Project Engineer

ABOUT US

Seaboard Overseas and Trading Group (SOTG), a division of the Fortune 500 Seaboard Corporation, is a globally integrated leader in agricultural commodity trading, processing, and logistics. With milling facilities in 14 locations across 10 countries and 10 trading offices in 9 countries, we produce approximately two million metric tons of grain-based products annually.


Our vertically integrated approach-spanning procurement, transportation, and processing-ensures quality, consistency, and supply chain efficiency. We manage bulk freight and chartered vessels, overseeing logistics for both in-house and third-party customers. Every year, we source, transport, and market around 14 million metric tons of diverse commodities, supporting food security and economic growth in the regions we serve.


At SOTG, we are driven by innovation, collaboration, and sustainability. Our business model fosters an entrepreneurial mindset, empowering our teams to take ownership, find creative solutions, and drive impact.


GENERAL PURPOSE

The Project Engineer provides engineering, project management, technical compliance, and analytical support for capital projects and manufacturing operations across the company's global network of facilities. This corporate-based position supports projects from concept and feasibility through engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, startup, and closeout. The role also supports technical risk and property insurance compliance and capital portfolio management through data analytics, digital tools, and artificial intelligence platforms.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Capital Project Engineering & Execution

• Support projects through concept development, feasibility, scope definition, engineering and design, procurement, construction, commissioning, startup, and closeout.
• Develop and support project charters, scopes, design criteria, technical requirements, equipment specifications, cost estimates, schedules, procurement packages, and construction scopes of work.
• Manage assigned engineering workstreams and independently execute smaller capital projects when appropriate.
• Coordinate corporate functions, manufacturing locations, engineering consultants, equipment suppliers, contractors, and other stakeholders; monitor compliance with approved scope, cost, schedule, quality, safety, and technical requirements.

Engineering Design & Technical Support

• Review engineering drawings and layouts, including equipment, site, process, utility, piping, material-handling, mechanical, and installation layouts.
• Perform field measurements, equipment assessments, and site surveys; review vendor drawings, equipment submittals, technical proposals, fabrication drawings, and supporting engineering documentation.
• Assist with technical evaluation and selection of equipment, suppliers, and engineering solutions and coordinate multidisciplinary interfaces across mechanical, civil/structural, electrical, process, controls/automation, utilities, and infrastructure.

Project Planning & Controls

• Develop and maintain project schedules using Microsoft Project, including milestones, dependencies, critical paths, engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and startup activities.
• Track project progress, capital expenditure forecasts, costs and commitments, cash flow, schedule forecasts, risks, decisions, changes, and other project-control records.
• Support project dashboards, portfolio reports, management presentations, and executive-level status updates.

Technical Risk & Insurance Compliance

• Serve as a corporate technical resource supporting property risk, engineering risk, and insurance compliance activities across manufacturing locations.
• Coordinate technical aspects of property and operational risk assessments with sites, internal stakeholders, insurance representatives, brokers, inspectors, and third-party engineering consultants.
• Review insurance/property-risk engineering recommendations; work with overseas locations to define corrective actions, responsibilities, schedules, capital needs, and closure evidence.
• Maintain centralized tracking of open recommendations, including aging, priority, status, and closure; provide management visibility to significant technical risks and compliance status.
• Assist sites with technically appropriate responses, clarifications, modifications, or alternative solutions and identify recommendations requiring future capital investment.

Procurement Sourcing & Contractor Coordination

• Develop technical specifications and scopes of work for equipment, engineering services, and construction packages.
• Partner with Strategic Sourcing Department and participate in supplier and contractor prequalification and bid processes. Perform technical evaluations or quotations and proposals.
• Review vendor documentation, monitor engineering and manufacturing deliverables for critical equipment, and assist with technical-document expediting and supplier issue resolution.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Industrial, Agricultural, Civil, Electrical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline from an accredited university.
• 5-7 years of progressive engineering and/or project experience in an industrial manufacturing, processing, or similar operating environment.
• Demonstrated experience supporting capital projects within active manufacturing facilities and coordinating operations personnel, engineering consultants, contractors, and equipment suppliers.
• Experience with engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and startup phases of capital projects and with analyzing technical/project data and communicating findings to management.

Preferred Experience

• Experience in agri-business, flour milling, feed milling, grain handling and storage, food processing, agricultural processing, bulk material handling, or related process and industrial manufacturing environments.
• Experience with international or multi-site manufacturing organizations.
• Proficiency with AutoCAD 2D and 3D.

OTHER QUALIFICATIONS

Technical & Digital Skills

• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Project, including scheduling, sequencing, dependencies, milestones, critical-path monitoring, updating, and progress tracking.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel for analysis, project controls, reporting, and data management; proficiency in PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, and Teams.

Travel Requirements

• Willingness and ability to travel internationally approximately 10-20%, including visits to manufacturing facilities, project sites, suppliers, and other locations as required.

WORKING ENVIRONMENT

Work may be performed in a manufacturing or professional office environment and involves frequent contact with others as part of Seaboard's collaborative culture. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to hear and communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, and with sufficient mobility to perform assigned tasks. Regular use of standard office equipment, such as computers and phones, is required. This role may have physical demands including, but not limited to, lifting, bending, pushing, pulling and/or extended sitting and standing. The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds. The position requires specific vision abilities, including close vision and the ability to adjust focus. The physical demands described above are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.