Facility Project Engineer

Location: Iowa

Montpelier, 1770 Bill Sharp Blvd, Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America •

Job Description

Posted Monday, February 16, 2026 at 7:00 AM

SSAB is one of the largest North American producers of steel plate and coil, serving many industrial markets including energy, construction, agriculture and transportation.

SSAB operates five state of the art facilities strategically located in key regions across the U.S. SSAB has nearly 1,200 highly skilled employees in the U.S. Jobs at SSAB range from machine operators and sales people to advanced engineers and corporate professionals in HR, finance and more. SSAB offers challenging careers and comprehensive benefit program designed to keep employees and their families healthy and secure.

POSITION

PURPOSE

Develop and manage a range of engineering projects from major to minor, for all operating, maintenance, and support departments. Maintain, improve, and upgrade buildings and equipment to maximize production capabilities, and to correct equipment and manufacturing problems.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS Perform Equipment & Facility Design Projects

• Become familiar with equipment, components, and systems throughout the Montpelier Facility.
• Utilizing Computer Aided Design 2D and 3D software model and design new equipment, within the confines of existing equipment and systems.
• Make drawings of these designs.

Manage Capital Projects.

Manage numerous, diverse Capital Projects. Coordinate the various project disciplines and activities to make significant progress toward completing these in a timely manner, on budget.

Develop complete project scope, including:

• Overall layout and planning.
• Equipment design and development.
• Sufficient engineering to develop project scope and costs.
• Any required technical specifications, bid documents, and commercial contract processes.
• Capital appropriation requests including developing and articulating project justifications.

Write all purchase requests to issue purchase orders.

• Work with Purchasing and Legal Department during the procurement process as required, for the proper development of purchasing and contract documents.

Manage and supervise all technical personnel, outside contractors, vendors, and suppliers, installation labor, for project execution.

• Develop realistic implementation schedules. Keep project work on track to execute the full scope of work and equipment startup.
• Hold regular project and scheduling meetings with involved parties.
• Track project costs.

Implement Capital Projects:

• Direct and authorize project activities from conception, through design, fabrication, construction management, and project close-out.
• Develop complete installation and modification scope.
• Design equipment changes and Supervise internal and external design and engineering personnel to develop complete project drawings and documentation.
• Direct the activities for design engineers, designers and draftsmen, contractors, suppliers, and vendors to bring everything together to execute the project.
• Develop complete implementation and installation plan, including schedule, installation downtime requirements, labor, equipment requirements, etc. to install the complete project scope.
• Develop and implement startup plan. Inform all concerned parties as to changes involved and new procedures needed.
• Control spending and labor hours to within 10% of approved budgets (or $10,000 maximum). Keep track of budget and spending, and approve all invoices.
• Project review, financial check, and closeout:
  Ensure that the project was completed, that the budget was maintained, and work order is closed. Add all drawings and manuals to engineering document management system.

Develop and Manage solutions to Manufacturing Operating Problems and Improvements to the Processes.

• Lead teams to perform problem solving analysis to solve operating and equipment problems.
• Review equipment design and use to improve equipment, allowing it to perform better, and reduce operating and maintenance costs.
• Develop changes to equipment that allow increased production, reduced delays, improved quality, and/or enhanced operations throughout the facility.

Provide technical advice and engineering support to Upper Management, Mill Superintendents, Mill Engineers and other plant personnel.

• Manage the resources of outside engineering and consultants to perform large-scale engineering analysis and studies that otherwise could not be performed by SSAB Internal resources.
• Perform feasibility studies and analysis, conceptual planning, and designs that aid management in making decisions. Make necessary engineering calculations for strength and durability of equipment and systems.
• Perform Value Engineering to allow Value Purchasing of major equipment, buildings, machines, components, and spares.
• Utilizing experience in all aspects of operations, environmental requirements, safety, and engineering provide insights and analysis on a wide-range of issues facing SSAB.

Liaison and interface for outside resources.

• Utilizing experience and job knowledge make use of…