Project Engineer - Natural Gas Pipelines & Metering Stations
Overview
Join a growing engineering team supporting natural gas transmission pipeline, metering station, and compressor station projects across the midstream industry. This role combines hands-on engineering with project coordination, allowing you to serve as a key technical resource while partnering closely with Project Managers to deliver high-quality projects from concept through execution.This is an excellent opportunity for an engineer looking to expand project management responsibilities while remaining involved in technical design, client interaction, and multidisciplinary project delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary technical partner to Project Managers, helping drive project execution, schedules, deliverables, and overall project success.
- Coordinate engineering activities for natural gas pipeline, metering station, and related facility projects.
- Manage project documentation, deliverable tracking, meeting minutes, action items, risk registers, and status reporting.
- Perform engineering reviews, technical evaluations, calculations, and quality checks of designs and drawings.
- Support development of specifications, reports, engineering narratives, RFIs, and change requests.
- Monitor project schedules and budgets, identify risks, and assist in implementing corrective actions when needed.
- Facilitate internal and client meetings while maintaining strong communication across project teams.
- Collaborate with project management, engineering, design, drafting, survey, GIS, project controls, and field teams.
- Support proposal development, scope definition, and engineering estimates for future projects.
- Manage multiple concurrent projects ranging from large capital projects to smaller engineering assignments.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering (BSME).
- 3+ years of project or design engineering experience supporting natural gas transmission pipelines, metering stations, or compressor stations.
- Experience with pipeline design, gas piping systems, and midstream facilities.
- Understanding of project management principles, project controls, scheduling, and risk management.
- Ability to review engineering drawings, technical documents, and design packages for accuracy and quality.
- Strong communication and organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Experience working closely with clients, project teams, and multidisciplinary engineering groups.
Preferred Qualifications
- PMP and/or EIT certification.
- Consulting engineering experience within the oil & gas or midstream industry.
- Experience with compressor stations, meter stations, and pipeline facilities.
- Familiarity with CAD and engineering design tools such as SolidWorks, Inventor, Navisworks, and P&ID platforms.
- Exposure to EPCM project environments, construction management, GIS, survey, or operations and maintenance support.
Why Consider This Opportunity?
- Flexible remote or hybrid work arrangements.
- Monthly travel to the Lexington office for fully remote employees in Eastern and Central time zones.
- Stable workload backed by long-term, repeat-client relationships.
- Strong bonus potential tied to company performance.
- Clear career growth path into senior engineering and project management leadership roles.
- Work alongside a multidisciplinary team delivering full EPCM services from engineering and design through construction support.
- Collaborative culture that values flexibility, professional development, and work-life balance.
Work Environment
- This role offers a flexible, modern work environment with options for remote and hybrid arrangements. Candidates based in Eastern or Central time zones may work fully remote, with the expectation of flying into the Lexington, Kentucky office once a month. Local candidates typically follow a hybrid schedule of three days in the office and two days working from home. Occasional travel to project sites is required but minimal, generally limited to a few times per year.
- You will work within a medium-sized, multidisciplinary engineering office of approximately 60 professionals, including field staff, engineers, and project managers. The organization provides a full suite of in-house servicesfrom survey, drafting, design, project controls, engineering, and project managementsupporting a true one-stop EPCM environment and enabling close collaboration across disciplines.
- The culture emphasizes flexibility, supporting reasonable schedule accommodations and personal situations, and is focused on long-term career growth with strong internal advancement opportunities. The project portfolio is steady and repeat-client driven, offering job stability and a high-performing environment with a lucrative bonus structure tied to company performance.
- Work is technology-driven, leveraging modern engineering, CAD, and collaboration tools, and requires a reliable high-speed internet connection (download 80100 Mbps, upload 2030 Mbps, latency under 50 ms, wired Ethernet preferred or strong Wi-Fi 5 or 6) to support remote and hybrid work.
Job Type & LocationThis is a Contract to Hire position based out of Versailles, KY. Pay and BenefitsThe pay range for this position is $30.00 - $53.00/hr. Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits
available for this temporary role may include the following:
Medical, dental & vision Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital 401(k) Retirement Plan Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) Short and long-term disability Health Spending Account (HSA) Transportation benefits Employee Assistance Program Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave) Job Type & LocationThis is a Contract to Hire position based out of Versailles, KY. Application DeadlineThis position is anticipated to close on Nov 17, 2026. Workplace TypeThis is a hybrid position in Versailles,KY.About Actalent
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