Senior Construction Project Engineer - Texas

Summary

The Sr Construction Project Engineer is a senior project-engineering leader responsible for overseeing project-engineering functions on major projects, multiple projects, or highly complex programs for Construction and Integrated Services (C&IS) across both the design and construction sides of integrated design-build delivery.

The role provides advanced technical and operational leadership, supports Project Executives and Project Managers, mentors Project Engineers, strengthens project controls and best practices, and helps teams deliver contractual, financial, schedule, quality, safety, commissioning, and closeout requirements.

The role is typically assigned to projects exceeding $25 million, including $100 million-plus projects, or highly complex programs.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead project-engineering operations for major or multiple projects and align technical, administrative, contract, cost, schedule, quality, safety, commissioning, and closeout activities with project objectives.
• Partner with Project Executives, Project Managers, Superintendents, design leaders, quality leaders, and project-controls personnel on project startup, execution planning, risk management, subcontracting, procurement, and closeout strategies.
• Provide advanced technical guidance on construction methods, sequencing, building systems, constructability, design coordination, field conditions, commissioning, and complex engineering or construction challenges.
• Lead complex submittal, request-for-information, change, document-control, as-built, and technical-issue resolution processes and coordinate required Owner, Architect or Engineer of Record (AOR/EOR), and authority approvals.
• Support development and analysis of project budgets, forecasts, cash flow, cost and production performance, schedule baselines and updates, change management, and recovery strategies.
• Identify and mitigate contractual, technical, financial, procurement, schedule, safety, and quality risks; support negotiations, issue resolution, claims avoidance, and complete contemporaneous documentation.
• Lead constructability reviews, value-engineering activities, technical portions of subcontractor implementation reviews, and coordination among owners, architects, engineers, trade partners, and suppliers.
• Lead project-engineering support for permits, environmental approvals, inspections and testing, quality records, as-builts, commissioning, turnover, Owner acceptance, and Quality Data Package completion.
• Mentor Construction Project Engineers I, II, and III; delegate and review assigned work based on capability; assist with onboarding, training, recruiting input, and career-development discussions without implying direct supervisory authority unless separately assigned.
• Serve as a technical and operational resource for project teams, develop and implement project-engineering controls and best practices, and support company-wide process improvement.
• Exercise delegated project-engineering authority and provide recommendations to project leadership; escalate unresolved final design approvals, unexecuted material contract or financial commitments, missing Owner commitments, schedule change authority, and safety or quality exceptions to the authorized role.
• Travel or relocate for project assignments when required and perform other related project-engineering duties as assigned.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

• Required: Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, or a related field PLUS eight years of progressively responsible construction project-engineering experience; alternatively, thirteen years of relevant construction experience may be substituted for the degree and target-level experience.
• Required: Minimum of 8 years' experience with construction management, contracts, design-build delivery, project controls, estimating, cost, scheduling, constructability, commissioning, quality, safety, and closeout, with proficiency in Microsoft Office and Procore or a comparable platform.
• Required: Minimum of 8 years' experience with technical leadership, mentoring, negotiation, relationship management, problem solving, and communication with clients, designers, field teams, and trade partners.
• Preferred: OSHA 30-hour Construction Outreach course completion card, or verified equivalent, held by the start date. OSHA student cards do not expire; maintain proof and complete required employer, project, or jurisdictional refresher training.
• Preferred: Current U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Construction Quality Management (CQM) for Contractors certificate, or BRPH-approved equivalent, held by the start date and renewed before its five-year expiration.
• Preferred: Experience on large commercial, industrial, aviation, healthcare, federal, mission-critical, or other complex projects and experience with TAKT or comparable production-planning methods.
• Required: Willingness to travel, accept temporary duty assignments, or relocate when required by project demands.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to navigate and move around the construction site, which may involve walking, climbing ladders and scaffolding, and standing for extended periods on uneven surfaces.
• Ability to lift to 50 pounds.
• Ability to handle tools, equipment, and perform tasks that require coordination and manual skills.
• Manual dexterity, hearing, mental acuity, typing, reaching, repetitive motion, speaking, talking, and visual acuity.
• Ability to operate a motor vehicle.
• Ability to stand and sit for periods longer than 30 minutes but not to exceed two hours consecutively.
• Ability to print and draw letters, numbers, words, characters, and symbols that are legible and understood by others.
• Ability to learn complex tasks and remember how to complete tasks without assistance once trained.
• Ability to control behavior when encountering stressful situations or short deadlines and to maintain a high level of concentration.
• Quick thinking and decision-making ability to address issues and challenges that may arise during construction.
• Ability to work in various weather conditions and handle the physical demands of supervising a construction project.
• Strict adherence to safety protocols and the ability to enforce safety standards on the construction site.
• Adherence to personal protective equipment (PPE) requirements when on the construction site, such as hard hats, safety vests, and steel-toed boots.

Additional information

This job description may be changed to include new responsibilities and tasks or change existing ones as management deems necessary.

EOE, including Disability/Vets