Sr. Program Manager, Project Engineering

Contract Role | Program Manager-Engineering in Chattanooga TNPay Range: $60-86/hour on w2Duration: 6 months contract with possible extension Job Description: This position is responsible for all engineering and technical oversight associated with assigned capital projects developed and executed by the respective department within GPFS. Duties include development of engineering contracts, control of project design, compliance with& industry standards, QA/QC, and management of engineering budgets & schedules. For assigned projects, this position leads engineering for scoping, study, design, procurement, construction, and ensures replication of engineering solutions. This role establishes and communicates engineering priorities to contract partners, project team members, and management. It also provides leadership and technical direction to the project design and execution team while ensuring quality products from design firms, contractors and OEMs meet or exceed project requirements.

• Weekly in-person or teams meetings or more often if needed to review all projects going over the PM and PrgMrgs separate to do list to help keep each other from missing anything.
• Keeps a log of all engineering milestones to make sure engineering partners and projects in phase one and phase two are tracking the milestones and doing everything needed to not miss these milestones.
• Raises the flags as early as possible if any milestones are not on track.
• Facilitates all JPTs for phase 1 and 2 meetings, leading the meetings with the engineering partners.
• Ensures all items needed for design packages are being turned in in a timely manner.
• Go-to between the engineering partners and the plant engineering teams.
• Works with vendor engineering teams if needing items from them.
• Keeps tracks of the engineering POs, making sure they are in budget and informs partner and myself if they are getting close to cost and if there needs to be a revision.
• Notifies PM when invoices are in and approved in an expeditious manner.
• Reaches out to engineering partners to make sure fee evaluations are done in a timely manner and not holding up the project from closing.
• Follows the project tracking method that the PM keeps seeing when RFP packages are needed for projects beginning or changing from phase to phase.
• Keeps PM informed of the proposal reviews and discuss together their thought process on the best partner for that project.
• Captures lessons learned along the way.
• Clean up late DCN reports from prior program managers.
• Responds to emails and calls in a very timely manner.
• Makes PM/PrgMgr communication a priority.
• Goes to all sites visits required plus visits that are not.
• Emphasizes safety expectations during meetings.