Construction Project Engineer

Exus Renewables North America Open Roles; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Exus Renewables North America is seeking a Construction Project Engineer in Pittsburgh to partner with Project Managers, Site Managers, the Director of Construction, and the Head of Construction. You will serve as the central technical coordinator through the EPC project lifecycle, coordinating detailed engineering, procurement, construction support, and commissioning.

The Project Engineer acts as the primary technical bridge between discipline engineers, project management, procurement, field

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in civil or electrical engineering or construction management.
• 3+ years direct EPC or heavy industrial project execution experience.
• Experience managing major equipment vendor packages, resolving field RFIs, and leading discipline integration on projects from groundbreaking to turnover.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Director of Construction and Site Managers to monitor projects in line with contract requirements and metrics.
• Conduct safety audits and promote a safe site culture among contractors.
• Identify and resolve issues impacting schedule, quality, or budget for assigned areas.
• Track and audit project files and drawings, ensuring latest revisions are used on site.
• Manage submittals, transmittals, and RFIs from vendors/contractors to support project schedules.
• Maintain timely delivery of project deliverables such as schedules, lien waivers, and work plans.
• Perform field productivity audits of manpower, equipment, cycle times, and units installed.

Skills

Project management

Reading drawings

Issue resolution

Field productivity auditing

Education

Bachelor's degree in civil or electrical engineering or construction management

Tools

Primavera

MS Project

Excel

Job description

The Construction Project Engineer will partner with the Project Managers, Site Managers, Director of Construction, and the Head of Construction serving as the central technical coordinator through the EPC project lifecycle through detailed engineering, procurement assistance, construction support, and commissioning. The Project Engineer will be assigned to one or more of the projects currently under contract. The Project Engineer acts as the primary technical bridge between discipline engineers, project management, procurement agents, field construction teams, and external vendors/clients.

Essential Responsibilities

1. The Project Engineer works continuously toward successful project completion by assisting the Director of Construction and the Site Managers in monitoring projects in a manner consistent with the intent of the contract requirements, specifications, and metrics appropriate to the project.
2. Executes safety audits and interact with contractors and subcontractors to ensure the site is working safely and a positive safety culture is implemented at the site.
3. Responsible for identifying and resolving issues which can impact the project’s schedule, quality, and budget for areas that have been assigned to the Project Engineer.
4. Actively tracks and audits project files and drawings to ensure that project teams maintain documents in an orderly fashion and are utilizing the latest revisions of documents on the project sites.
5. Manages submittals, transmittals, and requests for information (RFIs) from Vendors and Contractors and routing or answering in a timely manner to support the project schedules.
6. Manages submittals, transmittals, RFIs and schedules for accuracy and adherence to project requirements.
7. Responsible for follow up on submittals, transmittals, and RFIs for additional information and action items.
8. Tracks and owns project deliverables (such as schedule updates, lien waivers, and work plans) to ensure documents are submitted timely and accurately.
9. Perform field productivity audits tracking manpower, equipment, cycle times, and units installed.
10. Partners with the project teams in documenting issues that could impact EXUS’ interests.
11. Ability to read drawings (all disciplines), understand quality control requirements, and assess Project Schedules for risks and opportunities.
12. Support independent engineer documentation process/review of project documentation (does deep dive on everything from the job, tracks down missing documentation, answering questions, submitting to engineers, etc.)

Education and Experience Requirements

1. Bachelors in civil or electrical engineering, or construction management.
2. 3+ years of direct EPC or heavy industrial project execution experience.
3. Prior experience independently managing major equipment vendor packages, resolved field RFIs, and lead discipline integration on projects from groundbreaking to project turnover highly preferred.
4. Working knowledge of Word, Excel, Primavera, or MS Project.
5. Experience in drawing verification and interface clash resolution.