Career Opportunities

Position: Project Engineer

Reports to: Project Manager
Direct Reports: None
Exempt Status: Salaried Exempt
Date Last Updated: August 2025

Overview: The Project Engineer assists the Project Managers and/or Superintendents to ensure work meets quality standards, owner expectations, and profitability. Assesses and responds to customer needs and cultivates customer relationships.

Major Responsibilities

• General Contract and Subcontract administration
• Procurement and expediting of material and equipment.
• Follows up for receipt, review, distribution, and filing of information and documents required for project construction. Includes plan revisions, Requests for Information, Submittals, photos, videos, etc. as required.
• Maintains logs, reflecting the status of shop drawings, requests for clarification, change requests, and proposal requests.
• Reviews plans from the standpoint of constructability. Communicates inconsistencies to the architect via Requests for Information.
• Reviews plans for potential labor saving and other cost-saving methods. Communicates these with the project team and ownership.
• Participates in project schedule updates as needed.
• Attends and takes notes for project team meetings, including weekly Owner/Architect meetings and subcontractor coordination meetings. Distributes meeting minutes to participants.
• Supervision/coordination of subcontractors’ field installations
• Project cost review, reporting, updating, and accounting.
• Review of subcontractor applications for payment.
• Review/negotiate change proposal pricing from subcontractors and prepare change proposal pricing for self-performed work.
• Change order documentation and associated cost reporting and maintenance.
• Research and suggest options on construction means, methods and equipment.
• Maintenance of As-Built plans.
• Quality control and project closeout.
• Monitor/document jobsite safety and accident prevention. Implement all applicable safety programs on project.

Knowledge and Skill Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, construction management, or related field, or the equivalent education and experience.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills. Requires the ability to interface with customers, vendors, and subcontractors.
• Ability to solve problems and multi-task.
• Has the ability and desire to quickly learn new job-related information.
• Knows how to manage events to achieve goals, is a self-starter, works well without close supervision, and has a record of achieving goals.
• Experienced in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Project, Bluebeam, Takeoff and Document Control Software.
• Display an exemplary work ethic and provide model behavior and guidance to other staff through motivation, instruction, and increased knowledge.
• Maintain a professional image in dress and grooming.
• May be required to perform occasional heavy work exerting up to 100 lbs. of force occasionally, and/or up to 50 lbs. of force frequently, and/or up to 20 lbs. of force constantly to move objects.