Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Veit Management, Inc is one of the country’s leading specialty contractors, specializing in various construction services. They are seeking a Traveling Heavy Civil/Mission Critical Project Engineer/QC or Field Engineer to manage field logistics, ensure compliance with engineering standards, and support project managers in operations and reporting.
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
Skills
- 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
- 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
Benefits
- Hearing protection is provided/required.
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