Job Posting Title Senior MEP Engineer

FlatironDragados; Virginia Beach, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Compensation package

401(k)/RRSP

Medical/dental/vision

Job summary

FlatironDragados is seeking a Senior MEP Engineer in Virginia Beach to drive financial accuracy and project success on a landmark bridge-tunnel expansion. You will track costs, monitor resources, and ensure the project stays on budget while coordinating with field teams and subcontractors.

The role emphasizes reviewing drawings and data, updating schedules, and identifying risks to mitigate delays and costs. This on-site position sits at a critical infrastructure project on the East Coast.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• 5+ years construction engineering and MEP experience.
• Experience in cost accounting and resource monitoring.
• Knowledge of design-build or alternative build techniques.
• Able to delegate and guide engineering team to progress production.
• Advanced knowledge of contract specifications and QA practices.
• Identify budget and project costs and mitigate delays.
• Knowledge of financial reporting, quantity tracking and cost coding.

Responsibilities

• Meet with engineering and field crews to review production schedule and resources.
• Review shop drawings, design specifications, material requirements and project data.
• Provide technical input for project work plans and scheduling.
• Identify risk elements that could impact budget or schedule.
• Evaluate daily production, schedule and budget projections.
• Update project schedule weekly for owner and management reporting.
• Prepare and manage a three-week work plan with mitigation solutions.
• Initiate and manage all RFIs.
• Remit accurate project quantities using cost coding for reporting.
• Coordinate subcontractor work methods, schedule and crews as needed.

Skills

Cost accounting

Resource monitoring

MEP experience

Construction scheduling

Budget management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in a related field

Job description

Overview

Ready to drive financial accuracy and project success?

As a Senior MEP Engineer, you will track and analyze cost data, ensuring our projects stay on budget. Your expertise in resource monitoring and control, combined with your construction knowledge, will keep our projects running smoothly and efficiently.

Join our landmark infrastructure project that is expanding one of the East Coast’s most iconic and vital transportation corridors, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge‑Tunnel. This 17.6‑mile bridge‑tunnel complex, recognized as an engineering marvel of the modern world, is undergoing a major design‑build expansion with the construction of the Parallel Thimble Shoal Tunnel to enhance capacity, safety, and reliability for travelers between Virginia Beach and the Eastern Shore.

The new bored tunnel (a first‑of‑its‑kind in the Mid‑Atlantic) will carry southbound traffic while the existing tunnel will carry northbound traffic, significantly improving traffic flow and operational redundancy. This project offers an exceptional opportunity to work on challenging marine construction, deep foundation, and tunnel structures that will have a lasting impact on regional mobility and commerce.

What you will be doing

• Meet with engineering and field crews to review production schedule and confirm all materials, equipment and resources.
• Review all shop drawings, design specifications, material requirements and project data.
• Provides technical input for project work plan and scheduling.
• Identify risk elements of production, materials, equipment or process that could negatively impact the budget or schedule.
• Evaluate daily production, schedule and budget projections to accurately track project performance.
• Update project schedule weekly for owner and management reporting.
• Prepare and manage a three-week work plan. Notifies engineering and project management of any significant schedule changes and develops solutions to mitigate delays and cost.
• Initiate and manage all Requests for Information (RFIs).
• Remit accurate project quantities using assigned project cost coding to ensure project financials are accurately reported.
• Manage invoicing with accounting team regarding materials, equipment and subcontractor needs.
• Review certificates and permits needed to perform work.
• Review required Job Hazard Analysis (JHAs) to ensure a safe and compliance work environment for all construction personnel.
• Coordinates subcontractor work methods, schedule and crews as needed.

What we are looking for

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field.
• 5+ years construction engineering and MEP experience.
• Experience in resource monitoring techniques (i.e. cost accounting, basic estimating) and construction technology, process systems and/or structures preferred.
• Specialized, technical knowledge of design build or other alternative build techniques.
• Able to delegate and assign work to engineering team to progress the project production forward.
• Advanced knowledge of contract specifications and quality assurance practices.
• Able to identify budget and project costs and recommend options to mitigate project delays.
• Knowledge of financial reporting methods, quantity tracking methods and cost coding.
• Knowledge of construction scheduling and production time management preferred.

Why work for us

Some of the benefits you may be eligible for as an employee are:

• Comprehensive compensation package and paid time off program
• Industry leading 401(k)/RRSP
• Medical/Extended Health Care, Dental, Vision and/or Provincial Medical
• Wellness benefits & Employee Assistance Program
• Tuition Reimbursement Program

We are an EEO/ADA/Veterans employer.

Salary Min

USD $115,000.00/Yr.

Salary Max

USD $130,000.00/Yr.