Job Description

Engineering Project Manager – Pulp & Paper

General Summary of Duties: The engineering project manager is responsible for execution and management of engineering for Pulp & Paper projects. The engineering project manager is the primary contact with clients and is responsible for management of the project scope, budget, and schedule.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Background working with coordinated drives for paper machines.
• Represents the organization when meeting with clients and other organizations
• Responsible for the project scope, budget, and schedule on assigned projects and estimates on projects up to $200MM TIC.
• Leads a project team of engineers and designers to cost-effectively meet project requirements.
• Interact and communicate effectively with clients, senior management, discipline leaders, vendors, contractors, and other team members to coordinate project execution, report project status, and resolve project-related issues.
• Leads and facilitates project meetings with the project team, client, vendors, and contractors.
• Review the work of the project team and evaluate for completeness and accuracy.
• Visit client facilities and/or jobsites as needed to obtain information for project execution.
• Works with the Business Development group to develop new clients and new projects.
• Interacts with sister companies to execute work outside of the Yates Engineers company.
• Mentors other Project Managers on a daily basis.

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. 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.

• Education – A bachelor’s degree in an engineering curriculum is preferred.
• Experience –Minimum of 15 years total experience. Minimum of 7 years of design engineering experience in roles of increasing responsibility on power, industrial, and/or chemical projects in a consulting engineering atmosphere. Minimum of 5 years experience as a project manager.
• Leadership – Excels at management of client relationships, leading project teams, organization of projects, and solving problems.
• Communication Skills – Effectively makes presentations to clients for proposals and project status reports. Ability to speak effectively and lead meetings with clients, senior management, project teams, vendors, and contractors. Ability to read, analyze, and interpret engineering drawings. Ability to write detailed project reports and correspondence.
• Computer Skills – Proficient with the use of standard office tools and spreadsheets.
• Certificates, Licenses, Registrations – A PE license is preferred, but is not required.