Entry Level Project Engineer

Positions Available: Entry Level Project Engineer

Reports To: Engineering Manager

Job Type: Full-time FLSA Status: Exempt

Summary:

Lube-Power, Inc. (LPI) is a privately owned ISO 9001 certified essential small business founded in 1979. Our mission is to understand our clients’ businesses, budgets, and technical needs, enabling us to support them in accomplishing their goals. Our success is in our customer care, our quality of work and our employees. We are an equal opportunity employer seeking employees who agree with our values and take pride in their work. LPI’s main office and manufacturing facility is located in south east Michigan in a suburb north of Detroit. We have globally been an industry leader in oil lubrication systems for over 40 years. LPI also provides custom solutions and manufacturing for other special industrial fluid and gas equipment, and packaging for a wide range of rotating equipment and industries and continues to increase our reach and capabilities.

Project Engineers are the heart of each one of our custom engineered, build-to-order projects and are an integral part in what makes each project and our company successful.

The best part of working for Lube Power is hands down the most valuable asset, the people. When you work for a small company you have direct access to everyone, your team, your manager and the owners of the company. This gives you the opportunity to learn firsthand from their experience. You will have direct communication and build valuable relationships and hands-on experience and practical job skills that will benefit you throughout your career.

Feel free to visit us online at http://www.lubepower.com.

Responsibilities and Essential Functions:

The successful candidate is responsible for the overall project engineering and management function, including scope of supply, customer communication and management, engineering documents, scheduling, profitability and customer satisfaction keeping projects on schedule and in budget. The project engineer directs, coordinates, and exercises functional authority for planning, organization, control, integration and completion of engineering projects by performing the following duties:

- Reviews project scope of supply and provide contractual and technical direction and engineering sizing and selection to a drafting department for drawings and to purchasing and production for procurement of materials and final build, test and ship. Includes originating a bill of materials parts list,complete notes and procedure for construction and testing.

- Review and approve engineering design documents verses job requirements, scope of supply and sizing. Maintain document submittal and release dates as assigned.

- Completes engineering projects by organizing and controlling project scope and requirements. Generating and tracking commercial cost and delivery impacts and updating other departments on changes.

- Assessment of projects workload and schedule and priorities work to meet project deadlines.

- Completes technical sizing, selection of sub-supplier components and studies and prepares cost estimates to compare against the project budget.

- Lead company and customer or inspector group meetings in and out of the office by phone conference and in person. The successful candidate will be the main point of contact on all projects assigned to them.

- Verifies product performance by writing test and inspection procedures and facilitating tests.

- Controls project costs by approving expenditures and administering contract changes.

Benefits:

- Vision,Group Life, Medical, Dental, and STD/LTD Insurances.

- Employer contributes up to 70% cost of Medical and Dental premiums.

- Low deductible plans offered (both PPO and HMO).

- Employer contribution Simple IRA plan.

- Paid time off: Holidays, Vacation, PTO and Bereavement.

- Tuition Reimbursement is Available when directly related depending on performance as is participation in professional training, certifications, licenses and memberships.

- Clean and friendly work environment; Excellent Work/Life Balance.

- Minimal travel may be expected as required by project, below 5%. Most time will be spent in the office and production facility.

- Salary employees are required to work a minimum of 40 hours per week. Extra hours are at their own discretion to meet project deadlines with given work load. Flex time is available and approved at the manager’s discretion.

- Employee performance evaluations are conducted annually and our performance metrics and qualities measured are reflected in our performance evaluation, based on an individual's Quality of Work, Task Time Efficiency, Commitment, Self-Improvement and TEAMWORK.

- Successful candidates will be asked to sign a non-compete and Confidentiality agreement.

Qualifications / Skills / Personality Traits:

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required:

- Bachelors of Science or greater in Engineering

- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Tools such as Outlook, Excel, and Word.

- Technical Competency: Able to learn and absorb how complex mechanical and electrical equipment work and how to grasp sizing and selecting sub-parts of that equipment

- Honesty: Not afraid to ask questions or admit when something is not known or clear and owns up to mistakes so they can be corrected and used as a learning experience.

- Detail Oriented and organized

Salary: $52,000.00 to $80,000.00 /year depending on education and experience

If you are interested, please apply with your cover letter and resume. We look forward to hearing from you.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $52,000.00 - $80,000.00 per year

Benefits:

- 401(k)

- 401(k) matching

- Dental insurance

- Health insurance

- Health savings account

- Life insurance

- Paid time off

- Vision insurance

Work Location: In person