Project Engineer

Project Engineer

Headquartered in Conyers, Georgia, Batchelor & Kimball takes pride in partnering with our clients to deliver excellent results from engineering and construction to operations and maintenance. We offer design/build and turnkey construction services, including teaming with selected subcontractors for electrical and general construction. If you are looking to grow your career and thrive in a team environment, then we invite you to apply for this position.

We are seeking a Project Engineer who will assist the Project and Senior Project Managers with the administrative tasks surrounding the design phase, pre-construction and construction phase project management including managing scope, scheduling, budgeting, contracts, out-to-bid process, and assist with overseeing the work of the design team. All candidates must meet the following expectations and be able to work independently with minimal oversight.

Job Responsibilities/Accountabilities:

• Work directly with Project Management team to help manage and estimate construction projects
• Completes engineering projects by organizing and controlling project elements.
• Reviews drawings for correctness.
• Assembles miscellaneous details necessary to prepare job bid proposals.
• Develops relationships with sub-contractors and interacts with them to secure necessary information for job bids.
• Support Project Manager in collecting the necessary information to complete the monthly Work in Progress, (WIP) report.
• Assist with projecting and adherence to job budget and timing of tasks.
• Maintains project schedule by monitoring project progress, coordinating activities, and surfacing issues to be resolved. May interface with sub-contracts as necessary to meet schedule
• Controls project costs by recommending expenditures and administering contractor contracts.
• Prepares project status reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends, recommending actions.
• Travel to job site location when necessary to review progress and provide solutions to challenges.
• Assist in project timeline and deadlines
• Maintains a safe and clean working environment by enforcing procedures, rules, and regulations.
• Maintains project database by updating our construction systems
• Be available to support the Project Manager to answer any customer inquiry.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

Supervisory / Budgetary / External Communication Responsibility

• This is an individual contributing role. Will be responsible for communicating primarily internally with the potential of interfacing with sub-contractors.
• May participate in meetings with GC but normally in an observation capacity.

Knowledge, skill and ability requirements (minimum competencies required for job performance)

• Able to manage multiple, competing priorities in a deadline-driven environment
• Leadership abilities to communicate and influence others
• Positive attitude focused on customers and clients
• Superb personal and communication skills with the ability to successfully interact at all levels to the organization including stakeholders, developers, and contractors.
• Exceptional problem solving, administrative, prioritization, and multi-tasking skills.
• Established ability to work self-sufficiently or as part of a team to produce best results.
• Excellent ability in Microsoft Projects, Office, Excel, Word, etc.

Prior work experience and educational requirements

• BSME or similar degree
• Ability to read, interpret, and understand construction drawings
• Working knowledge of project budgeting and pricing of materials and labor
• 2+ years of experience in the construction field and may lead projects that are up to $2.5M in scope.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands are those associated with working in a typical office environment and miscellaneous filed travel.

NOTE: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. The duties described may be changed or reassigned at the discretion of management, and the employee may be required to perform duties that are not listed in the job description.