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Project Development Engineer (PDE)

Client: Industrial Gases
Location Flexible: Long Beach, CA, OR Pasadena, TX, OR Baton Rouge, La area (your choice)
Benefits: Health, Vision, Dental, 401K, Paid Time Off, and paid holidays 
Duration: Long Term, on going, no end
Education: BS Engineering

We are seeking a Project Development Engineer (PDE) to lead the front end scope development phase for a variety of small to large capital projects, outages/turnarounds, and life extension analysis in our fleet of company owned and operated facilities (hydrogen, air separation, and others) located throughout North America.  

*    Budget Planning Responsibility: $5-50 million per project
*    Travel:  Position requires approximately 20-40% travel, domestic and international travel.

Principal Accountabilities:
*    High ethical standards - unwilling to compromise on worker safety and regulatory compliance requirements. Integrate safety culture into all phases of scoping and project development, to achieve zero injuries.
*    Scope and Estimates - Drive Front End Loading of large capital, turnaround, and life extension scopes for operating plants.  Work closely with operations, maintenance, and engineering functions to develop scopes based on risk evaluation.  Estimation of capital projects and turnarounds.  Identify long lead capital requirements.
*    Schedules - Develop schedules for capital projects and turnarounds, working with operations and commercial teams to prioritize business needs.
*    Financials - Write expenditure funding requests for capital projects and turnarounds. Familiarity with estimating financial impacts of proposed projects, such as with pay back periods, depreciation impacts, asset write off, etc.

Required Skills and Experience:
*    5+ years of experience in capital project management, maintenance, outages, and/or operations of brownfield industrial settings such as refineries, petrochemical, or industrial gases.
*    SAP or similar software to manage equipment PM's, cost reports, etc.
*    Development of scopes, estimates, and schedules with strong intrapersonal ('soft') skills
*    B.S. Mechanical/Chemical or similar Technical Engineering Degree
*    Ability to obtain Passport and TWIC card

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