PROJECT ENGINEER

Encore Electric, Inc.; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 80,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision plans

Disability and life insurance

Employee-matched 401(k)

Paid time off (PTO)

Employee assistance program including,

Job summary

Encore Electric, Inc. is seeking a detail‑oriented project engineer/managerial support role in Denver, CO. You will assist the Project Manager with monthly cost-to-complete analysis and maintain clear lines of communication with internal and external teams.

Responsibilities include developing new standards, participating in meetings, managing change estimates, and ensuring timely submittals and document control. A related degree or Journeyman license with experience is preferred.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent required.
• Associate's or Bachelor's degree in a related field or Journeyman's License with 5 years of progressive experience preferred.
• Strong communication and project coordination abilities are essential.

Responsibilities

• Assist Project Manager with cost to complete on a monthly basis.
• Maintain open communication with all project team members and stakeholders.
• Help develop new Encore standards and participate in project engineer meetings.
• Assist with change estimates, labor cost codes, and project closeout documentation.
• Coordinate submittals, procurement of material, and timekeeping across the team.

Skills

Self-starter

Organization skills

Communication

Verbal and written communication

Problem-solving

Risk identification

Estimating resources

Timekeeping accuracy

Education

Associate's or Bachelor's degree in a related field

Journeyman's License with 5 years of progressive experience in electrical trade

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Compensation Range for this Role: $80,000 to $85,000 per year

General Responsibilities

• Assist Project Manager as necessary in performing cost to complete on a monthly basis
• Strong communications with the entire project team (Internal and External)
• Maintain open communication lines with all working relationships
• Follow up to ensure items for which the job is accountable are performed
• Earn and maintain customer's trust
• Uphold the core values of the organization
• Work well with others to accomplish the mission of the organization and the job
• Work with the project team to set up the job
• Work with the project team to build an information sheet and map to the job site

Specific Responsibilities

Leadership

• Constantly train the field engineers in the project engineer's role

Process Improvement

• Engage and help to develop new Encore standards and processes and hold others accountable to them
• Participate in Project Engineer meetings

Risk Management

• Assist Project Manager with change estimates
• Assist project team with labor cost codes for the project
• Work with Project Manager and Assistant Project Manager to write the commodity purchase order from the installation estimate
• Ensure all parties to the job (at all levels of the job) apply their time into the proper phase code for timekeeping

Customer Service

• Take responsibility for submittals
• Assist with submittal creation and procurement of material
• Make certain purchase orders and Subcontracts are written and that the project is current on change orders to the purchase orders
• Coordinate and maintain relationships with all project stakeholders
• Ensure proper maintenance of construction documents
• Actively engage in any required meetings
• Ensure the proper permit is obtained in the jurisdiction for the job location. Understand the permitting process and what the wiring methods are in a different jurisdiction
• Responsible for project closeout documentation
• Prior to completion, involves the service department so they know the job and are introduced to the owner to maintain the relationship
• Assist in closing out the job with vendors
• Other duties as may be assigned

Knowledge Of

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• The construction process from scheduling to manpower to the labor, materials, and equipment required for installation
• Constructability and the construction process
• Algebra and geometry
• Statistics
• Financial math

Skill In

• Acting as a self-starter
• Good organization skills
• Spatial orientation
• Identifying scope gaps in construction documents
• Customer management
• Listening
• Speaking intelligently
• Estimating resources needed to complete required tasks
• Adapting to new and changing requirements, environments, and/or information
• Managing people and processes
• Managing complex projects, breaking them down to their component levels
• Using communication software
• Effective written and oral communication sufficient to be able to elicit and communicate information and achieve understanding (Technical/Business writing)
• Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with customers, vendors, consultants, management, and employees
• Operating a computer
• Operate Microsoft office products
• Organizing work to accomplish tasks
• Reading and writing
• Prioritizing and reprioritizing to meet job needs
• Identifying and managing risk
• Problem-solving
• Tracking numbers and bits of data relevant to the work assignment

Ability To

• Retain and access critical information from memory
• Conceptualize and visualize the project for constructability means and methods
• Think on your feet
• Understand when to speak and when not to speak
• Be personally detached from ideas (no ego)
• See things from multiple perspectives
• Ability to coordinate effectively with all ENCORE Support Services

Requirements

• High School Diploma or equivalent is required.
• An associate's or bachelor's degree in a related field OR a Journeyman's License with five years of progressive experience in the electrical trade is preferred.

Benefits Of This Role

• Encore Electric provides excellent benefits for our employees, including: medical, dental, and vision plans, disability, and life insurance, employee-matched 401(k), paid time off (PTO), an employee assistance program that includes counseling, legal, and financial advice.
• Encore also provides a generous employee referral program, and access to technical, safety, personal finance, and leadership training through Encore University, Encore's in house training program.
• This position is eligible for cell phone allowances and the short-term incentive program.

Encore Electric, Inc. is an EOE, including disability/vets.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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