Technical Expert, Electrical & Instrumentation

Freeport-McMoRan; Idaho; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Careermine is seeking a Project Engineer to direct and coordinate engineering activities across construction projects, ensuring alignment with budgets, schedules, and quality standards. The role emphasizes leadership, technical excellence, and collaboration with design teams.

Responsibilities include reviewing calculations and specifications, mentoring engineers, and providing field oversight to ensure projects meet performance targets and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering with eight or more years of related experience; advanced technical knowledge in design and analysis.
• Proficient with project scheduling software (Primavera or Microsoft Project) and strong budgeting/ cost analysis skills.
• Ability to train and develop national engineers and to coordinate multidisciplinary design efforts.

Responsibilities

• Direct, plan, organize, and promote technical and professional development within the group to deliver engineering services on schedule and within budget.
• Lead conceptual engineering work for demanding projects to ensure successful completion and skill growth.
• Review design calculations, drawings, and specifications for compliance with standards and regulations; supervise field inspections and reporting.

Skills

Project management

Engineering design

Scheduling

Team leadership

Budgeting

Cost analysis

Training engineers

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Tools

Primavera

Microsoft Project

Job description

Direct, plan, organize, and promote technical and professional development within the group in providing excellent engineering services, including design development, schedule preparation, cost estimation, and material procurement, for all construction related works at all jobsite areas efficiently and effectively, in order to ensure the achievement of customers' needs and requirements within the budget and timeframe according to company's policies and procedures.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Establish and implement employee training and development programs, to promote technical and professional development on national engineers within the department.
• Evaluate and justify the need for capital expenditure projects through cost and benefit analysis to the company, to provide recommendation of the most appropriate solution to the company's engineering capital expenditure requirements.
• Assist Design and Construction Team on setting priorities and schedule of engineering work, to ensure the design master schedule for all engineering work is met with efficient allocation of engineering resources.
• Review the design calculations, drawings, and specifications, to ensure compliance with company and government, national and international regulations, standards, and procedures.
• Liaise with supervisor to review and update standards and procedures, to comply with government and international standards and regulations.
• Perform a lead role as a Project Engineer (PE) on the conceptual engineering work of the technically demanding critical or novel engineering projects, to ensure these projects are completed successfully and that national engineers gain a wider range of experience.
• Monitor and supervise material take-off (MTO) and project estimates are completed in compliance with the existing procedures in a timely manner with a minimum of errors.
• Review yearly plan and budget development, to provide guidelines for the forthcoming year's operation.
• Review monthly actual activities against the plan and budget, to ensure the achievement of department objectives within the allocated resources.
• Communicate, organize, and control the implementation of company's policies and procedures, to ensure department, perform their duties in a safe manner and environmentally conscious.
• Perform field inspections to evaluate completion status, conformance to design, project schedule completeness, and provide professional support and oversight to the Construction process.
• Prepare and submit field inspection reports as needed per project.
• Work with Central Services Cost Control and Scheduling teams to monitor budget progress on projects, follow change management procedures, and project manager duties as assigned.
• Develop, monitor, evaluate, and appraise performance and potential capabilities of department, to contribute to the development of professional team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering with eight (8) years of experience in related field or equivalent of education and experience.
• Advanced technical knowledge of engineering design and analysis techniques.
• Computer literacy in the use of Microsoft Word Excel.
• Project scheduling software with either Primavera or Microsoft Project.
• Ability to interpret customers' engineering requirements and to conceptualize engineering solutions by application of advanced technical engineering knowledge to a diverse range of project applications.
• Ability to coordinate multidisciplinary projects to meet customers' specific performance requirements for quality, cost and completion targets.
• Ability to train and develop national engineers to advance their professional abilities and pass on technical knowledge to junior engineers.
• Ability to prepare project budgets, schedules and cost benefit analysis for project work to determine cost effective engineering solutions.
• Ability to analyze and plan engineering design work and resource requirements to balance the demands of many customers.
• Ability to prepare technical specifications and documents for the specification of engineering technical services and products.
• Ability to plan and supervise the work of technical consultants.

Preferred Qualifications

• Six (6) years of experience in project engineering design on heavy industrial projects preferably related to mining and infrastructure development covering the design and construction experience as a Project Engineer or Construction Manager in mining and/or infrastructure construction projects and Power Systems.
• Six (6) years of experience managing multidisciplinary design project work including materials estimating, project scheduling, and project budget development.