Construction Project Engineer | QC Engineer - Mission Critical Projects

About the role

The Traveling Heavy Civil/Mission Critical Project Engineer/QC or Field Engineer manages the field logistics and updates company project managers and contractors to ensure mission critical projects comply with engineering standards, codes, and specifications. This position works closely with Project Managers and Superintendents to provide direction and support in managing operations, overseeing logistics, and generating reports for division leaders.

Responsibilities

• Manages plan grid and heavy job for project work accuracy, monitors projects costs to stay within budget.
• Prepares, reviews, and approves supplier purchase orders.
• Understands owner contract and subcontract documents to understand inclusions/exclusions for 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 change orders.
• Produces drafts, manages, and maintains project submittal/RFI/ logs for lead project manager.
• Schedules, facilitates, and manages Gopher 1 tickets.
• Schedule and lead private utility meetings and document conversations to communicate with office personnel.
• Performs on-site safety observations.
• Identifies, completes, and applies for local permits.
• Attends meetings as required with clients, owners, and project teams.
• Develops and maintains good working relationships with clients, subcontractors, vendors, land-owners, suppliers, etc.
• Plans and coordinates engineering deliverables from various parties.
• Tracks productions to produce project activity profiles.
• Proactively works with Project Management, Field Supervisory, and Client teams to identify and analyze potential risks and impacts to the project schedule.
• Aids in job site duties to keep job site facilities functioning correctly.
• Aids in estimating duties including take-offs, solicitations to subcontractors/suppliers/bid, and quote preparation/bid running.
• Participates in business development events.
• Assists with other duties as assigned by management.

Requirements

• 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.
• Requires 8 to 10-hour workdays, Monday – Friday.
• Travel requirement is 80% to mission critical job sites.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described are representative of those that must be met by any employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The employee is regularly required to stand and/or sit in a stationary position for extended periods of time; 50%+. The employee is regularly required to use a computer/laptop/iPad in an office environment with natural and/or florescent lighting, navigate between office building floors, attend off-site meetings, and lift up to 50 lbs. unassisted. The employee occasionally may encounter high noise levels, but hearing protection is provided/required. Work environment includes exposure to environmental conditions, working near machines and loud noises associated with construction sites. Exposed to variable weather conditions including rain, snow, wind, cold and heat. Also exposed to variable terrain.

Who Are We?

Veit is one of the country's leading specialty contractors, with nearly a century of experience and the best people in the industry. We specialize in foundations, earthwork, utilities, marine services, industrial cleaning, cured-in-place pipelining, and waste disposal. We pride ourselves on our relentless pursuit to push the construction industry forward and deliver for our customers. Our modern fleet of iron, diverse expertise, and unmatched determination allow us to successfully tackle some of the largest and most complex projects across every sector while also living out our values every day. Our company culture is one where everyone pitches in to get the job done, regardless of job title or seniority. We do everything we can to maintain an atmosphere where family comes first. We want every one of our employees to look forward to each day at work and make it home safe and happy at the end of the day. Never settle, dig deeper

Our Core Values

• Deliberately Safe: We believe all safety incidents are avoidable when everyone operates with a deliberate mindset. We are deliberately proactive and thorough in training and job planning. We are deliberately safe in our everyday operations and decision-making.
• Build with Intention: We build with intention. Whether in the office or the field, we work with grit and determination toward a better future for everyone involved. We leave things better than we found them, and never leave a job until we're proud to put the Veit name on it.
• Leaders Dig First: Egos have no place at Veit. We expect everyone on our team to dig in with a leadership mentality. That means being willing to jump in, take ownership, and get mud on our boots — especially when times get challenging.
• Real Relationships: Like our work, we approach relationships authentically, with a long-term mindset. Whether you're a client partner, vendor, or team member, we make an effort to build a more meaningful connection with you by communicating with respect and honesty.
• Integrity in Everything: As part of the Veit family, everything we do and say reflects on this entire company. We act with integrity, which means treating others just as we want to be treated, doing the right thing, and holding ourselves accountable.