Project Engineer - PL#25394

Peter Lucas Project Management invests in people and community to provide gold standard project delivery. We are currently looking for a Project Engineer to join our team.

Peter Lucas offers a variety of work, professional development, and learning opportunities that come from working on diverse projects in the mining, energy, and heavy industrial sectors. Our dynamic environment, filled with high-achieving professionals, enables our staff to take on incredible opportunities, gain mentorship from a diverse group of colleagues, and succeed in their careers.

The Project Engineer will support the successful delivery of sustaining and capital projects within a complex industrial environment. This role focuses on technical integration, multidisciplinary engineering coordination, and ensuring engineering activities and deliverables are aligned throughout the project lifecycle.

Working closely with engineering teams, project managers, operations, maintenance, construction, commissioning personnel, and external consultants, the Project Engineer will provide technical leadership, coordinate engineering interfaces, identify and resolve technical challenges, and support project readiness from planning and design through construction, commissioning, and closeout.

Key Responsibilities

Project Leadership & Technical Integration

• Lead technical integration and coordination across multidisciplinary engineering teams to support capital and sustaining projects.
• Coordinate engineering activities throughout project planning, design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and closeout.
• Develop and maintain engineering scope, technical assumptions, constraints, interfaces, and key engineering decisions.
• Coordinate internal engineering resources, external consultants, vendors, and contractors to ensure engineering activities align with project objectives.
• Facilitate collaboration between engineering, project management, operations, maintenance, construction, procurement, and commissioning teams.
• Provide technical leadership and support engineering decision-making in complex project environments.
• Identify technical risks, engineering gaps, and project readiness concerns, working collaboratively with stakeholders to resolve issues.

Engineering & Design Coordination

• Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering and design activities from initial planning through detailed engineering and execution.
• Review engineering deliverables, drawings, specifications, calculations, and technical documentation for completeness and alignment with project requirements.
• Support engineering readiness assessments, design reviews, constructability reviews, commissionability reviews, and project stage-gate reviews.
• Coordinate engineering consultants and technical interfaces to maintain consistency and continuity of the overall engineering solution.
• Support the development and maintenance of engineering schedules, execution plans, estimates, and resource requirements.
• Coordinate technical inputs for procurement packages, tender preparation, bid evaluations, vendor reviews, and post-award engineering activities.
• Ensure engineering documentation and deliverables meet applicable codes, standards, regulatory requirements, and client expectations.

Project Execution & Technical Support

• Monitor engineering progress and communicate technical risks, constraints, deliverable status, and readiness concerns to project stakeholders.
• Provide technical support during construction, field execution, commissioning, and start-up activities.
• Coordinate the resolution of requests for information (RFIs), design changes, field conditions, and technical issues encountered during project execution.
• Support engineering change management, technical documentation, project turnover, and operational readiness activities.
• Work collaboratively with project managers, construction teams, operations, and external stakeholders to maintain alignment between engineering deliverables and execution requirements.
• Support technical reviews and project decisions to ensure engineering activities are appropriately completed before procurement, construction, and commissioning.
• Promote effective communication, practical problem-solving, and continuous improvement throughout the project lifecycle.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering from an accredited institution.
• Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) designation with APEGS registration or eligibility for registration required.
• Intermediate level: Approximately 4–9 years of relevant engineering experience.
• Senior level: 10+ years of relevant engineering and project delivery experience.
• Experience supporting capital or sustaining projects within mining, industrial processing, energy, infrastructure, or other heavy industrial environments.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating multidisciplinary engineering activities and technical interfaces.
• Experience working with engineering consultants, contractors, vendors, and cross-functional project teams.
• Strong understanding of engineering reviews, technical oversight, procurement, construction, and commissioning processes.
• Ability to identify and resolve technical challenges while maintaining alignment with project requirements and objectives.
• Strong organizational, communication, facilitation, and technical problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively across multiple disciplines, departments, and locations.
• Willingness and ability to travel to operating sites as required.

Benefits

• Health and Dental.
• Pension Matching.

We appreciate all applicants' interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Wages are negotiable based on experience and qualifications.

Global reference checks may be conducted after the interview process.

Note: Peter Lucas Project Management is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

We acknowledge that the Peter Lucas head office is located on Treaty 6 Territory, the traditional lands of the Cree, Saulteaux, Dene, Dakota, Lakota, Nakota, and the homeland of the Métis.

We also acknowledge that our Kamloops office is located on Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc territory, situated within the unceded ancestral lands of the Secwépemc Nation. We honour and respect the people, the territory, and the land that houses the Kamloops community.

We recognize that our work, our lives, and our communities extend beyond these borders, taking place on the traditional and unceded territories of Indigenous Peoples across what is now known as Canada.

As we live, work, and play in these diverse lands, we honor the deep histories, cultures, and contributions of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples. In the spirit of Reconciliation and guided by our mission to elevate people and communities while driving innovation and sustainability, we are committed to building respectful relationships and shared success across this land we call home.