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Project Engineer

Location

Remote - Minneapolis, Minnesota

Salary Range

$130,000 - $160,000

Overview

Stelic is seeking a Project Engineer to own schedule, cost, change, and risk controls on a biopharmaceutical manufacturing project. The project spans engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, qualification and validation (CQV), automation, technical transfer, regulatory, and operational ramp-up activities.

The Project Engineer maintains the integrated project schedule in Microsoft Project, manages the cost baseline and change control process, runs the project risk management process, and produces the monthly performance reporting package for the project Steering Committee. The role reports to the client Project Manager and has no direct reports.

The role is remote-first position with approximately monthly to quarterly travel to our client site in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Key Responsibilities

Develop the integrated project schedule (IPS) in Microsoft Project aligned to the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), with activity durations, logic relationships, constraints, and resource and cost loading across all workstreams.

Establish and maintain the approved baseline schedule, administer baseline change control, and document all revisions.

Collect weekly progress across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, automation, CQV, technical transfer, and operational readiness, using deliverable and milestone based progress measurement agreed with the client, general contractor, automation supplier, and CQV providers.

Perform critical path and total float analysis, produce 3-week and 6-week look-ahead schedules, and run what-if and recovery scenarios to support decisions and mitigate delays.

Integrate contractor and vendor schedules into the master schedule, verify their logic and progress, and maintain the schedule basis document.

Develop and manage the project cost baseline and control budget aligned with the approved capital appropriation, structured by WBS and Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS) Levels 1 through 3, including main equipment.

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