Project Engineer

About the job:
Kent is looking for a Project Engineer to support the coordination and delivery of multidisciplinary engineering work for projects in Canada. Working with the Project Manager, Project Engineering Manager, and discipline leads, you will track deliverables, resolve interfaces, and help the team meet scope, schedule, cost, and quality requirements.

Skills and Responsibilities:
Responsibilities:
• Support engineering execution plans, scopes of work, deliverable registers, schedules, and project procedures.
• Coordinate inputs across engineering disciplines and follow up on deliverables, technical queries, and outstanding actions.
• Track engineering progress, hours, and schedule commitments; highlight variances and support corrective actions.
• Organize project and technical coordination meetings, maintain action registers, and follow through on agreed decisions.
• Support design reviews and interdisciplinary checks, ensuring comments and technical decisions are recorded and addressed.
• Coordinate vendor information and engineering inputs to procurement, including requisitions and document reviews as assigned.
• Assist with engineering change control by documenting changes and gathering scope, cost, and schedule impacts.
• Support construction and commissioning interfaces by coordinating responses to requests for information and technical issues.
• Prepare progress updates, maintain project records, and support document control, closeout, and lessons learned.
• Contribute engineering inputs to proposals, estimates, and execution planning as required

In addition to the responsibilities listed herein, the employee may be required to perform other ad-hoc tasks as needed or directed by the supervisor or management. These tasks will be within the reasonable scope of the employee's skills, capabilities, and role within the organization. The intent of this provision is to allow for flexibility and adaptability in meeting the dynamic needs of the organization, ensuring that operational requirements can be met efficiently. All such tasks will be assigned considering the employee's current workload and with respect to their professional development.

Your knowledge/skills, education, and experience:
Knowledge/ Qualification/ Training/ Certification:
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering in a relevant discipline.
• Approximately 8-10 years relevant experience in project engineering or multidisciplinary engineering coordination.
• Professional Engineer registration, or eligibility for registration, in Alberta is required.
• Experience in an EPC, EPCM, or engineering consulting environment is preferred.
• Understanding of engineering deliverables, discipline interfaces, procurement support, and the project delivery lifecycle.
• Ability to interpret technical information, maintain accurate records, track actions, and identify issues requiring escalation.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office; familiarity with scheduling, document management, and project reporting tools.

Communication:
• Excellent command of English, both oral and written.
• Able to prepare clear progress updates, coordinate technical inputs, and communicate effectively with clients, colleagues, and vendors.

Behavior/ Core Competencies:
• Ownership of assigned work and dependable follow-through.
• Strong organization, attention to detail, and practical problem solving.
• Collaborative working style, willingness to learn, and sound judgment when escalating issues.

HSSEQ:
The Employee shall observe the Health, Safety, Sustainability, Environment and Quality rules of the Company; it’s clients and the governing authorities of the host country.

Details about the role:
Location: Calgary, Alberta
Relocation required: N/A
Travel required: Minimal travel to project and client sites may be required
Contract type: Full-time
Experience level: 5+ years

About you:

Join us. Unleash your energy within.

If you have world-class ambitions to reach the stars while keeping your feet on the ground, we’re the team for you. We've created a new breed of company – future-focused with reimagined ambition across all disciplines within the energy sector.

We love people who know their own potential and are not afraid to use it. We know that together, we’re far more than the sum of our parts. So, we celebrate people who want to grow and develop as we work together on some of the largest projects on the energy world stage.

We are committed to our diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop. From day one, we offer a range of family-friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and employee networks to support staff from different backgrounds.

As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures, and abilities.

We’re a disability-friendly employer and can make adjustments to support you to perform at your best during the recruitment process.

Our purpose and beliefs:

As Kent, we’re tackling the greatest challenge of our time - to bring our world the energy it needs in the most responsible way ever imagined.

It’s the energy of every member of our team driven by our beliefs that is making this happen. Whatever our skill, our language, or our culture. These beliefs define and direct us every day to be the very best - for ourselves, our clients, our key stakeholders, the communities we operate in and the planet:

We PLAY BIG
We thrive on EMOTIONAL AGILITY
We are FANATICAL ABOUT PERFORMANCE
We are built on INFINITE THINKING

Read more about the Purpose, Beliefs and Guiding Principles that drive us:

Our vision for Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging:

We recognise that diversity & inclusion are catalysts for success. We’re heightening awareness on the benefits of people diversity, diversity of experiences and diversity of our perspectives. Creating a culture of inclusivity where all employees feel a sense of belonging.

Our combined energy is fueled by different nationalities, across 6 continents and 24 countries. Our commitment is to celebrate character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability.