M/E Engineer I — Entry Role in Advanced Facilities

JE Dunn Construction; Clarksville (TN); On-site; USD 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional Non-Union

Job summary

JE Dunn Construction’s Advanced Facilities Group focuses on Mission Critical, Advanced Industries, and Industrial & Manufacturing projects, offering entry‑level growth in M/E construction. You will learn to support safety, quality, budgeting, and bid activities across large data center and manufacturing projects.

The role develops M/E estimates, reads design documents, and coordinates with teams to meet project schedules.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, architectural engineering or related field (Required).
• In lieu of the above requirements, equivalent relevant experience will be considered.
• 0-2 years construction experience and/or summer internship/co‑op experience in construction (Preferred).

Responsibilities

• Learns and actively participates in all aspects of the company’s safety and quality plans and culture by demonstrating commitment to an injury‑free environment through individual actions and mentoring others.
• Completes entry level and routine mechanical, electrical and field construction activities.
• Learns how to develop budgetary M/E estimates, based upon program and schematic design information using automated M/E estimating system.
• Assists in the review of mechanical and electrical options as part of the preconstruction process and completes systems analysis for select projects.
• Learns to develop the mechanical and electrical scopes of work used to coordinate during the bid process.
• Assists in the completion of bid analysis and provides input during the subcontractor selection process.
• Assists in developing sequencing requirements of various systems and providing solutions to meet the schedule requirements.
• Gains knowledge of design documents in order to identify potential quality problems to assist in developing constructability review reports.
• Learns to perform job inspections to ensure specifications and expectations are met and work is completed in a quality and timely manner.
• Learns and assists with the shop drawing/submittal process to comply with the contract documents.
• Assists with the commissioning process including developing pre‑functional checklists, functional testing procedures and actual functional testing.

Skills

Communication skills

MS Office proficiency

Plan reading

Team collaboration

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, architectural engineering or related field

Equivalent relevant experience considered

Tools

M/E estimating system

JE Dunn M/E tools & software

Job description

JE Dunn Construction’s Advanced Facilities Group focuses on Mission Critical, Advanced Industries, and Industrial & Manufacturing projects, offering entry‑level growth in M/E construction. You will learn to support safety, quality, budgeting, and bid activities across large data center and manufacturing projects.

The role develops M/E estimates, reads design documents, and coordinates with teams to meet project schedules.