Job Description
Title: Project E&I Engineer - Refinery
Location: Lemont, IL
Hire Type: Long Term Open-Ended Contract (Multi-Year, No End Date)
Hire Type: Long Term Open-Ended Contract (Multi-Year, No End Date)
Pay Rate: $50-75 per hour
Compensation & Benefits
As a contract employee of Sterling Engineering, you'll receive a full, competitive benefits package, including:
- Three Medical Plan Options
- Dental & Vision Coverage
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
- Paid Time Off & Paid Holidays
Sterling Engineering is seeking a Project E&I Engineer to support capital improvement projects at a large, highly automated industrial manufacturing and refining facility. You'll gain hands-on experience leading technically challenging projects in a safety-driven, fast-paced environment with significant opportunities to expand your project management and refinery engineering expertise.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage assigned electrical and instrumentation capital projects from scope development through commissioning and startup
- Develop project scopes, cost estimates, schedules, and execution plans
- Monitor project budgets, cash flow forecasts, schedules, and overall project performance
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams including Operations, Process Engineering, Reliability, Construction, and Maintenance
- Manage engineering contractors, material procurement, and project documentation throughout the project lifecycle
- Review engineering designs to ensure quality, constructability, safety, and regulatory compliance
- Lead project change management activities, including Management of Change (MOC) documentation
- Facilitate Pre-Startup Safety Reviews (PSSRs) to support safe equipment commissioning and startup
- Provide technical support during construction, installation, startup, and project closeout
- Ensure projects are completed safely, on schedule, within budget, and meet operational objectives
Qualifications
- Must have a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from an accredited university
- Must have at least 2 years of Electrical & Instrumentation engineering experience in a refining or chemical processing environment
- Experience supporting capital projects in refining, chemical processing, power generation, or other heavy industrial environments
- Needs a strong working knowledge of instrumentation engineering standards and best practices
- Experience managing project scope, budgets, schedules, and contractor activities
- Familiarity with Management of Change (MOC) processes and industrial safety practices
Why You'll Love This Opportunity
- Work on impactful capital projects supporting one of the nation's critical industrial facilities
- Gain experience managing projects from concept through startup and commissioning
- Collaborate with experienced multidisciplinary engineering and operations teams
- Build expertise in project management, refinery systems, and industrial process engineering
- Diverse project work that offers technical challenges and professional growth
- Safety-focused culture with established engineering processes and best practices
- Excellent opportunity to expand your experience in large-scale industrial project execution
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Downers Grove, IL |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $50–$75 Per Hour |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1969 |
| Website | http://www.sterling-engineering.com |
About Company
Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:
- Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.
- Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.
Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.
Skills
- Best Practicesunmatched
- Budget Managementunmatched
- Budgetingunmatched
- Capital Projectunmatched
- Cash Flowunmatched
- Change Managementunmatched
- Commissioningunmatched
- Compensation and Benefitsunmatched
- Constructionunmatched
- Construction Supportunmatched
- Cost Estimatesunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Documentationunmatched
- Electrical Engineeringunmatched
- Electricityunmatched
- Engineeringunmatched
- Engineering Managementunmatched
- Environmental Chemistryunmatched
- Forecastingunmatched
- Health Planunmatched
- Industrial Engineeringunmatched
- Instrumentationunmatched
- Instrumentation Engineeringunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Manufacturing/Industrial Processesunmatched
- Operations Processesunmatched
- Power Generationunmatched
- Process Developmentunmatched
- Process Engineeringunmatched
- Project Close-Outunmatched
- Project Estimatesunmatched
- Project Executionunmatched
- Project Lifecycleunmatched
- Project Scheduleunmatched
- Project Start-Upunmatched
- Project Trackingunmatched
- Project/Program Managementunmatched
- Purchasing/Procurementunmatched
- Regulatory Complianceunmatched
- Reliability Engineeringunmatched
- Safety Complianceunmatched
- Safety Processunmatched
- Startupunmatched
- System Start-Upunmatched
- Technical Leadershipunmatched
- Technical Supportunmatched
- Technical/Engineering Designunmatched
- Time Managementunmatched
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