Project Engineer II

About Us

Clayco is a full-service, turnkey real estate development, master planning, architecture, engineering, and construction firm that safely delivers clients across North America the highest quality solutions on time, on budget, and above and beyond expectations. With $8.1 billion in revenue for 2025, Clayco specializes in the "art and science of building," providing fast track, efficient solutions for mission critical, industrial, life sciences, power & energy, aviation, commercial, institutional, residential and sports & entertainment related building projects.

About LJC

LJC Design & Engineering (LJC) is a full-service architecture, engineering, and design firm committed to enhancing the quality of the human experience through integrated design. We are a team of high-energy professionals who share a passion for design, a collaborative approach, and a casual culture. We solve challenges by leveraging the collective expertise and ingenuity of the best and brightest minds across development, design, engineering, and construction.

The Role We Want You For

LJC is seeking a Project Engineer 2 to support the successful delivery of complex design-build projects across multiple markets including food and beverage, manufacturing, data centers, and life sciences. This role builds upon core Project Engineer responsibilities with a strong emphasis on data analytics, performance tracking, and process optimization to drive project success.

You will collaborate closely with internal engineering, architecture, and construction teams, while coordinating with external partners and equipment OEMs. This role plays a critical part in ensuring alignment across all project stakeholders from early pursuit through project closeout.

The Specifics of the Role

• Manage assigned phase or discipline scope from pursuit through design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and closeout, including ownership of schedule, coordination, quality, and milestone readiness.
• Lead coordination of design packages across internal engineering, architecture, and construction teams.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for equipment OEMs and external project partners.
• Build and maintain phase-level schedules, manage cross-discipline dependencies, and proactively address impacts to milestones.
• Manage scope, schedule, quality, and information flow within assigned phase, and provide reliable inputs to the Project Manager.
• Manage and coordinate action items, decisions, change request, RFIs, and submittals.
• Utilize project data, reporting tools, and performance metrics to track progress, manage phase performance, and support forecasting and decision-making.
• Identify and escalate risks with proposed solutions and impacts; drive resolution within assigned authority.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure design intent aligns with constructability and project execution.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, or a related field.
• 2-5 years of experience in construction, engineering, architecture or design-build project delivery.
• Experience supporting projects across multiple phases (design, procurement, construction, commissioning, closeout).
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, SharePoint).
• Strong understanding of project coordination, scheduling, and document control processes.
• Experience working with multidisciplinary teams and external vendors.
• Exposure to data analytics, reporting tools, or performance tracking systems is strongly preferred.
• Experience leveraging AI tools is strongly preferred.
• Excellent communication, organization, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.

Some Things You Should Know

• Our clients and projects are nationwide – travel may be required
• No other builder can offer the collaborative design-build approach that Clayco does
• We work on creative, complex, award-winning, high-profile jobs
• The pace is fast
• This position may be classified as a safety-sensitive role depending on project assignment

Why Clayco & LJC?

• 2025 Best Places to Work – St. Louis Business Journal, Los Angeles Business Journal, and Phoenix Business Journal.
• 2025 ENR Top 400 – Top Data Center Contractor (Top 3).
• 2025 ENR Top 100 Design-Build Firms – Design-Build Contractor (Top 5).
• 2025 ENR Top 100 Green Contractors – Green Contractor (Top 3).

Benefits

• Discretionary Annual Bonus: Subject to company and individual performance
• Comprehensive Benefits Package Including: Medical, dental and vision plans, 401k, generous PTO and paid company holidays, employee assistance program, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, disability coverage, learning & development programs and more

Compensation

• The salary range for this position considers a wide range of factors in making compensation decisions including but not limited to: education, qualifications, skills, training, experience, certifications, internal equity, and location. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.