Rotational Project Engineer

About the Role

Through a series of formal rotations and learning experiences, the Rotational Project Engineer directs, coordinates, and exercises functional authority for planning, organization, control, integration, and completion of assigned projects and tasks. Formal rotation assignments include the Operations and Estimating departments.

Key Responsibilities

Estimating Rotation

• Executes amendments and/or change orders.
• Discusses schedule and budget with client, architect, and engineer.
• Develops key vendor lists to ensure database of subcontractors and suppliers are current.
• Prepares, completes, or reviews all project reports for accuracy. Provides project status reports, financial reports, and project schedules in accordance with company guidelines on timeliness and completeness of information.
• Attends pre-construction and/or bid meetings.
• Facilitates weekly project status meetings with owner, owners' rep, vendors, subcontractors, and others connected with the project, preparing and distributing meeting minutes indicating agreements reached, task assignments, and related information.
• Ensures all bid requirements are known at the outset of the bidding process.
• Manages trades.
• Responsible for labor counts.
• Assists with scheduling materials/deliveries.

Operations Rotation

• Sets up meetings and interacts with subcontractors.
• Reads and interprets blueprints and specifications.
• Acquires all necessary insurance certificates and permits for project start-up.
• Responds to clients' questions/requests.
• Responsible for subcontractors and all activities on site.
• Sets up and compiles close-out books.

Soft Skills Or Competencies

• Process Management: Takes a systematic approach to making the company’s workflow more effective, efficient, and capable of adapting to an ever-changing environment.
• Quality Focus: Ensures all work in one’s own area of the business, throughout the organization, by vendors, suppliers, etc., is performed with excellence and to high standards for quality and integrity.
• Information Seeking: Driven by an underlying curiosity and desire to know more about things, people, or issues. This involves going beyond routine questions and includes digging or pressing for exact information; resolving discrepancies by asking a series of questions; or conducting less-focused environmental scanning for opportunities or miscellaneous information that may be used in the future.
• Planning and Priority Setting: Identifies the priorities, processes, and practical actions necessary to achieve an objective or an idea, requiring detailed action or project plans, including objectives, accountabilities, time frames, standards, review stages, and contingencies.
• Communicating: Provides the information required by others in a concise, direct, and unambiguous way, perceiving how the message affects the receiver and striving to ensure the receiver clearly understands the specifics and function of the message.
• Negotiating: Identifies key bargaining points for all parties and works effectively toward win-win solutions.
• Organizational Savvy: Gathers and accurately assesses information related to the organization’s formal and informal communication channels and power relationships.
• Directing: Manages the contribution and performance of individuals and teams to ensure company objectives are achieved and standards are met, involving communicating with others to make clear what is expected of them and conveying expectations about timeliness and quality.
• Time Management: Focuses on completing all work tasks in a timely manner while remaining responsive enough to react to competing demands and shifting priorities. Manages multiple responsibilities while staying organized, keeping on top of important time-sensitive tasks, and performing all work accurately.
• Safety Focus: Takes the practical actions necessary to ensure that the incidence and probability of workplace accidents, injuries, and illnesses are minimized, involving keeping up-to-date with current workplace safety laws, research, and best practices; ensuring awareness of safety-related issues; remaining vigilant for potential hazards; and taking all precautions to ensure the well-being of all employees.
• Composure and Resiliency: Deals effectively with pressure, maintains focus and intensity, and remains optimistic and persistent, even under adversity. This includes the ability and propensity to recover quickly from setbacks, rejections, and conflicts and to maintain self-control in the face of hostility or provocation.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• B.S. Degree in Construction, Engineering, or Management preferred.
• 0 – 2 years of related experience and/or training.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Salary Range: $72,000 - $80,000