# Project Engineer
## About the Role
Siemens Energy is seeking a Project Engineer to serve as a critical link between customers, field teams, manufacturing partners, factories, and subcontractors following equipment failures. The role focuses on developing recovery strategies, coordinating outage and recovery activities, managing schedules, and ensuring replacement components are manufactured and delivered efficiently.
Successful candidates will bring experience in outage management, project engineering, or field service within power generation or similar industries, along with strong knowledge of steam turbines, gas turbines, and generators. The role also involves travel to project sites to support and mentor site project managers and coordinate execution with customers and internal stakeholders.
## Key Responsibilities
* Interface directly with customers and regional teams following unit failures to assess needs and define recovery strategies.
* Develop detailed processes, schedules, and execution plans to return units to service efficiently.
* Travel to project sites to mentor and support site project managers during outage and recovery activities.
* Monitor project progress and provide clear, timely updates to customers and internal stakeholders.
* Collaborate with factories and subcontractors to manufacture, repair, and deliver critical components.
* Coordinate logistics, heavy haul, and material movement to support on-time project execution.
* Develop detailed project schedules and cost estimates.
* Support recovery planning and execution following equipment failures.
## Required Qualifications
* Bachelor of Science in Engineering **or** 5+ years of experience in field outage management or power generation services.
* 5+ years of experience in outage management, project engineering, or field service within power generation or similar industries.
* Strong knowledge of steam turbines, gas turbines, and generators.
* Understanding of power plant construction, repair shop practices, and heavy haul/logistics coordination.
* Ability to develop detailed schedules and cost estimates.
* Legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer-sponsored work authorization.
## Preferred Qualifications
* No additional preferred qualifications are specified in the original job description.
## Skills & Competencies
* Project engineering and project execution
* Outage management and recovery planning
* Power generation industry knowledge
* Field service and site support
* Customer and stakeholder communication
* Project scheduling
* Cost estimation
* Problem-solving and recovery strategy development
* Coordination with factories, subcontractors, and suppliers
* Logistics and heavy haul coordination
* Equipment failure assessment
* Knowledge of steam turbines, gas turbines, and generators
## Education & Experience
**Education**
* Bachelor of Science in Engineering, or equivalent qualifying experience of 5+ years in field outage management or power generation services.
**Experience**
* 5+ years of experience in outage management, project engineering, or field service within power generation or similar industries.
## Work Arrangement & Schedule
* **Location:** Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
* **Work Arrangement:** Onsite
* **Employment Type:** Not specified in the original job description
* **Schedule:** Not specified in the original job description
* **Travel:** Travel to project sites is required to support and mentor site project managers during outage and recovery activities.
## Compensation & Benefits
**Compensation:** USD — salary amount not specified in the original job description.
**Rewards include:**
* Career growth and development opportunities
* Supportive work culture
* Company-paid health and wellness benefits
* Paid Time Off and paid holidays
* 401(k) savings plan with company match
* Family building benefits
* Parental leave
## Compliance / Additional Information
Applicants must be legally authorized for employment in the United States without the need for current or future employer-sponsored work authorization. Siemens Energy employees with current visa sponsorship may be eligible for internal transfers.
**About Siemens Energy – Gas Services**
Siemens Energy’s Gas Services division provides low-emission power generation through service and decarbonization. The division brings together gas turbines, steam turbines, and generators while delivering modernization and digitalization solutions designed to help reduce emissions and extend asset life.