The Project Engineer is a technically skilled and experienced engineer with developed communication, coordination, project management and leadership skills. The Project Engineer actively participates in mentoring and development of engineers. The Project Engineer is expected to proactively coordinate, communicate, problem solve across disciplines, and exhibit the ability to balance the client relationship with an understanding of the project’s financial goals.
Responsibilities -
- Leads the design on Tenant fit-out projects and is a key designer on base building/infrastructure upgrades; Assembles riser diagrams, schedules, and floor plans; Participates in specification writing.
- Assists in establishing design criteria from the project proposal and assembles basis of design documents.
- Assembles a complete set of contract documents for their trade including the lay out main equipment rooms, closets, shafts, risers, etc.
- Leads design for their trade’s ancillary systems required for a project and can assemble scope associated drawings with these systems (e.g., UPS, generators, fuel oil, secondary water pumps, water reclamation system, etc.).
- Reviews shop drawings, RFI’s, Contractor change orders, performs site visits and punch-lists with limited supervision to verify that designs are being implemented accurately.
- Assists in establishing an efficient project schedule for his/her project team that ensures appropriate use of resources while adhering to deadlines.
- Assists in following up on progress and completion of tasks; holds team members accountable to completing tasks on time regardless of his/her position.
- Assists in communicating with all internal and external project members about deadlines, issues, meetings, and deliverables to project success.
- Participates in the preparation of basic proposals/add services; prompts Supervising Partner/Associate for review and approvals; Assists in managing design/Owner changes.
- Assists in coordinating, collaborating and updating entire project team (all internal departments) on a regular basis to ensure that design documents are aligned, and deadlines and design expectations are met.
Qualifications -
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical or mechanical engineering.
- Proven demonstration of all the competencies and experience of a Senior Engineer OR a Minimum of 3+ years of experience
- Excellent oral and written communication
- Proficient in all design calculations and software tools (e.g., Revit and AutoCAD) applicable to their discipline.
- Strong understanding of trade-specific scope of project (i.e., proposal/add-service), trade-related codes (including energy, building, etc.) and the required coordination with other trades.
- Strong understanding of documentation requirements and content for each deliverable phase (e.g., SD, DD, CD and specifications).
- Understands and implements office procedures related to both design (i.e. archiving drawings, filing drawings and forms, etc.) and construction administration (i.e., updating shop drawing log, updating RFI log, etc.).
