Project Engineer / Operations Manager - Mechanical Specialty Services (Testing & Torquing)
Kiewit
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Job Description
Job Level: Senior Level
Home District/Group: Kiewit Quality
Department: Quality
Market: Transportation
Employment Type: Full Time
Position Overview
Kiewit is seeking a Project Engineer / Operations Manager to support our growing Mechanical Specialty Services group. This team provides technical expertise, engineering support, specialized equipment, and self-perform services for critical mechanical activities including pressure testing, bolting/torquing, tensioning, and related specialty work across projects.
This is a unique hybrid role that combines engineering, operations, technical support, and field engagement. You'll serve as one of the company's subject matter experts for mechanical specialty services while helping expand an internal self-perform organization that supports projects throughout North America.
This position is primarily based in the Houston/Freeport area and requires periodic travel to project sites to provide technical support, training, and operational oversight.
District Overview
Kiewit’s Quality Group is a shared service that maintains and executes quality standards on projects across the company. Our principal quality objectives are to meet or exceed clients’ expectations and to eliminate rework by performing our work “right the first time.” We monitor our performance against these objectives and require continual improvement.
Location
This position will be based out of the Houston / Freeport Yard area.
Responsibilities
Provide technical expertise for mechanical specialty services, including pressure testing, hydraulic bolting/torquing, tensioning, and related field operations.
Serve as a technical resource for engineering, operations, estimating, and project teams regarding applicable codes, testing procedures, and industry best practices.
Support development and execution of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), including pneumatic and hydrostatic testing procedures.
Assist project teams with planning, estimating, equipment selection, and execution strategies for specialty mechanical work.
Support Kiewit's internal self-perform specialty services program by expanding capabilities previously subcontracted to outside vendors.
Coordinate specialized equipment utilized on projects, including hydraulic tooling, pressure testing equipment, and capital assets managed through Kiewit's internal equipment system.
Travel to project sites (approximately two trips per month) to provide technical support, training, and operational guidance.
Develop and deliver training for field personnel performing specialty mechanical work.
Partner with Quality, Engineering, Operations, and Equipment teams to ensure safe, compliant, and efficient execution.
Help establish best practices and continuously improve mechanical specialty service capabilities across the organization.
Qualifications
Required
Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Construction Management, or related technical discipline.
Experience with pressure testing, bolting/torquing, hydraulic tensioning, or related mechanical specialty services.
Background in piping, mechanical construction, maintenance, or refinery/industrial facilities.
Strong understanding of applicable industry codes and mechanical testing requirements.
Experience supporting field operations on industrial or EPC projects.
Ability to travel to project sites approximately every other week.
Preferred
PCC-2 (ASME Post Construction Committee) training or certification.
Experience developing testing procedures or engineering work packages.
Knowledge of hydraulic tooling and specialty mechanical equipment.
Experience supporting estimating or constructability reviews.
Experience working in refinery, petrochemical, LNG, power, or heavy industrial environments.
Other Requirements:
- Regular, reliable attendance
- Work productively and meet deadlines timely
- Communicate and interact effectively and professionally with supervisors, employees, and others individually or in a team environment.
- Perform work safely and effectively. Understand and follow oral and written instructions, including warning signs, equipment use, and other policies.
- Work during normal operating hours to organize and complete work within given deadlines. Work overtime and weekends as required.
- May work at various different locations and conditions may vary.
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.
About The Company
Kiewit
At Kiewit, the projects we deliver make a difference, and we offer opportunities for you to make one, too. Our construction and engineering professionals work on some of the industry’s most complex, challenging and rewarding projects – whether it’s boring tunnels through mountains, turning rivers into energy, or building bridges that connect communities. Kiewit people tackle important projects of every size, in any market. Start your Kiewit adventure today at kiewitjobs.com. Kiewit is one of North America’s largest and most respected construction and engineering organizations. With its roots dating back to 1884, the employee-owned organization operates through a network of subsidiaries in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Kiewit offers construction and engineering services in a variety of markets including transportation; oil, gas and chemical; power; building; marine; water/wastewater; industrial; and mining. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
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