Project Engineer

Project Engineer 
 

We are looking for a Project Engineer for our Plymouth, MI facility. The Project Engineer manages projects from scoping to commissioning, incorporating requirements from process engineers, production personnel, and senior management.  The Project Engineer plans projects to minimize costs and downtime, sources parts, equipment, and labor, and tracks project progress and spending.

Your Responsibilities:

• Serve as a project manager for projects generated by others. Projects will range in cost from $10,000 to upwards of $500,000.
• Create capital expenditure requests (Non-Order-Based Spending).
• Design simple mechanical solutions, including pipework and simple parts/structures.
• Maintain positive liaison with existing vendors.
• Source new vendors for parts, equipment, and labor.
• Obtain competitive quotations from multiple vendors.
• Identify and proposing upgrades and/or purchase of new equipment.
• Occasionally work with Quality to implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Work closely with the Financial Controller on project costing and tracking.

Your Profile:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Chemical, or Electrical Engineering.
• U.S. Citizen or Green Card Holder.
• Knowledge and ability to use basic manual and powered tools.
• 5+ years of project experience in industrial environments.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint is required. Working knowledge CAD required. Proficiency three-dimensional CAD is preferred.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills. Ability to work within a cross-functional team. Ability to foster and maintain relationships with vendors.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Proficiency interpreting mechanical drawings (e.g. pipework and instrumentation diagrams, CAD drawings of parts and structures).
• Willingness to get hands-on with dirty, noisy, and hot equipment when help is needed.

We offer:

Aside from a dynamic global culture and leading market position, we are proud to offer our employees development opportunities, competitive salary and a robust benefit program ALL available on first day of employment!

The perks and benefits of working at Oerlikon include the following:

• Comprehensive medical and prescription drug plan with low premiums, company sponsored HSA contributions and without cumbersome waiting periods to keep you going strong.  
• Excellent Dental and Vision coverage.
• Employee Assistance, Financial and Wellness programs to help improve all aspects of your life journey. 
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with significant company match and financial planning and education options to help you achieve your retirement goals 
• Tuition reimbursement and internal education resources to satisfy your love of learning so you can continue to grow with us!
• Generous paid time off to support your physical and mental wellbeing.
• 12 paid company holidays to occasionally extend your weekends or time off. 
• Flexible hours or remote work environment available for certain positions
• 100% company paid life insurance and disability insurance
• Employee Referral Bonus program because why not to bring your friends to work everyday!

Why Oerlikon:

Every one of us has the chance to be more curious; to bring a new innovations and ideas in our work and to our customers in the automotive, aerospace, energy, tooling, polymer processing and additive manufacturing sectors, and in doing this, we can reaffirm our customers’ and strategic partners’ trust.

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Are you curious? Then release your passion to succeed and APPLY to discover how you can help us build a better world and realize how you can make a personal difference by joining our global team! Our commitment is your success!

About us
 
Oerlikon is a global innovation powerhouse for surface engineering, polymer processing and additive manufacturing in key industries such as aerospace, automotive, energy, tooling and textiles. We serve as a key partner in enabling our customers to reach their targets for optimizing the performance, function and sustainability of their products and manufacturing processes. 
Our solutions reduce emissions in transportation, maximize longevity and performance of tools, increase energy efficiency and advance intelligent material and sustainable polymer processing. These achievements are proven hallmarks of our global leadership. 
 
We at Oerlikon embrace diversity. This is reflected in more than 11,800 employees, representing over 93 nationalities and our presence in more than 38 countries and 207 locations worldwide. 
 
Oerlikon is an Equal Opportunity Employer striving to promote a diverse and inclusive workforce, and is dedicated to unbiased recruiting, hiring and employment practices. Oerlikon takes affirmative action to ensure candidates are considered without regard to their race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, creed, age, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, parental status, disability, veteran status, and any other legally protected characteristic. If you’d like more information on your EEO rights under the law, please click here Know Your Rights.
 
If you are unable to complete an application or respond to a job opening because of a disability, please contact us at Americas.hr@oerlikon.com or recruiter.us@oerlikon.com. This contact information is for accessibility requests only and is not intended for inquiries about the status of applications or for third party vendors / agencies inquiries or requests.
 
Oerlikon will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

Learn more about Oerlikon: 
https://www.oerlikon.com/en/brands/

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