Project Engineer

General Job Description:

Project Engineers at Crane Cryogenics are responsible for managing projects of all sizes through their project life cycle. Employees in this position take full responsibility for the design/engineering duties associated with the projects they are assigned. In this role the Project Engineer will also be responsible for developing concept designs, identifying and preparing change order quotations, sourcing materials and services, and working with the Project Manager to execute all contractual obligations throughout the project life cycle. The Project Engineer is the technical lead and primary customer Point of Contact for all assigned projects.

The identification of Duties, Functions and Responsibilities does not display an exhaustive list of all duties that may be assigned to this position, nor does it restrict the related work that may be assigned to this position.

Essential Job Functions and Responsibilities

- Provide feedback to other departments to learn and become more efficient.

- Present current project status and answer questions during meetings with all business units.

- Handle overall design/engineering duties involved in projects.

- Understand customer compliance requirements and specifications.

- Have complete understanding of relevant codes (NFPA, ASME, CGA, Etc.)

- Support the company’s policies, processes, and procedures.

- Create detailed piping layouts.

- Gather project details for customers.

- Provide rapid response time/exceed customer expectations.

Minimum Education (or substitute experience) required :

- Bachelor’s Degree required or 5 or more years of equivalent experience.

Basic Skills

- Communicate with others to convey information effectively.

- Give full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.

- Understand basic sentence structure, grammar rules, written sentences, and paragraphs in work related documents.

- Understand the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.

- Use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.

- Be detail oriented and organized.

Social Skills

- Bring others together and try to reconcile differences.

- Be aware of others' reactions and understand why they react as they do.

- Actively looking for ways to help people.

- Adjust actions in relation to others' actions.

Resource Management Skills:

- Manage one's own time and the time of others.

- Determine how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.

- Motivate, develop, and direct people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.

- Obtain and ensure the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.

Technical Skills:

- Analyze project requirements and understanding what is required to complete projects/tasks.

- Knowledge of cryogenic systems/piping design.

- Knowledge of cryogenic fluids and safety.

- Knowledge of competitor product.

- Have welding, soldering, and fabrication knowledge.

- Understand applicable codes and how they affect the way we built the components we are selling.

- Have engineering/design capabilities.

- Experience in modeling/drafting/stress analysis.

System Skills:

- Consider the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.

- Determine how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.

- Identify measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.

Work Activities:

- Remain in constant communication with appropriate sale representative/engineer for each project.

- Establish and maintaining interpersonal relationships.

- Obtain information and project details.

- Communicate with supervisors, peers, or subordinates.

- Organize, plan, and prioritize work.

- Communicate with persons outside of organization.

- Resolve conflicts and negotiating with others.

- Make Decisions and solve problems.

- Interact with customers.

- Develop objectives and strategies.

Tasks and Detailed Work Activities:

- Maintain knowledge of all current project schedules.

- Maintain constant communication with key stakeholders, internal & external, while in and out of the office.

- Maintain a “Crane Cryogenics Level” of quality on all projects.

- Visit/travel to current and future jobsites as needed.

- Read and understand construction documents.

- Visit establishments to evaluate needs or to promote product or service sales.

- Provide seamless project management through proper turnover (delegation), as required.

- Complete expense reports, project reports, or other paperwork.

- Inform customers of estimated delivery schedules, service contracts, warranties, or other information pertaining to purchased products.

- Travel to various parts of the US and internationally.

- Study product information to acquire professional knowledge.

- Demonstrate products to consumers.

- Discuss design or technical features of products or services with technical personnel.

- Distribute promotional literature or samples to customers.

- Explain technical product or service information to customers.

- Gather customer or product information to determine customer needs.

- Make travel arrangements for flights, hotels, rental cars.

- Sketch, draw, and design proposed systems with all necessary components, safety requirements and details.

- Quote all prices or other bid specifications per Crane Cryogenics policies.

- Answer customers' questions about products, prices, availability, or credit terms.

- Emphasize product features based on analyses of customers' needs and on technical knowledge of product capabilities and limitations.

- Compute customer's installation or production costs and estimate savings for new services, products, or equipment.

- Work with Design/Engineering department to ensure completeness prior to manufacturing.

- Attend events to develop professional knowledge.

Technology & Computer Skills & Software

- Databases - Use a computer application to manage information, including creating/editing simple databases, inputting data, retrieving specific records, and creating reports to communicate the information.

- Graphics - Work with pictures in graphics programs or other applications, including creating simple graphics, manipulating the appearance, and inserting graphics into other programs.

- Internet - Use a computer application to create, manipulate, edit, and show virtual slide presentations.

- Navigation - Use scroll bars, a mouse, and dialog boxes to work within the computer's operating system. Be able to access and switch between applications and files of interest.

- Presentations - Navigate the Internet to find information, including the ability to open and configure standard browsers; use searches, hypertext references, and transfer protocols; and send and retrieve electronic mail.

- Spreadsheets - Use a computer application to enter, manipulate, and format text and numerical data; insert, delete, and manipulate cells, rows, and columns; and create and save worksheets, charts, and graphs.

- Word Processing - Use a computer application to type text, insert pictures, format, edit, print, save, and retrieve word processing documents.

- Virtual Meetings – Set up and attend virtual meetings using a variety of different platforms.

- Personal, Notebook and Tablet Computers - Customer relationship management (CRM software), database user interface and query software, enterprise resource planning (ERP software), analytical or scientific software, QuickBooks Enterprise accounting software, transaction security and virus protection software, Microsoft Office Suite software (PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Access, Publisher, Outlook/Exchange), business intelligence and data analysis software, calendar and scheduling software, data mining software, information retrieval or search software, internet browser software, network security and virtual private network.

- Measuring & Drafting Equipment – Use calculators, laser tape measures, levelling equipment, drafting scale, triangles, templates, French curve, compass & sketchpads.

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This description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work being performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Crane Company. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, general identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.