What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Engineer position at Chugach Government Solutions?
About Us:
The federal division of Chugach Alaska Corporation, CGS has been supporting critical missions as a government contractor for over 25 years. Our focus is to support facility maintenance, IT/technical services, construction and education. We are proud to have built, and continue to foster, an incredibly talented team spanning across the globe in hundreds of different fields – each team member proud to serve our country with first-class business services, while also making a difference for our Chugach shareholders.
At CGS, empowering employees is a part of our core, and that focus is one of the ways we build and foster high-performing teams. We empower our employees through competitive compensation and benefits package, professional growth opportunities, truthful communication, and more!
If you are looking for an opportunity to serve something bigger than yourself; if you want your day job to be one that creates meaningful value; if you are looking for an environment that highly values employees and respects individual differences – then Chugach Government Solutions may be the right fit for you!
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Job Overview:
When you work at Chugach Government Solutions (CGS), you join a proud legacy of supporting missions while sustaining culture.
The federal division of Chugach Alaska Corporation, CGS has been supporting critical missions as a government contractor for over 25 years. Our focus is to support facility maintenance, IT/technical services, construction and education. We are proud to have built, and continue to foster, an incredibly talented team spanning across the globe in hundreds of different fields – each team member proud to serve our country with first-class business services, while also making a difference for our Chugach shareholders.
At CGS, empowering employees is a part of our core, and that focus is one of the ways we build and foster high-performing teams. We empower our employees through competitive compensation and benefits package, professional growth opportunities, truthful communication, and more!
If you are looking for an opportunity to serve something bigger than yourself; if you want your day job to be one that creates meaningful value; if you are looking for an environment that highly values employees and respects individual differences – then Chugach Government Solutions may be the right fit for you!
This position is based in Gig Harbor, WA and will support project sites throughout the NAVFAC Northwest AO.
Job Overview:
This position reports to the Quality Control Manager to ensure compliance of the Construction Quality Assurance Plan as it is administered in the execution of construction projects. This position is responsible for assisting with project planning, procurement and project submittals in support of Chugach construction projects. The Project Engineer Tech will be expected to provide technical support on site and assist with administrating oversight of the Quality Control and Project Management applications, ensuring the accuracy for project related information and distributing information timely and professionally.
Responsibilities:
Essential Job Duties:
- Participates in Preconstruction Conferences. Notifies user and all base agencies to attend conference and briefs on contract plans/specifications and special requirements; provides technical responses to construction related activities as assigned.
- Reviews and recommends approval of contractor progress schedules. Ensures that scheduling is accurate, reasonable, in proper format, correctly sequenced.
- Prepares and reviews contract submittals and shop drawings. Ensures submittals comply with contract specifications.
- Works with QCM and CM’s to prepare weekly progress reports. Record actual percentage of work complete, and accepted; essential for progress payments.
- Attend and assist in negotiations of modifications and/or Delivery Orders.
- Completes contract close out of completed construction contracts.
- Frequent travel to field locations.
- Candidate should have the capability to work within Quality Control and construction management applications utilizing best practices to create, distribute, input, monitor and review construction documentation and correspondence proficiently. Candidate will be able to designate authorities as necessary with the applications listed above.
- Candidate should have the capability to review and analyze product information to determine compliance with specifications, drawings and vendor white papers.
- The candidate will be tasked to deploy, monitor and control project files and information to create a program library for current and future projects.
- Candidate should be able to communicate internally and externally to the organization to effectively and efficiently distribute and retrieve information to achieve approval and/or disseminate information for project execution.
- Other duties as assigned.
Key Responsibilities:
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Timely and cost effective performance of duties.
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Harmoniously working with other employees and customers.
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Working with the Project Principals to fully coordinate all activities.
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Effectively coordinate a number of projects simultaneously.
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Demonstrated ability to work well under pressure.
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Effective written and oral communication skills.
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Demonstrating initiative and problem-solving skills.
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Contributing to the successful completion of project initiatives.
Mandatory:
- Two (2) years of college course work in Quality Control or Engineering related discipline.
- Strong ability to track multiple projects and ensure document submissions to various USG contacts.
- Ability to read, analyze and interpret technical construction documents and procedures, and governmental regulations. Ability to present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the public.
- Ability to accomplish tasks to completion in a timely manner with little oversight
- Candidate must be able to perform at a high tempo in order to meet critical customer deadlines while ensuring compliance to contractual guidelines
- Ability to define problems, collect data and establish facts
- Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
- The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally life and/or move up to 50 pounds.
Preferred:
- 5 years’ of experience in construction management, construction planning or similar roles
- Previous experience in NavFac, ACOE and other federal agencies
- Engineering background is strongly preferred
- Construction operations experience is strongly preferred
- Experience in remote location work
Chugach Government Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, disability, genetic factors, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
Chugach will provide reasonable accommodations, according to applicable state and federal laws, to all qualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities. In compliance with the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA), if you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation in order to apply for a position with Chugach Government Solutions or any of its subsidiaries, please email ada@chugachgov.com.
Chugach Government Solutions supports pay transparency and is committed to equitable and competitive compensation practices. Compensation for this role will be determined based on factors including job responsibilities, experience, skills, internal equity, geographic location, and applicable contract requirements. Where required by law, compensation ranges will be provided to candidates during the hiring process.