• Job Description

  Req#: R-143433

  Job Title

  Corporate Mechanical Engineer

  Position Overview

  Shaw Industries is seeking a Mechanical Engineer to join our Enterprise Utilities Team. This team provides engineering support for the corporation’s manufacturing, distribution, sales, and administrative facilities. Although its primary base is in Dalton, GA, CE is deployed on projects across the enterprise.

  This position is primarily responsible and accountable for project development, design, and execution, with a secondary focus on technical support for manufacturing facilities. This position is responsible for collecting design criteria, preparing detailed schedules, preparing technical specifications, developing engineering designs, assembling project estimates, creating engineered drawings, and utilizing project management tools to ensure projects meet safety, quality, schedule, performance, and budget requirements.

  Shaw Industries Group, Inc. is a leader in flooring and other surface solutions designed for residential housing, commercial spaces and outdoor environments. Leveraging strengths in design, innovation and operational excellence, the company takes a people-centered, customer-focused, and growth-minded approach to meet diverse market needs. It creates differentiated customer experiences through its expansive portfolio of brands: Anderson Tuftex, COREtec , Shaw Floors, Patcraft , Philadelphia Commercial, Shaw Contract, Shaw Sports Turf, Shawgrass , Southwest Greens, Watershed Geo and more .

  Headquartered in Dalton, Georgia, Shaw is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. with more than $6 billion in annual sales and 18,000 associates worldwide.

  Responsibilities:

  Project Development and Administration

  • Develop and execute capital and expensed projects.
  • Solicit detailed stakeholder design criteria and translates same into actionable technical designs, plans, and scope elements to ensure achievement of project objectives.

  Project Management and Execution

  • Consistently apply technical standards, engineering best practices, project management processes, and project management tools, and champion the use of the same with facility-level engineering teams.
  • Manage onsite contractor activities, ensuring consistent enforcement of regulatory, corporate and plant policies such as safety, ethics, environmental, etc.
  • Provide an active onsite resource for project commissioning, startup, and optimization.

  Qualifications

  • 4-year engineering or engineering technology degree and 3+ years of industrial and/or engineering experience related to project management OR 5 years equivalent experience.
  • 2+ years as a Project Engineer.
  • Must have demonstrated proficiency in project management, including but not limited to development of designs and specifications, scheduling, estimating, installation, and project administration.
  • Possess strong knowledge of the design of mechanical systems in an industrial environment including power transmission, piping systems, valves, and general machinery.

  Competencies

  • Plan and Organize
  • Drive Results
  • Initiate Action
  • Build Trusting Relationships

  Work Shift

  8 Hr non-rotating shift, Hrs fall to in punch day, Observed Calendar, shift starts AM

  Shaw Industries is an equal opportunity employer as to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

• About the company

  Shaw Industries Group, Inc. is one of the world's largest carpet manufacturers, supplies resilient, hardwood, laminate, tile and stone, synthetic turf and other specialty products to residential and commercial markets It is headquartered in Dalton, Georgia, and is a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway.

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