Land Development Project Engineer

StyleCraft Homes; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Income protection insurance

Home purchase discounts

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

StyleCraft Homes is seeking a Land Development Project Engineer to support residential real estate development from an office. You will coordinate design documents, manage budgets, and assist with permits and approvals, while guiding utilities, easements, plats, and surety processes.

You will collaborate with Community Builders and vendors to ensure successful project outcomes. The role emphasizes coordination across design teams, cost control, and regulatory permit compliance, with a focus on

Qualifications

• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills.
• Adept at collaborating with others to find solutions by asking questions and researching options in ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Design and coordinate engineers, architects and consultants in civil, landscape, and amenity plans, and manage design documents.
• Develop and maintain project schedules and assist with proforma and budgets.
• Coordinate with utilities and easements; facilitate permits and approvals with municipalities.
• Coordinate surveyors for plats and manage plat-related bonds, fees, and recordings.
• Maintain surety tracking and process approvals for budgets and costs.
• Track environmental permit compliance and SWPPP documentation.
• Coordinate with lot purchasers’ field representatives and support community builders in inspections.
• Collaborate with HOA management and Community builders on appearance and association matters.

Skills

Communication

Interpersonal

Organizational

Relationship building

Collaboration

Education

High school diploma

Civil Engineering degree

Tools

MS Excel

Microsoft Project

Job description

StyleCraft is a locally owned family of companies with the mission to Create Communities that Inspire People to Live Up. We are looking for an enthusiastic Land Development Project Engineerto join our team.

The Land Development Project Engineeris responsible for primarily office-based tasks supporting residential real estate development including, but not limited to, design & permit coordination, estimating, bid coordination, vendor relations & contract management, and project budget oversite, while providing technical support to field-based Community Builders and vendors.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and Operational Support
  • Coordinate engineers, architects and other consultants in creation of design documents including civil plans, amenity plans, landscape & irrigation plans
  • Expedites approvals and permit issuance for those plans by controlling municipalities and agencies.
  • Develop and maintain project schedules
  • Collaborate with Community Builder(s)
• Cost Control & Scheduling
  • Assists with proforma creation
  • Creates and maintains project budgets
  • Manages quarterly cost-to-complete updates
• Utility Design, Agreements & Easements
  • Initiates private utility design for new power, gas, communications and site lighting
  • Mitigates design conflicts
  • Facilitates timely creation/execution of utility and development agreements and related municipal and private easements
• Platting
  • Coordinates surveyors creation of plats
  • Facilitate plat related bonds, fee payments and recordings
• Surety Management
  • Maintain surety tracking, obtain estimates, process requests and obtain necessary approvals
• SWPPP & Environmental Permit Compliance
  • Maintain detailed permit files and track reporting/renewal requirements for each project
• Builder & Client Relations
  • Coordinate with lot purchasers field representatives
  • Supports Community Builder in lot specific inspections, resolves deficiencies
  • Supports Community Builder in maintaining detailed lot inspection records
• HOA and Condo Association Interaction
  • Collaborates with HOA management company and Community builder concerning community appearance, upkeep, and association matters stemming from Operations

Required Education and Experience:

• High school diploma.
• Dirty boots experience in commercial construction, site development or related field.
• Adept at collaborating with others to find solutions by asking questions and researching options in ambiguity.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills.
• Strong relationship building skills.
• Proficiency in MS Excel and Project

Preferred Skills:

• Prior experience in contract administration.
• Familiarity with title work, easements and land records.
• Prior experience reading civil and architectural plans.

Highly qualified candidates will have a degree in Civil Engineering and experience navigating municipal approval challenges.

Benefits:

• comprehensive medical/dental/vision/prescription insurance
• 401(k) with a company match
• income protection insurance
• home purchase discounts
• tuition reimbursementprofessional development
• and much more!