Project Engineer - Career Start - Archbald, PA
Overview
Suffolk is a national enterprise that builds, innovates, and invests. We provide value across the entire project lifecycle through our core construction management services and complementary business lines in real estate investment, design, self-perform construction, and technology start-up investment (Suffolk Technologies).
We integrate data, artificial intelligence, and advanced technology through our Seamless Platform to connect design, construction, and operations, delivering smarter, more predictable results and redefining how America builds.
We manage some of the most complex and transformative projects in the country, serving clients across healthcare, life sciences, education, gaming, aviation, transportation, government, mission critical, and commercial sectors.
Suffolk is privately held and led by founder, chairman and CEO John Fish. We are ranked #8 on ENR’s list of “Top CM-at-Risk Contractors.”
At Suffolk, we believe in offering a comprehensive benefits package that supports you and your family's needs. Our program includes competitive salaries, auto allowances and gas cards for certain roles, access to market-leading medical and emotional and mental health benefits, dental, and vision insurance plans, virtual care options for physical therapy and primary care, generous paid time off, a 401(k) plan with employer match and access to expert financial resources, company-paid and voluntary life insurance, tax-deferred savings accounts, 10 backup daycare days each year, short- and long-term disability, commuter benefits, and more.
Responsibilities
- Estimating
- Assist with a Subcontractor database
- Absorb with assembling Bid Documents for pricing
- Document Take-off’s: Specification review and preliminary scope development
- Organize the take-off using spreadsheets
- Develop bid clarifications and RFI’s
- Participate in the project “Walk-Through” as required
- Review trade duration (with subcontractors) for input to the Project Schedule
- Assist with the development and updating of the scope sheet for subcontractor pricing
- Develop Trade Spreadsheet for Subcontractors’ Bids
- Absorb with Subcontractor pricing
- Absorb in development of the detailed estimate
- Assist in writing: Qualifications and Assumptions for Contract
- Establishing the Accepted Value Engineering
- Establishing the Alternate Pricing
- Confirming the Document List
- Field Operations
- Gain a basic knowledge and understanding of document control
- Knowledge on reading and processing basic shop drawings and comparing them to project documents
- Verification of shop drawings to field conditions
- Gain a basic understanding of the Exhibit B process
- Assist in maintenance of project files
- Support the quality control and punch list process
- Gain a basic understanding of the construction process, including the means and methods of various trades
- Aid in site logistics and Construction Management Plan
- Aid in establishing and maintaining vertical and horizontal control on the project
- Aid in safety requirements on the job
- Aid in the Baseline Schedule updates
- Aid Superintendent with project documentation including the daily report
- Project Management
- Absorb with creation of Change Orders and understand the processes and procedures around them
- Absorb with purchasing process, from procurement through execution of the Subcontract/PO
- Absorb with the back charge process
- Absorb with processing of vendor and subcontractor requisitions
- Knowledge on reading and processing shop drawings and comparing them to project documents
- Absorb with the owner requisition process
- Support the punch list process and work with the team to develop O&M Manuals and as-built warranty information
- Absorb with the submittal, procurement, and delivery process
- Participate in project meetings
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Liberal Arts, or a related field
- 0-2 years of related experience
- Computer literate
- Good communication skills
- Accurate with an attention to detail