Project Engineer

GENERAL INFORMATION LOCATION: * City: La Rochelle * Country: France * Region: Europe JOB CATEGORY: Industrial JOB TYPE: Regular TYPE OF CONTRACT: Permanent WORKING TIME: Full-time WORK SCHEDULE: Day shift Solvay is a science company whose technologies bring benefits to many aspects of daily life. With more than 24,100 employees in 64 countries, Solvay bonds people, ideas and elements to reinvent progress. The Group seeks to create sustainable shared value for all, notably through its Solvay One Planet plan crafted around three pillars: protecting the climate, preserving resources and fostering better life. The Group’s innovative solutions contribute to safer, cleaner, and more sustainable products found in homes, food and consumer goods, planes, cars, batteries, smart devices, health care applications, water and air purification systems. Founded in 1863, Solvay today ranks among the world’s top three companies for the vast majority of its activities and delivered net sales of €10.2 billion in 2019. Solvay is listed on Euronext Brussels (SOLB) and Paris and in the United States, where its shares (SOLVY) are traded through a Level I ADR program. The Industrial function’s role is to help the Solvay Group in safety initiatives and support the group's transformation in operational excellence. JOB OVERVIEW AND RESPONSIBILITIES We are looking for experienced mechanical project engineers (layout, piping, turnkey package and equipment) who wish to evolve to a position of project manager on a chemical industrial site. Perimeter: Referring to the Site Engineering Office Manager, you lead a portfolio of industrial investment projects (generally below 1 M€ or more depending on your experience) . Mission and Main Goals: * You are accountable for safety, cost, schedule and quality objectives of each project. * You optimize the project investment requirement and content through generation of new ideas or alternatives (conceptual or technical), leveraging technical skills and standard methods. * You plan each project taking into account that all detail engineering activities are subcontracted (eg: internal specialists, engineering companies, procurement plan, documentation for permitting) * You coordinate the different stakeholders (internal and external) to ease the projects execution, * You manage the project schedule by coordinating engineering and construction activities. * You communicate with the other PMs and your manager to anticipate resource conflict and facilitate arbitration. * You involve maintenance and production teams to facilitate the handover of the projects. Main output: * Cost estimation and schedule for basic engineering and execution stages. * Issue the project execution plan. * Organization of the activities to ensure effectiveness of internal and external resources. * Make periodic safety, quality, cost and schedule controls with the related short reports. * Control and validation of payments to the suppliers (engineering, equipment and other materials or services). * Specific technical analysis and studies. * Organize and participate in the design and constructability reviews. * Tender technical specification and purchasing management for material ( equipment and piping). * Tender technical specification and purchasing management for construction contracts (civil, steel structures, equipment and piping erection, electricity and instrumentation) * Coordination of all the documentation necessary to obtain the construction and production permits * Check the progress of the site construction activities and put in place corrective actions * Issue the mechanical acceptance certificate of the installations within timing & budget settled. EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE * Degree in mechanical or similar * Experience of around 5 years in mechanical engineering (layout, equipment, piping) combined with project management. SKILLS * Professional English and Fluent French or Italian (depending on sites). * Ability to work in parallel on different projects. * Deep knowledge of mechanical engineering (layout, equipment, piping). * Good knowledge of industrial project management and other engineering disciplines. * Very good ability to communicate with all project stakeholders. * Open-mindedness to identify improvement opportunities. * Impact and influence on the project team and project owner. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION