Founded in 2007, Markon is a nationally recognized consulting firm headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia. With employees in seven states and overseas, we support the intelligence community, defense and civilian sectors, as well as commercial clients. Markon is committed to advancing clients through project management and business improvement services offered in a premiere, highly personal environment.

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Description:

Markon looking for a junior project engineer with expertise in the construction industry to provide Owner's Representative construction management services to a DoD client.

Responsibilities:

• Assist the Government in conducting site evaluations, field surveys, and site visits to determine constructability and code compliance. Develop draft scopes of work, validation of requirements, and participates in pre-bid conferences.
• Support the Government’s development of technical requirements, scopes of work, cost estimate analysis and schedules for A/E services, to include studies, reports and drawings review.
• Support the Government’s tracking of construction progress, submittals, permit applications, organization of files, and invoicing as part of a larger team.
• Schedule and participate in weekly project progress meetings and monthly program progress meetings to evaluate schedule progress, identify departures from the accepted baseline schedule, and evaluate risk to long-term project and program health.
• Ability to work independently to track down requirements and data from other project managers or clients in a professional manner with complete and on time submissions.
• Maintain construction administration data in Excel, web based software and files to be aggregated and used as metrics and briefing tools for senior leadership.
• Work with Project Managers to develop and track progress of project lifecycle milestone schedules and Government activities to insure timely delivery of the Government construction program.
• Support Project Managers by researching and preparing project status briefings, developing and maintaining performance matrixes, preparing well-written technical reports. Prepares written and oral reports to Government leadership and program managers. 

• BS in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, 
  or 
  An ACTIVE General Contractor/Construction Trades license with 4 years of construction experience.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Must be able to pass and maintain a Public Trust clearance (HSPD-12 fingerprint background check).

Preferred: Pentagon WHS experience is highly sought after.