Senior Project Engineer - Project Manager EPC - Nikola Corporation

Overview:

You’re passionate about a zero-emissions future and want to build something special. You want to own your space but work with talented, like-minded people on important projects. The pace doesn’t scare you - it excites you. Quality and integrity matter to you.

 

We feel exactly the same way.

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Nikola is looking for an experienced Senior Project Engineer responsible for preparing, scheduling, coordinating, and monitoring the assigned engineering projects for hydrogen infrastructure development. This position will be responsible for interfacing with the Nikola Energy Team, respective Contractors/Suppliers/Manufacturers, Public, City, and Government Officials and Agencies. This position reports to the Infrastructure Team Project Director.

 

In this key role, you will participate in basic project management activities required for successful execution of the project. This will include among other responsibilities managing schedules, work plans, forecasting, meetings, and action items to ensure project accuracy, quality, and safety. The Project Engineer is responsible for the engineering and technical disciplines of ongoing projects and will establish inspection criteria for the proper implementation of all the elements of a project.

To be a successful Project Engineer, you should have the ability to work with multiple discipline projects and demonstrate excellent project management, communication, and supervision skills. You should also have excellent organizational, time management, leadership, and decision-making skills.

Responsibilities:

• Preparing, scheduling, coordinating, and monitoring of assigned engineering projects
• Formulating project parameters and assigning responsibilities to the most capable employees and monitoring the project team
• Interacting with partners and customers, interpreting their needs and requirements, and representing them in the field
• Performing quality control tasks on budgets, schedules, plans, and personnel performance and reporting on the project's status
• Cooperating and communicating with the project manager and other project participants and collaborating with senior engineers to create more efficient project methods and to maintain the project's profitability
• Reviewing the engineering tasks and initiating the necessary corrective actions
• Developing specifications for the project's needed equipment
• Creating frameworks to measure the project's metrics and data collection
• Establishing field test methods and methods for monitoring the quality of those tests
• Ensuring the project's compliance with the applicable codes, practices, policies, performance standards, and specification

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related field
• 15 or more years of project experience
• Excellent computer literacy and knowledge of design and visualization software
• The ability to work with multi-discipline projects
• Excellent project management and supervision skills
• Excellent organizational, time management, leadership, and decision-making skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Knowledge of applicable codes, policies, standards, and best practices
• Experience in design/builds of commercial retail fueling stations is a plus
• Experience in construction or commissioning is a plus
• Experience in hydrogen supply, fueling stations, or storage is a plus

 

ABOUT NIKOLA

Nikola Corporation is globally transforming the transportation industry. As a designer and manufacturer of zero-emission battery-electric and hydrogen-electric vehicles, electric vehicle drivetrains, vehicle components, energy storage systems, and hydrogen station infrastructure, Nikola is driven to revolutionize the economic and environmental impact of commerce as we know it today. Nikola Corporation is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. For more information, visit www.nikolamotor.com

 

Candidates must have current U.S. work authorization or be TN eligible from Mexico or Canada. This position is not eligible for CPT or OPT.

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