Electrical Project Engineer (35448)

CEC FACILITIES LLC; Catoosa (OK); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

CEC Companies in Catoosa, OK is seeking a Finance-focused professional to support monthly project financials, cost tracking, forecasting, and reporting. You will work with project teams and finance to optimize labor costs, purchasing, and budgeting for multi-million-dollar scopes.

The role offers exposure to construction accounting principles and real-time data-driven decision making in a dynamic field environment. Travel may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required with relevant field knowledge.
• Strong analytical aptitude and ability to work with project financials.
• Electrical industry experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Project Teams and Finance on monthly project financials including cost tracking and forecasting.
• Maintain real-time cost tracking systems and provide reliable data for decisions.
• Drive timely project reporting to leadership and stakeholders.
• Perform workforce and labor analytics to optimize staffing and labor costs.
• Support purchasing, procurement, subcontract management, and material buyout processes.
• Contribute to planning, scheduling projections, and budgeting for multi-million-dollar scopes.
• Bridge field teams and corporate finance translating on-the-ground realities into outcomes.
• Gain exposure to job-costing, percentage-of-completion reporting, and quarterly financial reporting.

Skills

Excel skills

Clear communicator

Detail-oriented

Safety leadership

Driver's license

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Analytics, Construction Management, Engineering, or related field

Job description

Job Details: Job Location: Catoosa, OK 74105, Position Type: Full Time, Travel Percentage: Road Warrior, Job Category: Finance, Position Summary

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Project Teams and Finance Team on monthly project financials: cost tracking, variance analysis, forecasting, and accurate month-end close processes.
• Maintain robust, real-time cost tracking systems and deliver reliable data that informs critical project decisions.
• Drive precise, timely project reporting to leadership and internal stakeholders.
• Perform workforce and labor analytics to optimize crew productivity, staffing plans, and labor cost control.
• Support purchasing, procurement, subcontract management, and material buyout processes.
• Contribute to planning, scheduling projections, and budgeting for multi-million-dollar scopes.
• Act as a liaison between field/project teams and corporate finance/accounting, translating on-the-ground realities into financial outcomes.
• Gain hands-on exposure to construction accounting principles, job-costing methods, percentage-of-completion reporting, and quarterly financial reporting practices.
• Develop a deep understanding of the field-generated data points (productivity metrics, material usage, labor hours, change orders, etc.) that ultimately drive project success and profitability.
• Performs other duties as needed to support projects, operations, and the department.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Analytics, Construction Management, Engineering, or related field.
• 0–3 years of relevant experience (internships and co-ops count); strong analytical aptitude required.
• Demonstrated ability to develop relationships and leadership potential.
• Prior experience in electrical a plus.
• Strong Computer skills.

Skills & Abilities

• Excel skills (pivot tables, complex formulas, data modeling).
• Clear communicator who can bridge field and office perspectives.
• Detail-oriented, proactive, and energized by a dynamic construction environment
• Demonstrated safety leader and true believer in safety.
• Current and valid driver’s license and clean driving record.

Work Environment & Physical Demands

This job may work inside or outside with possible exposure to extreme hot or cold temperatures and weather elements in restricted or confined spaces, and on slippery or uneven surfaces. This job may have exposure to working on ladders, scaffolds, aerial lifts, catwalks, and other exposures typical of heavy construction. This job also operates in an office setting. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, and filing cabinets.

• Must be able to traverse and inspect all areas of jobsite in all types of weather; this may include walking, climbing reaching, bending crawling, standing, or stretching.
• The employee must be able to regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds
• Move about on the feet regularly. Sit for extended periods of time.
• Requires the ability to sit and work at a computer for extended periods of time.
• May require travel.
• Exposure to characteristic construction site dangers.
• Talk and hear, ability to communicate with others both written and orally and by telephone.
• Possess good vision, normal or corrected. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision to discern color coded wires, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
• Possesses good hearing, normal or corrected.
• Must be able to wear personal protective equipment (hard hat, safety glasses, safety vest), as needed.
• Must be able to work 8 hours a day, 40 hours per week, and overtime as required and night shifts, as needed. Must be on-call to address delays, emergencies, bad weather, and other issues at the jobsite.
• Must be able to work in the presence of customers and their representatives with little or no interference or disruption to the customer while maintaining a professional and courteous image.

CEC Companies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to attracting and retaining the best-qualified individuals, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.