Chief Project Engineer Mechanical

Wärtsilä Energy leads the transition towards a 100% renewable energy future. We help our partners to accelerate their decarbonisation journeys through our market-leading technologies and power system modelling expertise. These cover decarbonisation services, future-fuel enabled balancing power plants, hybrid solutions, energy storage and optimisation technology, including the GEMS Digital Energy Platform.

Did you know Wärtsilä has delivered 79 GW of power plant capacity and more 125 energy storage installations in 180 countries around the world?

In this fast changing world of energy, we are constantly on the lookout for future-oriented talent to join our team and to work towards enabling sustainable societies through innovation in technology and services - together. Want to join the ride?

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Wärtsilä Energy leads the transition towards a 100% renewable energy future. We help our customers unlock the value of the energy transition by optimising their energy systems and future-proofing their assets. Our offering comprises flexible power plants, energy management systems, and storage, as well as lifecycle services that ensure increased efficiency and guaranteed performance. Wärtsilä has delivered 73 GW of power plant capacity in 180 countries around the world.
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Wärtsilä is a global leader in smart technologies and complete lifecycle solutions for the marine and energy markets. By emphasising sustainable innovation, total efficiency and data analytics, Wärtsilä maximises the environmental and economic performance of the vessels and power plants of its customers. In 2020, Wärtsilä’s net sales totalled EUR 4.6 billion with approximately 18,000 employees. The company has operations in over 200 locations in more than 70 countries around the world. Wärtsilä is listed on Nasdaq Helsinki. Find out more at www.wartsila.com.

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In this era of innovation and fast changing world of energy, we are constantly on the lookout for future-oriented talent to join our team and to work towards enabling sustainable societies with smart technology - together. Want to join the ride?

Chief Project Engineer, Mechanical

Wärtsilä Energy Business is looking for a Chief Project Engineer, Mechanical to plan and execute mechanical works for Engine Power Plants. Location for this position is in Houston, Texas, USA. Partial remote working is also possible, working outside from Wärtsilä´s premises from a preferred location in USA.

To succeed in this position, you are expected to hold B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering (or similar). We expect minimum 5 years of experience in mechanical Engineering or Project Management within Wärtsilä. Working in multicultural environment, you have cultural knowledge and excellent communication and team working skills. As a Chief Project Engineer, you will be responsible for the whole own discipline or a defined part of the scope in project execution towards the Project Manager for the project.

As a Chief Project Engineer, you should also be pro-active and have cost awareness and effectiveness skills i.e. working as a lead engineer for own discipline as well as working with interphases towards other disciplines and customer.

Main responsibilities

• To be a representative of the company and have technical ownership of assigned tasks or projects
• Manage project activities, integration engineering and technical correspondence with customers, vendors and cross functional stakeholders as well as internal team members
• Plan and safeguard execution of activities with the total cost, schedule and customer specific needs in focus according to standards and contract requirements, specifications, instructions and policies
• Actively participate in customer, vendor and stakeholder negotiations and maintain good relationships
• Identify, mitigate, monitor and report risks, quality issues, use of resources, cost, schedule and scope issues in projects and for products and work process improvement 
• Support project and sales teams in complex projects and stakeholders with concepts and product solutions maintaining and developing knowledge in the global organisation 

Development responsibilities

• Participate in developing and maintaining of tools and work methods in own responsibility area
• To give, collect and handle feedback regarding technical solutions and complaints
• Provide lessons learned initiatives for developing issues in own responsibility area

 Professional Skills and knowledge areas

• Mechanical and/or Process engineering knowledge of Engine Power Plants
• Project Management skills
• Procurement skills
• Cost awareness & effectiveness
• Negotiation skills
• Presentation skills
• Problem solving and decision making
• Previous job experience from similar field of work
• Spanish language is seen as a benefit.
• Future fuels, CHP, Fire safety knowledge seen as a benefit

The solutions we develop together with our customers have an impact on how world trade, global energy supply and climate change evolve. Together with our customers, we make a true difference.

Last application date: 31/01/2025 

At Wärtsilä we value, respect and embrace all our differences, and are committed to diversity, inclusion and equal employment opportunities; everyone can be their true self and succeed based on their job-relevant merits and abilities. 

This is Wärtsilä 

Wärtsilä is a global leader in innovative technologies and lifecycle solutions for the marine and energy markets. Our team of 17,800 professionals, in more than 280 locations in 79 countries, shape the decarbonisation transformation of our industries across the globe. Read more on www.wartsila.com.