Construction Project Engineer

Gilder Search Group; Aiken, Northern (SC, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Gilder Search Group seeks an experienced Senior Project Engineer to support SRNS through engineering leadership, design criteria, and project controls. You will guide scheduling, resource forecasting, and baselines while ensuring quality across projects.

Ideal candidate holds PE licensure with an advanced degree and extensive experience, mentoring juniors and coordinating with diverse teams to meet objectives and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• Innovative engineering leadership with advanced degrees and long-term experience.
• Registered PE licensure strongly preferred.
• Experience providing engineering direction, leadership, and project management for multiple projects.

Responsibilities

• Provide staff augmentation and manage engineering activities for assigned projects.
• Establish design criteria, forecasts, schedules, and priorities for projects.
• Support development of future projects using project management tools and methods.
• Manage project tasks, and deliver results for cost and schedule.

Education

PhD degree

MS degree

BS degree

Tools

EVMS tools

Job description

Education:

Typically an advance degree and experience - PhD degree and about 15 years experience, MS degree and 17 years experience, BS degree and about 21 years experience.

Additional Duties

• Provide staff augmentation support to SRNS. Integrate and manage engineering activities for assigned projects by assisting in establishing design criteria, resource forecasts, schedules, and priorities. Provide project management tools and methods to assigned projects and support development of future projects. Manage project tasks and deliver results for cost and schedule of those tasks.
• Engineering services should be provided using SRNS processes and procedures. Programmatic guidance will be provided by SRNS. Additional Education
• BS Degree in Engineering or current registration as a Professional Engineer

Additional Experience/Qualifications

• The following experience is required for this position:
• Registered PE licensure in any state is strongly preferred.
• The following experience is required for this position:
• Providing overall engineering and design direction, leadership, and management for assigned projects and tasks.
• Integrating engineering resources for assigned projects by assisting in establishing design criteria, resource forecasts, schedules, and engineering tools for engineering tasks.
• Providing administrative guidance to leads and managers.
• Responsibilities for overall management, scheduling, and priority of the tasks and projects assigned.
• Managing the administration, document control, project controls, and quality engineering sections for all assigned projects through section supervisors.
• Resolving conflicts between project direction and technical direction from the functional managers.
• Participating in department and site-wide programmatic issues resolution and quality improvements.
• Responsibilities for creating a team through requesting, evaluating, and developing engineering expertise capable of achieving the objectives of the projects assigned.
• Evaluating tasks of subcontractors to ensure design output meets project technical, cost, and schedule objectives.
• Establishing baselines for design activities for all assigned projects and engineering work requests.
• Recommending project managers, subcontractor authorizations for new work and changes to baselines.
• Evaluating project cost and schedule variances and implementing corrective actions.
• Experience with EVMS tools.
• Reviewing cost accounts for procurement of engineered materials.
• Working with diverse teams to deliver results.
• Establishing projects' scope of work including assuring that there are firm customer requirements developed.

Additional Work Requirements

• Candidate must be able to perform field walk-downs of the job site for the engineering work being performed. These walk-downs may involve construction sites with uneven surfaces and work in progress, walking for distances over a half mile, climbing ladders to access remote areas, dressing out in protective clothing and environments where a respirator is required.
• Candidates must have the ability to produce quality documents with attention to detail and meeting management defined expectations.
• Candidate must have the ability to coordinate, interface, and communicate with management, engineering, facility, operations, quality assurance, and test personnel.
• Candidate must have the ability to communicate clear, concise, and accurate reports, evaluations, documents, procedures, reviews, comment resolutions, email, and oral presentations.
• Candidates must have the ability to mentor junior team members and develop their design knowledge.