Project Engineer

Christman Company; Livonia (MI); On-site; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Christman Constructors, Inc. is seeking a Project Engineer to join our Midwest-based team and help deliver civil and concrete construction projects. You will coordinate drawings, submittals, material orders, and field support to keep projects on schedule and within budget.

The role emphasizes safety, collaboration with project teams, and development of construction knowledge, with opportunities to participate in planning, estimates, and subcontractor coordination.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in civil engineering, construction management, or other relevant course work.
• Basic computer knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Or equivalent combination of the above education, training, and experience.

Responsibilities

• Ensures safety goals are achieved and identifies safe work practices.
• Owns project engineering tasks including shop drawing review, submittals, scheduling, and material coordination.
• Supports estimating, subcontractor scopes, and pricing activities.
• Assists with project planning, means/methods, schedules and coordination.
• Supports field management, including site coordination and day-to-day execution.
• Assists with subcontractor buyout, commitments and scope execution.
• Estimates and documents changes, tracks owner contract changes.
• Manages project documentation such as RFIs, submittals, safety forms, logs, and tickets.
• Develops look-ahead schedules and supports strategic planning initiatives.

Skills

Project coordination

Civil/Construction drafting

Education

Bachelor's degree in civil engineering or construction management

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Outlook

Job description

Christman Constructors, Inc.

Job Description:

Build More with Your Career at Christman Constructors, Inc.

With projects throughout the Midwest, Christman Constructors, Inc. (CCI) is a great place to begin, continue or grow your career. We're searching for the next generation of innovative minds who want to shape the world and live to build. CCI is looking for Project Engineers!

What You Will Do:

• Ensures that safety goals are achieved for responsible projects and identify safe work practices and areas for improvement.
• Holds overall responsibility for project engineering including shop drawing and submittal review/coordination, ordering material, sequencing material, providing solutions to layout/drawing discrepancies, supporting layout engineers/surveyors and developing construction technical knowledge. Supports concrete and civil estimating including quantity takeoffs, estimates, proposal development and subcontractor scopes/pricing.
• Assists with project planning including conceiving of civil and concrete means/methods, schedules and subcontractor coordination.
• Supports project superintendent and craft foreman with project execution, field management and day-to-day coordination.
• Assists Project and Assistant Project Manager with subcontractor/vendor buyout, commitments and scope execution.
• Estimates and quotes extra work and documents changes, ensures extras are loaded into Viewpoint/logs and track/act on Owner contract changes.
• Holds overall responsibility for completing and tracking project documentation including but not limited to RFI's, submittals, safety forms, drawing logs, material logs, equipment logs and time/material tickets.
• Works with project team to develop project and look-ahead schedules.
• Supports Civil and Concrete Strategic Planning initiatives, effectively implements and ensures compliance with strategic plan.

What You Will Bring to the Team:

Required experience, knowledge, and skills for this role include:

• Bachelor's degree in civil engineering, construction management, or other relevant course work.
• Basic computer knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

• Or equivalent combination of the above education, training, and experience.

Preferred experience, knowledge, and skills for this role include:

• One (1) or more years of work experience in construction or a related job field.

The Christman family of companies is an Affiritive Action/Equal Opportunity Employer that is committed to diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or disability status. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.As part of our company policy, this position requires successful completion of pre-employment screening, including but not limited to drug and background screening.