Senior Customer Project Engineer - Markham, Canada - General Electric

Description

Job Description Summary

The Senior Project Engineer will direct and coordinate the engineering and design of assigned projects along with technical aspects of the contract. They will coordinate timely decision making on project technical issues relying on internal technical authorities as necessary. Also they will establish & manage the technical interface between all parties involved in the project including engineers, customers, and subcontractors.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Work with functional engineering teams' to build estimates, schedules, and change orders
• Coordinate and provide technical and delivery leadership for the project
• Be accountable for engineering interfaces with multiple engineering disciplines, business project management, subcontractors, and customers
• Provide oversight for subcontractor engineering work on assigned projects
• Define critical technical project issues and ensure their timely resolution
• Identify technical risks and implement risk mitigation plans
• Ensure engineering activities are performed in compliance with customer, internal, and regulatory requirements
• Support commercial and marketing opportunities for Engineering including generating technical portions of proposals
• Keep project and engineering management advised of project progress, performance, and resource utilization with particular attention to delays, adverse trends, errors and omissions
• Work with Chief Consulting Engineers to coordinate Engineering Design Reviews as required for successful completion of the project
• Review engineering performance on the project to ensure quality, conformance with design process, procedures and completeness of engineering tasks
• Promptly review Design Change notices, identify change order candidates, segregate cost collection, and assist the Project Manager in pertinent aspects of change order management
• Perform Responsible Configuration Management reviews as required for assigned projects.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, or Computer Science from an accredited college or university
• Minimum of 10 years of power industry project management, design, or operation experience

Desired Characteristics

• Knowledge of nuclear business products, business processes, customers, and competitive environment
• Demonstrated ability in meeting project budget, schedule, and quality commitments
• Excellent Leadership, influencing, communication, and presentation skills
• Experience working with Government contracts and contracting requirements
• Ability and willingness to travel
• Experience in boiling water or advanced reactors and/or equivalent technical environment
• Prior experience working with architect engineer / subcontractors
• IT / Computer competency
• Proven ability to think strategically, be creative and move quickly
• Established credibility with peers and managers based on experience
• Strong technical aptitude, including applicable engineering tools and systems
• Primavera project scheduling tool experience
• Graduate of GE leadership program (PMLP, JOLP, or similar)
• Six Sigma training (BB, DFSS, etc.) (GE Employees only)

This role may require splitting time between the GE Markham, ON, location and the OPG Oshawa office.

GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in Canada for this opening. This position requires access to and/or use of information subject to U.S. Export Control Laws, which mandate all citizenships be from the U.S. Department of Energy's List of Generally Authorized Countries (10 CFR Part 810 Appendix A); otherwise a specific authorization from the U.S. Department of Energy will be required. More information can be found

You must have legal authorization to work in Canada and any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation. The drug screen requirement in the background check process is not required if the role is based in Canada.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes