Project Engineer

Cumming Group; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 84,000 - 113,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Paid time off

Job summary

Cumming Group is hiring a Project Engineer in Long Beach, CA to support education sector projects. You will coordinate design, bid processes, and field activities, ensuring compliance with plans, specs, and client expectations.

You’ll also manage documentation, meetings, and close-out tasks across preconstruction to final delivery. The role requires 5+ years in construction project management, a relevant bachelor’s degree, and proficiency with Bluebeam.

Qualifications

• Experience with design & bid formulation and project phase scheduling.
• Experience with the Addenda and Bid process.
• Ability to facilitate site meetings and prepare meeting minutes.
• Ability to communicate with various stakeholders, internal and external to the company.
• Demonstrate an understanding of how project documentation impacts the project flow.
• Ability to read blueprints.
• Utilize effective written and oral communication skills.
• Understand how your role contributes to the organization's goals.
• Deliver quality work product by role modeling organizational core values.
• Hold self accountable to individual and team goals.
• Consistently communicate and collaborate with team members and clients.
• Build relationships with peers, leaders, and clients.

Responsibilities

• Provide design, technical, engineering, and administrative support during preconstruction, construction, and closeout phases.
• Coordinate with contractors, architects, engineers, inspectors, consultants and school staff.
• Manage project documents, minutes, RFIs, submittals, change orders, ASIs, schedules.
• Review and enforce contracts and approved changes.
• Facilitate design/construction meetings and field checks for compliance with specs and standards.
• Prepare scope of work and procurement documents for consultants and contractors.
• Close out projects with as-builts, punch lists, archiving, and DSAs.

Skills

Design coordination

Contract administration

Reading blueprints

Communication

Project documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Architecture, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Bluebeam

Job description

Position Title: Project Engineer

Location: Long Beach, CA

Req Id: JR103807

Time Type: Full time

At Cumming Group, you will work on some of the world's most exciting projects in a dynamic environment where your success is measured by the impact you make. We are one of the fastest-growing project and cost management consultancies in the United States, as reflected in our top 15 rankings in ENR. With over 70 offices globally, an extremely diverse project portfolio, and double-digit year-over-year revenue growth, the opportunities to make your mark are limitless!

We are currently hiring an experienced Project Engineer located in Long Beach, CA. This opportunity will have you working within our Education project sector. The Education team is a prime consultant to multiple school districts in the country and provides services to K-12 as well as higher education institutions nationally. You will be teaming with project, program, and client leadership to provide premier educational facilities for our nation’s youth and adults seeking to better themselves through learning.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Provide design, technical, engineering, and administrative support to the project team during the preconstruction, construction, and closeout phases of the project.
• Coordinates with contractors, architects, engineers, inspectors, consultants and school staff.
• Responsible for project document control, circulating, receiving, tracking, and maintaining organized document files such as meeting minutes, RFIs, submittals, change orders, ASIs, schedules, etc.
• Responsible for management of review comments from project stakeholders.
• Participates in, and occasionally runs, design construction, or pe-bid meetings.
• Makes field checks on construction, demolition, rehabilitation, alteration addition or repair projects to determine compliance with job specifications, plans, and established school standards.
• Reads and interprets construction plans, specifications and shop drawings.
• Assists in preparing written materials including correspondence, reports, procedures, and guidelines.
• Supports development of daily/weekly/monthly project status reports and photos reports for project team.
• Reviews, estimates, negotiates, and processes construction change orders and construction field orders.
• Reviews and enforces construction and professional services contracts.
• Facilitates resolutions of construction and design issues.
• Confirms contractors maintenance of records prior to monthly progress payments to the Contractor.
• Prepares Scope of Work and procurement documents for solicitation of consultant and contractor services.
• Manages close-out of construction projects, including, but not limited to, punch-lists, as-builts, archiving, and DSA certification.
• Other job-related duties or projects as assigned.

Knowledge & Skills Required:

• Experience with design & bid formulation and project phase scheduling.
• Experience with the Addenda and Bid process.
• Ability to facilitate site meetings and prepare meeting minutes.
• Ability to communicate with various stakeholders, internal and external to the company.
• Demonstrate an understanding of how project documentation impacts the project flow.
• Ability to read blueprints.
• Utilize effective written and oral communication skills.
• Understand how your role contributes to the organization's goals.
• Deliver quality work product by role modeling organizational core values.
• Hold self accountable to individual and team goals.
• Consistently communicate and collaborate with team members and clients.
• Build relationships with peers, leaders, and clients.

Preferred Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Architecture, Engineering, or related field.
• A minimum of five (5) years of experience in construction project management. Prior experience supporting public works and/or educational facility projects is required.
• Experience with Design-Build and/or Progressive Design-Build project delivery methods.
• Experience working on large construction projects ($50M+) preferred.
• Proficient with Bluebeam.

Cumming Group is committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunity in its personnel policies and practices. It is Cumming Group’s policy to recruit, hire, train and promote Team Members and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, sex, marital status, registered domestic partner status, genetic information, sexual preference, sexual orientation, gender (including gender expression and gender identity), pregnancy (including childbirth or related medical conditions, including breastfeeding), military service, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical disability, mental disability, veteran status or any other protected classification under federal, state, or local law. All such decisions are based on (1) individual merit, qualifications, and competence as they relate to the particular position, and (2) promotion of the principle of equal employment opportunity.

All other terms and conditions of employment, such as compensation, benefits, transfers, layoff, return from layoff, training, education, and social and recreational programs, are administered without regard to the characteristics described above. To this end, Cumming Group complies with all provisions of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as amended, all of the rules, regulations and relevant orders of the Secretary of Labor, and all similar state and local laws.

About Us:

At Cumming Group, we are passionate about helping our clients execute large-scale, complex projects on-time and within budget. Our project and cost-management services are specifically tailored to each client’s needs and add meaningful value at every step of a project’s development.

Drawing on deep expertise in the communities and sectors we serve, we anticipate and solve problems, deliver solutions, and drive results. Since opening our doors in 1996, Cumming Group has grown to 50+ offices globally, and is now home to more than 3,000+ team members – including many of the brightest minds in the industry.

Learn more about what a great organization we are here.

Cumming Group is committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunity in its personnel policies and practices. It is Cumming Group’s policy to recruit, hire, train and promote Team Members and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, sex, marital status, registered domestic partner status, genetic information, sexual preference, sexual orientation, gender (including gender expression and gender identity), pregnancy (including childbirth or related medical conditions, including breastfeeding), military service, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical disability, mental disability, veteran status or any other protected classification under federal, state, or local law. All such decisions are based on (1) individual merit, qualifications, and competence as they relate to the particular position, and (2) promotion of the principle of equal employment opportunity.

All other terms and conditions of employment, such as compensation, benefits, transfers, layoff, return from layoff, training, education, and social and recreational programs, are administered without regard to the characteristics described above. To this end, Cumming Group complies with all provisions of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as amended, all of the rules, regulations and relevant orders of the Secretary of Labor, and all similar state and local laws.

Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.

PI287311519

The salary range for this full-time role is $84,400.00-$112,533.35 per year. Ranges are determined based on the position, geography, client and industry experience and level, and represent a good faith effort to provide a fair and equitable salary. This range reflects base salary only, and not the total compensation package. Cumming Group reserves the right to pay more or less than the posted range, depending on a candidate’s experience, skills, and qualifications, including client requirements.

In addition to base salary, Cumming Group offers a comprehensive benefits package including:

• Medical
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• 401(k)
• 401(k) Matching
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Holidays
• Short and long-term disability
• Employee Assistance Program