The Project Engineer also supports disciplined use of global project-management procedures, change controls, risk-management methods, document-control practices, and reporting tools to improve customer experience and project performance.
Key Responsibilities
Project Execution and Coordination
Provide technical support for flow-control order execution from product selection through order closeout. Coordinate cross-functional activities required for the efficient and timely delivery of engineered-to-order flow-control equipment. Serve as a technical and execution focal point among customers, project managers, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, finance, service teams, and external suppliers. Provide technical and operational support to factory project managers throughout the project lifecycle. Escalate complex issues and coordinate appropriate subject-matter experts and stakeholders when additional technical expertise or authority is required. Review technical requirements, customer specifications, project scope, and technical documentation to ensure requirements are understood, communicated, and incorporated into execution plans. Support cost reduction, lead-time improvement, and execution-efficiency initiatives while maintaining compliance with customer, contractual, quality, and safety requirements.
Project Controls and Financial Performance
Monitor project schedules, milestones, deliverables, financial performance, and closeout requirements to maintain alignment of activities to goals. Support the tracking and forecasting of revenue, gross margin, percent completion, cash flow, invoicing, collections, aging receivables, and delivery performance. Support the timely submission of project-status reports covering overall project health, financial performance, customer experience, key risks, milestones, and execution metrics. Identify performance gaps, analyze contributing factors, and work with the Project Manager and cross-functional team to develop and implement corrective-action and recovery plans.
Risk, Change, and Commercial Management
Identify technical, commercial, schedule, quality, supply-chain, and execution risks where execution plan offers a result potentially misaligned with order requirements. Protect Flowserve’s commercial interests by identifying contractual risks, documenting required actions, and escalating significant concerns to the Project Manager and appropriate project-management leadership. Ensure changes to scope, specifications, schedule, cost, or execution requirements are documented, evaluated, approved, and communicated through the applicable change-management process. Proactively communicate emerging concerns and escalate issues when additional resources, technical support, commercial direction, or management decisions are required.
Documentation and Governance
Coordinate the preparation, review, submission, and approval of project deliverables, including technical documents, inspection and test procedures, execution documents, and customer-specific documentation. Process technical, commercial, quality, and project-execution documentation to ensure accuracy, traceability, revision control, timely submission, and compliance with contractual and Flowserve requirements. Participate in project audits, gate reviews, and compliance checks to confirm adherence to project-management, quality, safety, and document-control processes.
Continuous Improvement
Maintain project lessons-learned records and support post-project reviews to identify improvements for future proposals and project execution. Promote standardized project-management processes, PMO policies, lean practices, and continuous-improvement methods across project activities. Identify and recommend practical improvements to project tools, work processes, reporting, documentation, and cross-functional coordination.
Customer and Site Engagement
Provide on-site support at manufacturing facilities, supplier locations, and customer sites as needed to accelerate issue resolution and strengthen project execution. Communicate project information, risks, decisions, changes, and required actions clearly and promptly to customers, suppliers, internal teams, and leadership. Work effectively across time zones and cultures to support global project execution, customer requirements, manufacturing sites, and cross-functional stakeholders.
Behavioral Competencies
Demonstrate ownership, accountability, sound judgment, and a strong commitment to safe, timely, high-quality, and cost-conscious execution.
Build credibility through technical competence, responsiveness, professional communication, and consistent follow-through.
Work collaboratively in a matrixed, cross-functional, and cross-cultural environment.
Analyze complex issues, evaluate alternatives, recommend practical solutions, and support timely execution action.
Exercise commercial and business judgment by balancing customer requirements, project cost, schedule, quality, risk, and contractual interests.
Adapt effectively to changing requirements, customer priorities, manufacturing constraints, and global execution challenges.
Organize and manage multiple projects or workstreams while maintaining accuracy, attention to detail, ownership, and responsiveness.
Promote measurable results, effective execution, disciplined resource use, standardized processes, and continuous improvement.
Education and Experience Required
Bachelor’s degree in engineering or another relevant technical discipline.
Four or more years of progressive experience in application engineering, engineered-to-order manufacturing, EPC project execution, or a related industrial project environment, with at least three years involving direct experience with valves, actuators, or related flow-control products.
Application-engineering experience involving detailed technical product selection, specifications, and customer requirements.
Demonstrated knowledge of capital-project execution, EPC work processes, engineered-to-order products, or comparable project programs.
Demonstrated ability to communicate project status, risks, and recommendations to leadership personnel.
Technical and Functional Skills Required
Knowledge of applicable industrial standards, including API, ISO, MSS, ASTM, and DIN.
Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, piping and instrumentation diagrams, data sheets, technical specifications, bills of material, inspection and test plans, and manufacturing documentation.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including advanced Excel capabilities for project tracking, analysis, reporting, and forecasting.
Working knowledge of Microsoft Project, document-control systems, risk-management tools, and project-reporting methods.
Strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, presentation, written-communication, and verbal-communication skills.
Ability to work independently while contributing effectively within cross-functional and cross-cultural teams.
Professional fluency in written and spoken English.
Chinese-language capability is strongly preferred.
Travel and Working Conditions
Willingness and ability to travel up to 30%, including occasional short-term international travel for factory visits, supplier engagement, customer-site support, and key stakeholder meetings.
The role requires regular interaction with geographically dispersed teams, customers, and suppliers. To support global project execution, the employee must be able to participate in periodic meetings outside normal business hours, including early-morning and evening teleconferences, as required by project schedules, customer needs, and time-zone coordination.
