Project Engineer, Civil Engineering

Project Engineer I

Job :

Category:
Engineering

Type:
Full‑Time

Job Location s: US-CA-Long Beach

Vanir is a proud minority‑ and woman‑owned company, recognized as a national leader in program, project and construction management (PMCM) and real estate development. Since 1964, we have consistently exceeded client expectations. Ranked as a top PMCM firm by Engineering News‑Record (ENR) for more than three decades, our award‑winning team provides a full range of services to public and private sector clients in the aviation;

healthcare; education (K‑12 and higher); justice and essential services; science and technology; state and local government; transportation; water and wastewater; energy; and commercial, residential and nonprofit markets.

The Project Engineer provides project technical support in the areas of evaluation, coordination, and distribution of project‑specific information, authorizations, project performance, and status. Maintain current documentation to insure project data, compliance, budget, and schedule. Exercises discretion and independent judgment on a regular basis to perform tasks in furtherance of organization and client’s needs. The Project Engineer is expected at times to step into the roles of more senior members of the team, including, without limitation, running design or construction meetings, conducting field checks, preparing written and photographic materials including correspondence, reports, procedures, guidelines and meeting minutes.

The Project Engineer coordinates with the Design Team for conformance review and timely and accurate responses to requests for information, submittals, construction change documents, etc. He/she is the person primarily responsible to maintain project files in both electronic and paper format.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

Functional knowledge of contracts, drawings, estimates, and specifications to evaluate and ensure relation and compliance to project requirements.

• Maintain document and project controls systems and procedures. Monitors, evaluates and ensures compliance with systems and procedures.
• Participate in project meetings to include documentation, administration, and tracking of relevant information and statuses.
• Evaluates, tracks, and ensures contractor, architect, engineer, and provider contractual requirements on areas of safety, performance, project staff, and equipment for project leadership.
• Performs independent analysis and evaluation of change orders and provides recommendations to project leadership.
• Project closeout to ensure punch list resolution and to secure guarantees, warranties, as‑builts, and related provisions for project leadership and handover to owner entities.
• Obtain and maintain data, information, communications, and approvals required by project and company requirements between owner, architects, engineers, contractors/subcontractors, or other project related entities.
• Design Team Coordination for conformance review and timely and accurate responses to request for informations, submittals, construction change documents, etc.
• Makes field checks on construction, demolition, rehabilitation, alteration addition or repair projects to determine compliance with job specifications, plans and established university standards.
• Provide all services and objectives to ensure the quality of Vanir’s services.
• Perform other duties as required.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree with emphasis in technical disciplines such as engineering, construction management, architecture, project management, or equivalent technical area of study is preferred.
• 3 years experience in a similar or equivalent position involved in project or construction management of commercial and/or public or educational facility construction projects.
• Should possess knowledge and application of construction estimating, cost, project controls/scheduling, documentation, engineering and construction principles, techniques, applications, and practices.
• Basic understanding and application of accounting, cost, administrative, and personnel interaction in professional settings.
• Strong computer skills and familiarity with Microsoft…