What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Engineer position at Encore Electric, Inc.?
Overview
Project Engineer assists the Project Manager and field team to ensure customer satisfaction through taking accountability to complete projects on time and on budget.
General Responsibilities
Leadership
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
Knowledge Of
High School Diploma or equivalent is required. A degree in related field or Journeyman’s License with Five years of progressive experience in the electrical trade preferred.
Benefits
For information regarding this position, please contact recruiting@encoreelectric.com
To request an accommodation during the application process, please contact HR@EncoreElectric.com.
Encore Electric, Inc. is an EOE, including disability/vets.
Equal Opportunity Employer
This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.
Project Engineer assists the Project Manager and field team to ensure customer satisfaction through taking accountability to complete projects on time and on budget.
General Responsibilities
- Maintain open communication lines with all working relationships
- Follow up to ensure items for which the job is accountable are performed
- Earn and maintain customer’s trust
- Uphold the core values of the organization
- Work well with others to accomplish the mission of the organization and of the job
Leadership
- Constantly train the field engineers in the project engineer’s role
- Engage and help to develop new Encore standards and processes and hold others accountable to them
- Participate in Project Engineer meetings
- Assist Project Manager with change estimates
- Assist project team with labor cost codes for the project
- Work with Project Manager and Assistant Project Manager to write the commodity purchase order from the installation estimate
- Ensure all parties to the job (at all levels of the job) apply their time into the proper phase code for time keeping
- Take responsibility for submittals
- Assist with submittal creation and procurement of material
- Make certain purchase orders and Subcontracts are written and that the project is current on change orders to the purchase orders
- Coordinate and maintain relationships with all project stakeholders
- Ensure proper maintenance of construction documents
- Actively engage in any required meetings
- Ensure the proper permit is obtained in the jurisdiction for the job location. Understand the permitting process and what the wiring methods are in different jurisdiction
- Responsible for project closeout documentation
- Prior to completion, involves the service department so they know the job and are introduced to the owner to maintain the relationship
- Assist closing out the job with vendors
- Work with project team to set up the job
- Work with the project team to build an information sheet and map to the jobsite
- Assist Project Manager as necessary in performing cost to complete on a monthly basis
- Strong communications with the entire project team (Internal and External)
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
Knowledge Of
- The construction process from scheduling to manpower to the labor, materials and equipment required for installation
- Constructability and the construction process
- Algebra and geometry
- Statistics
- Financial math
- Acting as a self-starter
- Good organization skills
- Spatial orientation
- Identifying scope gaps in construction documents
- Customer management
- Listening
- Speaking intelligently
- Estimating resources needed to complete required tasks
- Adapting to new and changing requirements, environments, and/or information
- Managing people and processes
- Managing complex projects, breaking them down to their component levels
- Using communication software
- Effective written and oral communication sufficient to be able to elicit and communicate information and achieve understanding (Technical/Business writing)
- Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with customers, vendors, consultants, management, and employees
- Operating a computer
- Operate Microsoft office products
- Organizing work to accomplish tasks
- Reading and writing
- Prioritizing and reprioritizing to meet job needs
- Identifying and managing risk
- Problem solving
- Tracking numbers and bits of data relevant to the work assignment
- Retain and access critical information from memory
- Conceptualize and visualize the project for constructability means and methods
- Think on your feet
- Understand when to speak and when not to speak
- Be personally detached from ideas (no ego)
- See things from multiple perspectives
- Ability to coordinate effectively with all ENCORE Support Services
- Driving
- Sitting
- Climbing
- Lifting (up to 50 lbs)
- Standing
- Stooping
- Vision acuity (near and far)
- Walking
High School Diploma or equivalent is required. A degree in related field or Journeyman’s License with Five years of progressive experience in the electrical trade preferred.
Benefits
- Encore Electric provides excellent benefits for our employees, including: medical, dental, and vision plans, disability, and life insurance, employee-matched 401(k), paid time off (PTO), an employee assistance program that includes counseling, legal, and financial advice.
- Encore also provides a generous employee referral program, and access to technical, safety, personal finance, and leadership training through Encore University, Encore’s in house training program.
- This position is eligible for cell phone allowances and the short-term incentive program.
For information regarding this position, please contact recruiting@encoreelectric.com
To request an accommodation during the application process, please contact HR@EncoreElectric.com.
Encore Electric, Inc. is an EOE, including disability/vets.
Equal Opportunity Employer
This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.