Sr. Project Engineer

Sr. Project Engineer

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As a Senior Project Engineer, you will drive improvements in production of Motion, NEMA Motors in Fort Smith, Arkansas. In this role, you will be playing a crucial role in designing, developing and implementing production processes with a focus on project management and helping develop manufacturing engineers into successful project managers.

This position reports to

Manufacturing Engineering Manager

Your responsibilities

• Lead the project team, establish the project execution approach and oversee project hand over, execution planning and monitoring and control activities for both internal and external resources in order to accomplish all project goals, coaching and providing performance feedback for project staff
• Actively contribute to continuous improvement by adopting external best practices, conducting project reviews, competency assessments and seeking both internal and external improvement opportunities, while actively participating in groups within ABB
• Support local Management team and take actions to close potential gaps in project execution capacity
• Ensure that the project follows execution best practices and ABB policies, effectively monitoring and controlling project progress and efficient resource utilization
• Monitor project financials, managing risks, capturing and sharing lessons learned and driving formal project acceptance and contract close out while ensuring customer acknowledgment in accordance with the contract
• Ensure project compliance with company health, safety and environmental policies, create HSE (Health, Safety & Environment) plans, implement common HSE policies and reporting across the project, collaborate with partners and sub suppliers and take unique actions to enhance site safety and maintain consistent HSE performance
• Lead project recovery efforts, conducting rapid assessments of troubled projects and providing support, offering specific recommendation for remediation
• Prepares RFQs (Request for quotation) to meet contractual requirements and provides technical evaluation of suppliers proposals
• Expertly define and apply advanced project scheduling techniques to proactively manage schedule risks, utilize the earned value method to optimize the schedule's critical path and project float, consistently employ schedule management as the primary tool for large projects, continually drive planning and scheduling improvement, manage project planning and control specialists (if applicable) to forecast bottlenecks in advance and effectively plan, track and follow up on document deliverables in accordance with the contractual scope of work

Your background

• Bachelor of Science degree in engineering or a related technical curriculum is required with minimum 5 to 8 years of project management experience
• PMP Certification or willingness to achieve
• Six sigma Green Belt or willingness to achieve
• Lean Certification, AutoCAD and SolidWorks is preferred
• BUS/SAP Experience desirable
• Experience with Microsoft project
• Experience leading team of subject matter experts to develop complete scopes, and RFQ's (Request for quotation)
• Experience with Capex justifications and planning
• Candidates must already have a work authorization that would permit them to work for ABB in the US

Benefits

• Retirement plan
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Healthcare plan
• Wellbeing program

More about us

ABB's NEMA Motors Division markets, designs and manufactures the market-leading Baldor-Reliance® brand of industrial motors. As the #1 global manufacturer of NEMA motors, our quality products are designed to reliably and efficiently meet the challenges our customers face. Our business is investing in technology, tools, people and processes to ensure our general purpose and application-specific solutions perform as expected, every time. We look forward to receiving your application. If you want to discover more about ABB, take another look at our website www.abb.com. Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action at ABB ABB is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Affirmative Action Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, creed, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, citizen status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status, family medical leave status, or protected veterans status. For more information regarding your (EEO) rights as an applicant, please visit the following websites: https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/EEOC_KnowYourRights_screen_reader_10_20.pdf https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/OFCCP/pdf/pay-transp_%20English_formattedESQA508c.pdf As an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, applicants may request to review the Affirmative Action Plan of a particular ABB facility between the hours of 9:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. EST Monday through Friday by contacting an ABB HR Representative at 1-888-694-7762. Protected veterans and qualified individuals with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access ABB's career site as a result of your disability. You may request reasonable accommodations by calling an ABB HR Representative at 1-888-694-7762 or by sending an email to [email protected]. Resumes and applications will not be accepted in this manner.