Posted 6 days ago
Project Engineer
@ Kelly
Niagara Falls, Ontario
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Overview
Kelly is hiring a Project Engineer on a 12-month contract with possible extension in Niagara Falls, ON. The role leads project scope, cost-benefit analysis, design, implementation and support, manages projects to deadlines and budgets, and supervises field construction with safety responsibility. Preferred experience includes chemical or manufacturing facilities handling hazardous materials and DCS integration.
Responsibilities:
- Lead project scope, design, implementation and support
- Prepare cost estimates, schedules, execution plans and risk registers
- Manage projects to budget and deadlines with stakeholders
- Supervise field construction and contractors safely
- Hand over completed projects with final documentation
Requirements summary:
- Experience with chemical or manufacturing projects handling hazardous materials
- Familiarity with WHMIS
- Experience with batch and continuous process environments
- Experience with DCS-integrated manufacturing systems
- Experience with commissioning and Process Safety Management
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Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-11-04
- First seen by our source
- 2026-11-10
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-10
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Job details
| Seniority | Mid level |
| Department | Engineering |
| Travel | air: none · ground: minimal |
| Work setting | Plant or factory, Construction site, Office |
| Position | Sitting and standing |
| Physical demands | physical moderate · computer moderate |
| Languages | English |
| Licences & certifications | WHMIS |
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Kelly
| Field | Value |
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| Open jobs on Jobsy | 8 |
Job description
12 months contract with possible extension
Location: Niagara Falls, ON
Responsibilities:
- Lead and coordinate scope definition, cost-benefit analysis, design, testing, implementation, and support.
- Evaluate alternative solutions to identified problems and prepare associated assessment-grade cost estimates.
- Complete or oversee detailed process and other engineering design work.
- Prepare project-planning packages to support funding requests, including:
- Definition-phase cost estimates
- Resource-loaded project schedules
- Project execution plans
- Project risk registers
- Appropriate safety and hazard reviews
- Project Execution and Management
- Manage projects within established deadlines and budgets, partnering with key stakeholders to execute project plans.
- Ensure workstreams and functions understand Business Readiness stage-gate deliverables.
- Coordinate change management and employee engagement, including business-process redesign and training.
- Keep management informed of project status through ongoing communication and presentations.
- Support company and corporate projects or initiatives by providing business-process knowledge, facilitation, leadership, and system-development experience.
- Advocate for projects through funding approval and manage procurement and contracting.
- Lead project execution, including field supervision of construction activities, while ensuring safe work practices for contractors and field personnel.
- Ensure completed projects are properly handed over to the operating unit, and final documentation is completed.
- Own assigned projects and deliver the agreed scope on time and within budget, with no safety or environmental incidents.
- Propose manufacturing processes or utility systems upgrades and operational improvements as part of annual capital budgeting.
- Preferred Candidate Experience
- Completed projects in chemical processing or manufacturing facilities handling hazardous materials, including corrosives, flammables, and pyrophorics—for example, oil and gas, petrochemical, or chemical facilities.
- Familiarity with the Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS).
- Experience in both batch and continuous chemical-process environments.
- Experience implementing projects where manufacturing systems interface with a Distributed Control System (DCS).
- Direct supervision of contractors across disciplines during project work in an operating chemical manufacturing facility.
- Experience starting up and commissioning new systems or units after project completion.
- Experience in process design or supervision, and implementing Process Safety Management requirements or recommendations arising from Process Hazard Analyses.
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