal skills

Attention to detail

Multi-project management

Team collaboration

Influence without authority

Change management

Communication skills

Independent judgment

Organization skills

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Job description

GAF is seeking a Corporate Project Engineer IV to lead the most critical capital projects as a SME for project execution and engineering standards. You will operate with advanced expertise across technical and cognitive skills, guiding risk management, and financial governance in AFCE processes.

In this remote US role, you will serve as the primary technical authority for the plant's capital portfolio, approve major design deviations, drive strategic planning, and lead cross-functional teams