Bareshaft Senior Project Engineer

Location: Renfrew, Scotland, United Kingdom, PA4 8XJ

Company: Chart Industries

The Opportunity

Available as a result of an internal promotion, the Senior Project Engineer is a key role responsible for managing special compressor projects from sales handover to final payment, ensuring they meet budget, quality, and delivery targets. You will serve as the customer's main point of contact, fostering strong relationships while managing project risks, schedules, and financials. With a focus on process improvement, you'll lead initiatives to enhance project management methodologies within the team. The role offers flexibility with hybrid working and occasional international travel, supporting both customer and supplier engagements.

Who are we

Chart Industries is a leading global manufacturer of highly engineered equipment servicing multiple applications in the clean energy and industrial gas markets. Chart employees over 11,700 people based across 64 global manufacturing locations and 50+ service centres. Recognised for an innovative edge and expansive portfolio, Chart has a global leadership position in process technologies with products and services in applications such as hydrogen, carbon capture, energy recovery, nuclear, water treatment, mining, and LNG to name a few.

In 2023, Chart acquired Howden, a leading global engineering business. Since 1854, Howden has been at the forefront of developing engineering solutions for the needs of industrial processes. Today, Howden provide mission critical air and gas handling products to clients with our range of highly engineered compressors, blowers, fans, steam turbines and rotary heat exchangers.

The strategic combination of Howden and Chart expands our offering of products and solutions across the Nexus of Clean™ -- clean power, clean water, clean food and clean industrials. Together we are advancing a more sustainable future, by helping our customers to increase their environmental & functional efficiencies and decarbonise their operations. We have a strong corporate identity and a clear purpose - you will be a member of our team shaping the future of the company and participating in helping our customers tackle some of the planet's most pressing issues.

What will you do

• Ensure adherence to company environmental, health, and safety standards in compliance with companypolicies to ensure a safe working environment and the minimisation of environmental impact.

• Manage special bare shaft projects from handover to completion of delivery and receipt of final payment.

• Interact with the sales managers to support timely, accurate and fully detailed handovers of new projects.

• Book projects in the MRP system ensuring accurate forecasting of deliveries and invoicing.

• Create Project Datasheet which accurately captures all project requirements.

• Load projects into the document control system ensuring appropriate document requirement dates arespecified. Ensure documentation schedule remains on time.

• Work with Project Coordinator to manage project schedule, specifically managing any deviation from thebaseline by establishing priorities and driving recovery to baseline.

• Liaise with Operations team to ensure projects are prioritised in line with Business needs and that each phase – ranging from material receipts through to machining, assembly and test remains on track.

• Collaborate closely to identify risk and delays, developing recovery plans as needed, to mitigate potentialimpacts on project timelines

• Regularly report on full project status both internally and externally.

• Understand and manage project budget and accurately forecast costs and cashflow. Quickly identify andmanage deviation from budget. Drive margin growth.

• Identify and manage change resulting from variation in customer requirements.

• Ensure accurate forecasting and timely issue of invoicing, monitor and manage receipt of payment.

• Lead the review, improvement and updating of bare shaft project management processes in line withproject management methodologies and capture in Business Management System.

• Support the training, continuous development and tracking of knowledge and skills within the Bareshaftprojects team.

• Deputise for the General Manager – Projects Bare Shaft as needed.

• Coordinate workload within the team of Project Coordinators and Project Engineers

What do you bring

Essential skills, knowledge & behaviours

• Prior experience of managing projects or close involvement in management of projects in a manufacturingenvironment.

• Commercial acumen / experience in dealing with customers and contracts.

• Confidence and experience to pro-actively solve problems, think laterally and identify corrective actions.

• Examples of leadership, negotiation, ability to influence and inter-personal skills – internal and customerfacing.

• Experience of successfully driving to meet required time, cost and quality baseline.

• Ability to work independently and at pace.

• Confidence and experience to pro-actively lead issue resolution.

• Computer literacy in Excel, Word, Outlook, MS Project or equivalent scheduling software.

• Excellent Time Management Skills

• Excellent Communications skills (Written and Oral)

Desirable skills, knowledge & behaviours

• Knowledge of compressors or other rotating machinery.

• Knowledge of Petrochemical, Oil and Gas, Refrigeration, Heat Pump, Biogas and Vapour Recovery.

Qualifications and Experience

• Educated to HNC level or higher in a relevant technical discipline.

• Project Management qualification is an advantage

We’ve put together some criteria that we think is important for this role, but don’t worry if your experience and expertise isn’t an exact match. If you feel that you can add value to our role and to Howden more broadly, we would welcome your application and be eager to learn more about you.

Our benefits

• A flexible, hybrid working environment

• Generous holiday entitlement package totalling 33 days annual leave

• Howden Pension Plan with a maximum employer contribution of 7%

• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, shared parental and adoption leave pay

• Free onsite parking

• Healthcare cash plan

• Group Life Assurance plan at 3x salary

• Group Income Protection plan

• Access to My Howden Benefits & Wellbeing Portal – Cycle2Work programme, range of discounts across various retailers, wealth of information to support health & wellbeing

• Dedicated Help@Hand Service – free counselling, physiotherapy, financial support, medical second opinion, remote GP, personal training, nutrition consultations etc

• Opportunity to be involved in our ESG ‘Bright Future’ initiatives – STEM ambassador & volunteering

Chart is an equal opportunity employer...

The Company intention in respect of recruitment, selection and promotion is to appoint the most suitable candidate for each job regardless of that person’s race, religious beliefs, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, age or disability.