Mechanical Project Engineer

Location:

Pinch A Penny Suncoast Chemicals Plant; 15400 62nd St North. Clearwater, FL. 33760

You want Benefits? You’ve got it! Our generous benefits package includes:

Medical, Dental, Vision, and Prescription Drug coverage with Flexible Spending Accounts and Wellness Programs
401 (k) with generous company match

Eligible for Paid Time Off and 8 paid holidays (

NOTE:

PTO increases with tenure!)100% employer paid Life Insurance and Long-Term Disability Insurance Paid Parental Leave Fully Funded Tuition Education Programs Employee Stock Purchase Plan Excellent career advancement and training opportunities to support your career growth

Employee Discounts and much more!

What to Expect?

The Mechanical Project Engineer is responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing small to medium-sized capital, maintenance, reliability, and continuous improvement projects within the manufacturing facility. This role works closely with Operations, EHS, Facilities and contractors to ensure projects are completed safely, on schedule, within budget, and in compliance with company standards. The Mechanical Project Engineer identifies opportunities to improve equipment reliability, capacity, safety, and operational efficiency while supporting day-to-day plant operations.

This hands-on role supports production-critical systems and related infrastructure that directly impact safe and efficient operations, including airflow, temperature-sensitive process conditions, wet air scrubbers, VFDs, suction/vacuum systems, and related mechanical, electrical, and control interfaces. This position requires a driven, data-minded leader who challenges the status quo, listens to the team, uses facts to guide decisions, and is motivated to grow into broader operational responsibility.

On a daily basis our Mechanical Project Engineer:

Leads and manages minor capital projects from concept through commissioning.

Develops project scopes, schedules, budgets, and resource plans.

Coordinates contractors, vendors, and internal stakeholders.

Works cross-functionally with production, maintenance, safety, quality, and purchasing teams to identify equipment or process issues, determine root cause, and implement sustainable corrective actions.

Sizes, specifies, justifies, sources, purchases, installs, and commissions equipment upgrades for production departments, ensuring safety, feasibility, ROI, operational readiness, and long-term maintainability.

Tracks project costs and ensuring expenditures remain within approved budgets.

Provides regular project status updates to site leadership.

Creates and reviews technical specifications, drawings, and work packages.

Supports installation, startup, and commissioning activities.

Understands, troubleshoots, and optimizes process and production-support systems including wet air scrubbers, VFDs, suction/vacuum systems, airflow controls, temperature-sensitive process conditions, and related mechanical/electrical interfaces.

Ensures compliance with applicable codes, standards, and company engineering practices.

Identifies opportunities to improve equipment reliability and reduce downtime.

Supports root cause failure investigations and corrective actions.

Participates in preventive and predictive maintenance initiatives.

Drives continuous improvement projects focused on safety, productivity, quality, and cost reduction.

Sustains the production tracking system (Vorne) across applicable departments, production lines, and equipment to monitor efficiency, OEE, downtime, standards, and daily performance.

Supports Management of Change (MOC) processes as applicable.

Participates in risk assessments, job hazard analyses, and project safety reviews.

Maintains project documentation, drawings, specifications, and engineering records.

Takes initiative in reviewing production data with department leaders and supervisors; convert findings into action plans that improve throughput, reduce downtime, improve labor utilization, reduce cost, and strengthen operating performance.

Reviews and improves process flow, equipment layout, material movement, staffing methods, changeovers, and operating practices to reduce waste and increase efficiency.

Finalizes, implements, audits, and sustains the 5S program, including visual standards, ownership expectations, corrective actions, and management routines.

Develops and maintains SOPs, work instructions, standard work, training materials, technical documentation, and operating standards that support safe and repeatable processes.

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