Project Engineer IV

At GAF, we cover more than just buildings. We cover each other. Under this roof, you will have the tools and resources you need to grow and develop in your career. You will experience our incredible culture and will be empowered to support your teammates, your customers, and especially your community. Under this roof, we define the future while leading the present through our deep well of experience and our responsibility to the future to drive improvements and innovation in our products. We are GAF. And under this roof, we protect what matters most.

Job Summary
The Project Engineer IV is a recognized technical authority who handles the most critical, large-scale capital projects and is a subject matter expert (SME) for the project execution process and engineering standards. Operating at an advanced-to-expert level across technical and cognitive skills, they drive strategic thinking, high-level risk management, and successful execution. This role is also recognized as an expert in financial governance and the capital funding (AFCE) process.

Essential Duties

• Subject Matter Expertise: Serve as the primary technical authority for the plant's capital portfolio.

• Design Oversight: Approve major design deviations and provide high-level solutions for execution roadblocks ensuring all engineering solutions meet or exceed standards.
  Mentor other engineers on sound engineering principles and designs

• High-Level Decision Making: Lead critical decision-making processes, utilizing expert-level data analysis, reasoning, and risk identification.

• Project Execution Process: Serve as the recognized SME of standards, ensuring projects do not advance to the next phase without a fully defined scope, budget, and adherence to the Project Execution Process and engineering standards.

• Implementation:  Plan and manage on-site contractor activity.

• Strategic Planning: Develop and present comprehensive business cases for critical, large-scale capital projects.

• Portfolio Management: Ensure projects do not move to the execution phase without a fully defined, locked-in scope, schedule and budget.

• Continuous Improvement: Drive high-level continuous improvement and adaptability strategies across the engineering department to prevent capital project delays or budget overruns.

• Cross-Functional Leadership: While operating as a senior Individual Contributor, leads cross-functional teams throughout the entire project lifecycle, managing complex scopes that include major site expansions and critical technology upgrades.

• Stakeholder Management: Leverage advanced communication skills to influence without authority, managing complex stakeholder relationships up to the executive level.

• Resource Balancing: Assist management in monitoring the workload of the project engineering team. Identify when external engineering firms are required to supplement internal execution capabilities.

• Talent Development: Assist in elevating the capabilities of the broader project engineering network through practical guidance, knowledge sharing, and translating lessons learned into best practices

• Perform other job duties as assigned

Qualifications Required

• Bachelor’s Degree Engineering

• 10+ years of experience in project engineering and/or project management

General Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Excellent interpersonal skills

• Strong attention to detail with a commitment to quality and accuracy

• Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously

• Ability to work effectively in a team environment

• Able to influence and lead others over whom he/she has no direct authority.

• Willing to drive for change in the interest of continuous improvement.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Able to work under limited supervision, make independent judgement and decisions as necessary.

• Excellent organization skills.

Technical Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Advanced proficiency in Google Suite

• Large capital project management capability

• Advanced knowledge of financial governance, the capital funding (AFCE) process, and large-scale portfolio management.

• Advanced knowledge of corporate engineering standards, acting as a recognized Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the project execution process.

• Ability to develop, analyze, and present comprehensive business cases for multi-million-dollar capital investments.

• Ability to evaluate, approve, and oversee major design deviations and provide high-level engineering solutions for execution roadblocks.

• Skill in expert-level root cause analysis to troubleshoot and solve problems

• Strong problem solving and analytical reasoning.

• Ability to develop, interpret and revise complex technical documents and engineering drawings.

• Expertise in standard manufacturing concepts, practices, and procedure

Qualifications Preferred

• 10+ years of experience within manufacturing or roofing/building products

• Advanced proficiency in engineering and project management tools.

• Ability to develop, interpret and revise technical documents and drawings.

• Demonstrated ability to develop, prioritize, and execute plans to deliver results on multiple projects.

• Large-scale capital project management skills.

Physical Demands

• Stationary Position - Occasionally

• Move/Traverse - Occasionally

• Stationary Position/Seated - Occasionally

• Transport/Lifting - Occasionally

• Transport/Carrying - Occasionally

• Exerting Force/Pushing - Occasionally

• Exerting Force/Pulling - Occasionally

• Ascend/Descend - Occasionally

• Balancing - Occasionally

• Position Self/Stooping - Occasionally

• Position Self/Kneeling - Occasionally

• Position Self/Crouching - Occasionally

• Position Self/Crawling - Rarely

• Reaching - Occasionally

• Handling - Occasionally

• Grasping - Occasionally

• Feeling - Rarely

• Communicate/Talking - Constantly

• Communicate/Hearing - Constantly

• Repetitive Motions - Frequently

• Coordination - Occasionally

Working Conditions

• Extreme cold - Occasionally

• Extreme heat - Occasionally

• Humid - Occasionally

• Wet - Occasionally

• Noise - Occasionally

• Hazards - Occasionally

• Temperature Change - Occasionally

• Vibration - Rarely

Dimensions
Number of Indirect Reports: 0
Number of Direct Reports: 0-2

Travel Requirements: Minimum 10% - 15% required for Plant based roles. 

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