Projects Planning Engineer

As Projects Planning Engineer, you champion the first stage of ISCO's Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) Projects and are involved throughout all project phases. This entails working directly with Production Planning, Manufacturing Facilities, and Sales to manage and support the fabrication scope of key projects from inception through completion. In the incipient/growth phase, you are the subject matter expert in the identification of key components, obstacles, and solutions relating to customer site plans and blueprints. In the steady state phase of projects, your involvement is consistent and repeatable as it relates to engineering activities. ISCO's level of quality, service, communication, and innovation, has built a reputation that results in new and repeat business with clients in a wide range of industries: EPC, Industrial, Municipal, Mining, Landfill, etc., all of which need engineering to be successful. This is an operations role that manages from Witherspoon with zero direct reports and involves occasional travel throughout the year to various ISCO sites for training, exposure, and team building. You engage in anywhere between four to twelve jobs at a time. Jobs can last from three months to two years.

You have direct communication and impact on the EPC Sales Team, outsourcing partners, customers, and you indirectly impact the fabrication shop. You are pivotal in the beginning project phases and necessary throughout the projects lifecycle to achieve our goal of improving service levels and setting up ISCO as our customers solution

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Analyze, dissect, and "spool out" customer isometrics

Interpret customer specific layout plans and design notes/restrictions

Determine fabrication components and make suggestions based on product properties

Communicate changes, updates, and next steps accurately and promptly

Continuous Improvement & Goal Setting:

Develop and track goals for continuous improvement in fabrication processes

Set and achieve utilization efficiency, quality, and safety targets in line with company objectives

ERP entry relating to work order release, inventory allocation, and bill of material manifestation

Review and approve ISCO CAD drawings based on project requirements

Communication with ISCO Project MGT Team to plan and discuss project engineering throughput and deadlines

Weekly production meetings with sales teams and operations management

Weekly executive brief to VP of Operations on all live projects

Weekly attendance of NCR (nonconformance review) meeting

Inventory count, reconciliation, and disposition throughout project lifecycles

Maintain a list of open RFIs (request for information) on EPC jobs

Collaborate toward 'yes' by identifying barriers and solutions

Provide products and services that are accurate and on-time

Part number creation, correction, and management over customer jobs

Conduct a debrief after each project and create/maintain a lesson learned log

Establish structure and methodology into processes which need revamping

Minimum Qualifications and Skills for Consideration:

Education: Qualified candidates will possess four-year bachelor's degree; or two to three years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience

Knowledge and business use of Microsoft Office products: Outlook, Power Point, Word, and Excel

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general fabrication documents, CAD Drawings, technical procedures, and quality documentation

Ability to write reports and business correspondence to effectively present information to internal and external stakeholders

Problem Solving: Ability to solve practical problems with identifying root cause and implementing countermeasures to correct

Clear communication of engineering jargon towards teammates, associates, and other professionals.

Effective ability to manage data, creating a strong, easily understandable story

College level understanding on algebraic methods.

Being coachable and able to teach

Project management

Tenacity towards continuous improvement

Detail orientation

Make decisions based on data

Desired Skill:

Understanding of material properties and limitations and ability to apply that toward piping systems

Ability to diagnose 3D model and make changes and suggestions

Flexibility amongst change

Inquisitive challenging of the norm

Past experience working on teams; we are all pulling on the same rope

Lead by influence; leads through others