Job Description
Job Description
Job Description
Title: Project Engineer - Refinery
Location: Lemont, IL
Shift: 1st Shift
Hire Type: Long Term Open-Ended Contract (Multi-Year, No End Date)
Pay Rate: $50-80 per hour
Shift: 1st Shift
Hire Type: Long Term Open-Ended Contract (Multi-Year, No End Date)
Pay Rate: $50-80 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
This is an excellent opportunity for an engineer who enjoys owning projects from initial scope development through construction, commissioning, and startup. You'll work alongside multidisciplinary engineering, operations, construction, reliability, and process teams while gaining valuable experience with capital project execution, cost management, safety, and large-scale industrial infrastructure.
If you're looking for a role where you can take real ownership of projects, work with experienced technical teams, and see your engineering decisions implemented in the field, this is an excellent opportunity.
Key Responsibilities
- Plan, organize, and execute assigned capital projects from scope development through commissioning and startup
- Develop and maintain project scope, budgets, schedules, cost forecasts, and performance objectives
- Coordinate multidisciplinary project teams including Process Engineering, Electrical/Instrumentation, Reliability, Operations, Construction, and other technical groups
- Monitor project costs, cash flow, schedules, and overall project performance
- Manage project change orders and maintain effective scope and cost control
- Oversee outside engineering resources, contractors, and material quality requirements
- Execute detailed engineering design activities and support major equipment and material purchases
- Develop and maintain project documentation in accordance with established stage-gate processes
- Lead the Management of Change (MOC) process for assigned projects
- Lead Pre-Start-up Safety Reviews (PSSRs) to ensure projects are safely prepared for startup
- Support construction, commissioning, and startup activities to verify proper installation and project requirements
- Ensure projects meet safety, quality, environmental, regulatory, cost, schedule, and performance objectives
Qualifications
- Must have a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, or related engineering discipline
- Must have 5+ years of Project Engineering experience in a petroleum or chemical refinery
- Experience managing engineering or capital projects from concept through execution
- Strong understanding of project scope, cost, scheduling, and change management
- Ability to work effectively with multidisciplinary engineering and operations teams
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with PV Elite and/or CAESAR II
- Familiarity with industry codes such as ASME Section XIII and ASME B31.3
- Any responsibility for directly reviewing or actually doing pipe stress or pressure vessel analysis
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 | Lemont, IL |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $50–$80 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
- Budgetingunmatched
- Capital Projectunmatched
- Cash Flowunmatched
- Change Managementunmatched
- Change Order Managementunmatched
- Civil Engineeringunmatched
- Commissioningunmatched
- Compensation and Benefitsunmatched
- Constructionunmatched
- Construction Supportunmatched
- Cost Controlunmatched
- Cost Engineeringunmatched
- Cost Forecastingunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Documentationunmatched
- Electrical Engineeringunmatched
- Engineeringunmatched
- Engineering Managementunmatched
- Health Planunmatched
- Instrumentationunmatched
- Intergraph Caesar IIunmatched
- Intergraph PV Eliteunmatched
- Mechanical Engineeringunmatched
- Petroleumunmatched
- Process Engineeringunmatched
- Project Engineeringunmatched
- Project Estimatesunmatched
- Project Executionunmatched
- Project Scheduleunmatched
- Project Trackingunmatched
- Project/Program Coordinationunmatched
- Project/Program Managementunmatched
- Purchasing/Procurementunmatched
- Regulationsunmatched
- Safety/Work Safetyunmatched
- Startupunmatched
- Team Playerunmatched
- Technical/Engineering Designunmatched
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