The Project Engineer is a traveling role responsible for managing field logistics, ensuring compliance with engineering standards, and supporting project managers and contractors on mission-critical construction projects. This position involves a mix of field and office work, with significant travel and client interaction.
Responsibilities
- Manages plan grid and heavy job for project work accuracy, monitor projects costs to stay within budget.
- Prepares, reviews, and approves supplier purchase orders.
- Understands the owner contract and subcontract documents to understand the inclusions/exclusions for the purpose of invoice payment.
- Validates, reconciles, and maintains accurate quantities for billing purposes and communicates differences to project management.
- Identifies out of scope work for the purpose of changes orders.
- Produce drafts, manage and maintain project submittal/RFI/ logs for lead project manager.
- Schedule, facilitate and manage Gopher 1 tickets.
- Schedule and lead private utility meetings and document conversations to communicate with office personnel.
- Prepare change orders, manage trucking logs and invoice approval.
- Perform on-site safety observations.
- Identifies, completes, and applies for local permits.
- Attends meetings as required with clients, owners and project teams.
- Develop and maintain good working relationship with client, subcontractor, vendors, land-owners, suppliers, etc.
- Develop and oversee the job site-specific requirements relating to safety, site cleanliness, manage delivery schedules, etc.
- Organize and ensure proper documentation and drawing distribution to staff and field personnel.
- Assist in the production and processing of Project deliverables such as Safety and QA/QC plans, and test procedures.
- Assist in drafting subcontractor/P.O agreements and ensure all subcontract agreements are finalized before work begins.
- Plan and coordinate the engineering deliverables from various parties.
- Ability to independently perform tasks assigned with instructions as to the expected general results.
- Track productions to produce project activity profiles.
- Proactively work with Project Management, Field Supervisory, and Client teams to identify and analyze potential risks and impacts to the project schedule.
- Assist with job site duties to keep job site facilities functioning correctly.
- Assist with Estimating duties including but not limited to take-offs, solicitations to subcontractors/suppliers/bid, and quote preparation/bid running.
- Participate in business development events.
- Assist with other duties as assigned by management.
Requirements
- Ability to work with field concepts and work in the office.
- Experience with Microsoft Office Suite.
- Effective communication (oral, written, presentation, listening) with internal and external customers.
- Effective motivational and supervisory skills.
- Ability to organize and prioritize numerous tasks.
- Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations, mean, median, and averages.
- Ability to maintain compliance with all Veit policies and procedures.
- Ability to respond to shifting priorities in a fast-paced environment with a can-do attitude.
- Must have a clean Motor Vehicle record.
- Requires 8 to 10-hour workdays, Monday – Friday.
- Travel requirement is 80% to mission critical job sites.
Nice to Have
- Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in construction management, engineering or related field; 1-3 years of estimating and managing projects experience in related scope of work, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Prior experience using construction software is a plus.
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret project plans and specifications.
Tech Stack
Microsoft Office Suite, construction software
Work Arrangement
onsite — 80% travel to mission critical job sites; Monday–Friday, 8–10 hour workdays
Team
Structure: Works with Project Managers, Superintendents, field personnel, and division leaders.. Reports to: Company project managers and contractors
- Deliberately Safe: We believe all safety incidents are avoidable when everyone operates with a deliberate mindset.
- Build with Intention: We work with grit and determination toward a better future for everyone involved.
- Leaders Dig First: Egos have no place at Veit. Everyone is expected to dig in with a leadership mentality.
- Real Relationships: We approach relationships authentically, with a long-term mindset.
- Integrity in Everything: We act with integrity, treat others as we want to
