Facilities - CM Project Engineer

Facilities - CM Project Engineer

Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson is a dynamic, 100% employee-owned consulting firm with more than 2,800 professionals, providing a full range of multidisciplinary engineering, architecture, information technology, and related services to public agencies and private clients throughout the United States. JMT is currently ranked #45 on Engineering News-Record's list of the Top 500 Design Firms.

Position summary: The Facilities - CM Project Engineer is responsible for assisting in leading and overseeing assigned high voltage infrastructure and construction projects by working with engineers, architects, internal departments, project managers, integrators, consultants, and contractors in developing a plan to determine project time frames, distribute resources, and ensure timely completion of activities. The Project Engineer understands the project deliverables and creates timelines for different individuals and/or groups involved to make sure the project remains on track. The Project Engineer provides schedules, cost budgets and project estimates using knowledge of general engineering and construction principles. The Project Engineer interprets, organizes, coordinates, communicates, and executes assignments with limited supervision, ensuring work is performed and completed in accordance with industry standards, and providing support to other team members.

Immigration sponsorship or support (e.g. H1B, F-1 CPT/OPT/STEM OPT) is not available for this position, except for qualified candidates eligible for the TN visa classification.

Essential functions and responsibilities

• Plans, schedules, and coordinates work throughout the various phases of the project. May be responsible for a portion of a large project or the entirety of a small to medium size project.
• Monitor project progress to ensure work is being executed in accordance with contract plans and specifications.
• Read and interpret construction documents such as drawings, specifications, geotechnical, testing and inspection reports, maps, aerial photography, topographical surveys, and related documentation to prepare estimates on material quantities and project cost.
• Prepare reports and logs such as daily field reports, cost to date, estimated cost to complete, submittals, RFI's, etc.
• Assist with performing quantity surveys and take-offs from contract documents and actual work-in-place.
• Prepare and compile contract plans, specifications, and estimates. Prepare proposals as required.
• Manage project sub-consultants and in-house support disciplines.
• Develop work order requests and open-ended contract task proposals.
• Collaborate with project stakeholders and construction operations teams to define project scope and to develop appropriate budgets for capital expenditure on new and existing projects.
• Communicate project budget parameters to design, construction, financial teams, and other internal partners to aid in planning and design.
• Communicate in a proactive way overages to broader team when necessary.
• Work with architects, engineers, construction, and design teams to identify value engineering opportunities to assist with the definition of the design team's intent to realize a more cost-effective project.
• Support finance team with necessary cost breakouts to enhance the decision-making process. Track project budget, actuals, committed funds, estimate to completion, estimate at completion and variance. Assign cost codes to standardize work values.
• Develop and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders (vendors, contractors, engineers, construction crews and consultants).
• Schedule meetings with clients, site managers, and staff. Attend various meetings, record and distribute meeting minutes.
• Communicate and coordinate with team members to ensure projects are completed by the defined milestones and within established cost goals.
• Coordinating tasks by different people on different sites to ensure uniformity upon project completion.
• Ensuring timely completion of the project to build client trust while avoiding unnecessary penalties.
• Working within the budget by adequately estimating the costs and cutting unnecessary expenses
• Procuring and allocating resources to ensure there is no shortage while avoiding any unnecessary delays caused by management decisions.
• Managing both internal and external risks within the project's lifetime, such as poor planning designs, and government policies, which directly or indirectly affect the project.

Nonessential functions and responsibilities

• Develop detailed cost estimates with relevant information necessary to track actual execution versus estimated costs. Upload cost data into developed databases.
• Perform ad-hoc estimates to support new initiatives and project development.
• Prepare order-of-magnitude, conceptual, feasibility, pre-design, budget, value engineering, control, definitive and final engineer's estimates on assigned projects.

Required Skills

• Possesses advanced computer skills and experience to include but not limited to: MS Excel, MS Word, Data Bases, Adobe, Bluebeam and other similar software applications.
• Proactive and effective in communicating the estimated cost implications of decisions made during the design development process to all members. Proficient written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment to manage multiple projects and competing priorities. Good organizational and time management skills. Ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
• Good attention to detail with exceptional quantitative skills.
• Strong work ethic. Willing to do what it takes to get the job done. Dependable, conscientious, and well-spoken.

Required Experience

• Bachelor's degree in civil engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, construction management or a related field from an accredited engineering, or construction management program.
• Previous construction and/or scheduling experience. Experience in scheduling and project controls in all phases of construction.
• Knowledgeable with CPM scheduling. Experienced with Primavera P6 and/or Microsoft Project is preferred.

Preferred Experience

• Certification as a Project Manager Professional (PMP) or other similar certification relevant to the job function.

Working Conditions

Work is performed in both an office and field (construction) environment. Office to field time is approximately 80% to 20% respectively. Field work requires climbing, walking and standing at a construction site and may be outside in heat/cold, wet/humid, and dry/arid conditions. Some lifting (up to 50 lbs) may be required.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.