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Lead Project Engineer
Clayton Services
🇺🇸 United States
Hybrid
Staff / Principal
2 months ago
$155,000 – $190,000 / year
- Acceptance Testing
- PMP
- Pension
2 months ago
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The ideal Lead Project Engineeris a hands-on engineering leader who thrives in a collaborative environment and enjoys solving technical challenges while coordinating with customers, suppliers, manufacturing partners, and internal engineering teams. This position offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact while working on highly customized equipment designed for demanding industrial applications.
Job Type:Direct Hire
Pay Rate:$155,000 - $190,000+, depending on experience
Benefits:Competitive benefits package, flexible paid time off, hybrid work schedule, retirement plan, professional development opportunities, and additional benefits.
Lead Project Engineer Responsibilities:
- Lead multiple engineering projects from initial planning through manufacturing, installation, commissioning, and final customer acceptance.
- Serve as the primary technical contact for customers throughout the life of each project while building strong professional relationships.
- Develop project schedules, monitor milestones, identify potential risks, and help ensure projects remain on schedule and within budget.
- Coordinate engineering activities between mechanical, electrical, controls, manufacturing, procurement, and field service teams.
- Review customer specifications and translate technical requirements into practical engineering solutions.
- Provide technical direction throughout equipment design, fabrication, assembly, testing, and startup activities.
- Collaborate with suppliers and manufacturing partners to resolve technical issues and ensure equipment is built according to project requirements.
- Participate in design reviews and evaluate engineering solutions with consideration for safety, manufacturability, reliability, serviceability, and overall project objectives.
- Support equipment testing, factory acceptance testing, installation planning, startup activities, and field troubleshooting as necessary.
- Identify opportunities to improve project execution, engineering processes, documentation, and communication across multiple departments.
- Prepare project documentation, technical reports, engineering change documentation, and customer deliverables.
- Travel periodically to customer facilities, supplier locations, manufacturing partners, and project sites as required.
- Strong project leadership skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to interact effectively with customers, vendors, and cross-functional teams.
- Demonstrated ability to solve complex engineering problems while balancing technical requirements, budgets, and project schedules.
- Strong understanding of industrial manufacturing processes, engineered equipment, and mechanical systems.
- Ability to make sound technical decisions while working independently in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail.
- Comfortable working in a collaborative environment where initiative, accountability, and adaptability are highly valued.
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related engineering discipline required.
- 10+ years of project engineering, systems engineering, or project management experience within an industrial manufacturing or engineered equipment environment.
- Experience managing customer-driven engineering projects from concept through installation and commissioning.
- Experience working with custom equipment, engineered systems, industrial machinery, automation equipment, or related products.
- Previous experience coordinating suppliers, manufacturing partners, and cross-functional engineering teams.
- Working knowledge of fabrication, machining, assembly processes, and industrial manufacturing practices.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is a plus but not required.
- Ability to travel as needed to support customer projects.
Lead Project Engineer · Clayton Services