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Keen Project Solutions LLC. is a growing Design-Build, General Contractor and Construction Manager based out of Ankeny, IA working throughout the Midwest serving the Food, Ag, Manufacturing, and Industrial construction markets. Safety comes first in everything we do. We provide customers quality services and expertise.
Job Title: Construction Project Engineer
Location: Ankeny, Iowa
Full Time: Salary
Role Definition
The Construction Project Engineer supports the construction team of Preconstruction Manager, Project Manager, Superintendent, and Design Engineers. They will organize the construction project from start to finish. This role works closely with vendors and subcontractors to make sure the construction project proceeds safely, accurately, and smoothly while on time and budget.
Protect People:
- Inspect all work to assure compliance with plans and specifications.
- Participate in job site safety including safety meetings, walks, and other related tasks like ongoing training.
- Monitor and track project quality control metrics and activities on a regular basis, provide timely and accurate quality reports, and raise issues to management team.
Build Relationships:
- Arrange all preliminary, ongoing, and final construction schedules along with pre-construction meetings with internal team, architect, engineer, subcontractors, vendors, suppliers, and field staff.
- Maintain Project Directory including architects, engineers, consultants, subcontractors, vendors, suppliers, and internal team members, and help build and keep their relationship.
- Build positive relationships, identify areas of project risks, and advise the Project Manager and Superintendent while investigating solutions.
- Act as the project liaison between all Office/Field Engineers personnel to ensure continuity of work.
Focus on End Goals:
- Arrange all preliminary, ongoing, and final construction schedules along with pre-construction meetings with internal team, architect, engineer, subcontractors, vendors, suppliers, and field staff.
- Maintain Project Directory including architects, engineers, consultants, subcontractors, vendors, suppliers, and internal team members, and help build and keep their relationship.
- Build positive relationships, identify areas of project risks, and advise the Project Manager and Superintendent while investigating solutions.
- Act as the project liaison between all Office/Field Engineers personnel to ensure continuity of work.
- Coordinate with Office/Field Engineers regarding progress photos and documents needed to support construction progress meetings and reports.
- Report construction progress, cost, and schedule status, with team through weekly meetings.
- Assess construction drawings and ensure compliance with design intent while monitoring all phases of construction and performing quality control.
- Build and maintain an organized project file system, including contract documents, drawings and specifications, meeting minutes, bids, pricing, requests for information, change orders, and any other important project documentation.
- Review engineered drawings to ensure that all specifications and regulations are being followed.
- Prepare preliminary and final construction schedule, schedule pre-construction meetings with owner, architect, engineers, subcontractors, field staff, and conduct job-site visits.
Drive Innovation:
- Solicit and review material, equipment, subcontractor, and vendor bids.
- Integrate new technology or environmentally friendly practices into existing processes.
- Manage requests for information, submittal review and distribution, quality control documentation, and close-out documentation management processes.
- Expedite job close-out procedures including the development of as-built drawings, operation manuals, warranties, guarantees, service visits, punch list, sales tax reports, retainage releases, final acceptance, and final payment.
- Provide basic support for all other departments as needed, along with other assigned duties.
Education & Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in a related science field such as Industrial, Manufacturing, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering and Construction Management.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience.
- Certification or completion in Professional Engineer License (P.Eng), Certified Professional Engineer (PE), Fundamentals of Engineering (FE), Engineer in Training (EIT), Principles and Practice of Engineering (PE), and/or Lean Qualifications or willing to obtain.
- Working knowledge of basic computer programs in a Windows Operating System, Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Microsoft Office), Outlook, and on-line collaboration tools. Proficient in Autodesk/Plant Design Suite products like and Revit and AutoCAD is desired, with knowledge of Inventor, Navisworks, BlueBeam Revu etc., beneficial.
- Travel is required depending if located in the office or the field. Working from the office requires: 33% Travel. Working from the field requires: 80% travel.
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https://keenprojectsolutions.com/careers/