Position: Project Engineer

Location: Indianapolis or Kansas City

Preferred Experience: 2-5 years

Our client is a privately owned real estate development and investment company that focuses on build-to-suit and speculative development projects throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. In business since 1990, they offer experienced leadership, a history of successful commercial development projects, broad geographic reach and expertise in a wide range of building types.

Their Core Services include Development Services, Finance, Architecture, Engineering, Legal and Construction Management. Projects include build to suit industrial, manufacturing, and distribution. They were built was a “roll-up-your-sleeves” work ethic and expect it from all team members. "We take pride in doing it right the first time."

Nature and Scope

The individual assigned to this position is accountable for project support of operational procedures, specifically construction activities as it relates to project documentation, monitoring, and coordination in such a way as to ensure scheduled completion of the projects within established budget, time, and quality standards. Coordinating administration functions as it relates to assigned projects to ensure the promptness and accuracy of the entire project administration documents. Internally, this position interacts with Estimating, Accounting, Business Development, Field Personnel, and other support staff. Externally, this position contacts owners, owner representatives, architects, engineers, trade contractors, vendors, and others who are associated with the assigned project.

Principal Accountabilities

Leadership

• Motivation: Inspire and energize people to want to do their best in achieving goals, their mission, strategy, and vision.
• Teamwork: Cultivate, nurture, and produce synergy through others to obtain a goal that is consistent with our core values.
• Change Agent: Recognize the need for change and challenge the status quo to transform the business and personal abilities. Champion and/or Lead by Example expected change.
• Strategic Thinking: Set clear direction and articulate how people fit into the picture and create a sense of purpose relative to achieving expectations, create competitive and breakthrough strategies while understanding future consequences for present choices and adapt to responses and tactics, shifting priorities, and rapid change.
• Initiative: Readiness and willingness to act on opportunities, pursue goals beyond what’s required or expected, and take bold steps to reach the goals potentials.

Management

• Planning: Planning: Properly prepare and organize documentation and logistics of the job site and communicate with the project team to ensure effective and timely use of labor and equipment to meet project deadlines and schedule targets.
• Scheduling: Conducts or takes part in job progress meetings with superintendents, Project Managers, trade contractors, and suppliers to review scheduled project progress, performance, and material deliveries to ensure they are meeting commitments of any milestone and completion dates as set forth in the project schedule.
• Budget / Cost Control: Conducts or takes part in audits to assure the projects costs in labor, materials, and job-related overhead components are trending within the projects budget set forth and turned over and accepted by the Operations Department while managing those components against profit gain/loss.
• Collaboration: Reinforces a working relationship with managers, supervisors, superintendents, fellow workers, architects/engineers, and clients to encourage a cooperative environment and team effort approach for all involved to be successful both personally and professionally.
• Conflict Management/Resolution: Identify and evaluate the critical elements of a situation; legitimize opposing frames of reference; make correct inferences from data; specify alternative courses of action that seek a win-win solution.

Operations

• Contract Documents: Analyzes specifications and drawings to determine project related scope and contractual obligations based on project requirements.
• Project Start-up: Initiates start-up protocol and procedures.
• Project Tracking: Generates and manages project reporting logs to maintain schedule and procurement of materials to the jobsite in accordance with the contract requirements and project schedule.
• Project Closeout: Takes part in project close-out, prepares and updates pre- punch lists, secures warranties, guarantees, operating and maintenance manuals, and other documentation which may be required under the terms of the contract documents and accordance with the standard operating procedures.
• Safety: Promotes, reinforces, and monitors the Corporate Health and Safety Management Program routinely to assure that all project participants are actively involved and adhering to the policies and procedures set forth for each specific project while establishing and reinforcing the corporate safety mindset.
• Client Focus: Collaborates with project Owners and Architect to attain constant expectation requirements and report to project team accordingly as to maintain a “Client Focused” atmosphere.

Administration

Comprehension of the software applications listed below and the ability to produce output that is logical and consistent with the managerial and operations tasks listed within the position description.

Requirements:

1. Bachelor’s degree in construction, engineering, or similar area of study
2. Experience in industrial, commercial, or multi-family.
3. Have good technical background.
4. General knowledge of computer software such as Auto CAD, MS Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Windows, Project Planner software, etc.
5. Experience with project planning, scheduling, and estimating.
6. Ability to prepare subcontractor scopes of work.
7. Familiarity with pricing, purchasing, and preparation of purchase orders for materials and equipment.
8. Ability to read and understand drawings.