Project Engineer at Mission Critical Group

Job Description

The Project Engineer provides technical support and coordination across the engineering portfolio to help meet customer, project, and production requirements. This role serves as a central coordination point among engineering, project management, sales, procurement, quality, production, customers, vendors, and external engineering partners. The Project Engineer organizes technical information, supports planning and prioritization, tracks schedules and deliverables, reviews drawings, models, bills of materials, calculations, and related documentation, and helps resolve technical issues throughout the project lifecycle. The role applies independent technical judgment within assigned responsibilities, maintains accurate project records, and supports the efficient progression of work from concept and design through fabrication, assembly, and closeout.

Accountabilities

• Provide technical coordination and support across the engineering portfolio, including new product, customer project, production support, continuous improvement, and sustaining engineering activities.
• Support the planning, assignment, prioritization, scheduling, and delivery of engineering work performed by internal teams, external engineering firms, vendors, and contract resources.
• Develop and communicate clear scopes of work, technical requirements, priorities, milestones, and expected deliverables for assigned engineering activities.
• Serve as a technical coordination point among engineering, project management, sales, procurement, quality, production, customers, vendors, and external engineering partners.
• Gather, organize, and distribute drawings, specifications, standards, customer requirements, design inputs, and other technical information needed to complete assigned work.
• Track project status, engineering deliverables, open questions, decisions, changes, approvals, and due dates; identify risks or delays and escalate concerns to the appropriate leader.
• Review drawings, 3D models, bills of materials, calculations, specifications, and other engineering deliverables for completeness, accuracy, consistency, manufacturability, and alignment with company, customer, and applicable engineering requirements.
• Identify technical gaps, discrepancies, and nonconformities; coordinate corrections, approvals, and follow-up actions with the responsible stakeholders.
• Coordinate responses to technical questions, design changes, redlines, requests for information, shop-floor feedback, and field issues to support timely resolution and accurate revisions.
• Maintain organized project records, revision histories, transmittals, approvals, action logs, and other technical documentation throughout the engineering lifecycle.
• Support engineering workload visibility, resource coordination, and communication of capacity, quality, responsiveness, and recurring issues to management.
• Support continuous improvement by standardizing engineering handoffs, submittal requirements, templates, design-review practices, and coordination processes.
• Work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to ensure engineering outputs support safety, quality, cost, schedule, compliance, and manufacturability expectations.
• Facilitate the import, integration, organization, and exchange of 3D CAD models and related technical data within the internal engineering environment.
• Perform other job-related responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma, equivalent, or any combination of education and experience that demonstrates the ability to perform the job duties
• Two or more years of relevant engineering, design, drafting, manufacturing support, project coordination, or technical review experience preferred.
• Familiarity with CAD systems, including SolidWorks, preferred.
• Working knowledge of engineering design principles, technical documentation, drawing and model review practices, tolerances, bills of materials, change control, and manufacturing methods.
• Ability to read, interpret, organize, and evaluate engineering drawings, 3D models, specifications, bills of materials, calculations, and P&IDs for accuracy, completeness, and compliance.
• Ability to apply independent technical judgment, identify design gaps or nonconformities, coordinate input from multiple disciplines, and recommend practical solutions.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Excellent time management skills, ability to self-motivate.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to coordinate effectively across departments and with customers, vendors, and engineering partners.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite, required.
• Understanding the forming of sheet metal work and capabilities preferred.
• Ability to pass a background check and drug screen.

Additional Information

A Note to our Recruitment Partners: We really appreciate the interest, but MCG currently manages hiring through our internal team. We love getting to know our candidates directly! Because of this, we don’t accept unsolicited resumes from agencies at this time. If we ever need an extra hand, we’ll be sure to reach out to the community. Thanks for understanding!

MCG is an equal opportunity employer prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, creed, religion, sex, marital status, physical or mental disability, and any other protected classes stated by applicable federal and state laws. MCG is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with disabilities and to act in accordance with regulations and guidance issued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).