Project Engineer, Civil Engineering

Kraus-Anderson offers an opportunity to make an immediate impact with an industry leader!

Core Purpose: Building enduring relationships and strong communities

Core Values:

• Integrity - Do the right thing...always be respectful, honest and fair
• Commitment - Take ownership, work hard, and keep promises
• Teamwork - Collaborate to foster trust and success for all
• Value People - Support each other in a safe, positive environment where people are recognized and appreciated for their contributions

Our Company

For more than a century, Kraus-Anderson has been transforming the American landscape.

Founded in 1897 and privately owned and managed by the Engelsma family for more than 70 years, KA is consistently ranked by Engineering News Record among the top 50 general contractors in the United States. Our base of operations in Minnesota is supplemented with regional offices, extending our capabilities coast to coast.

We take a highly collaborative approach to our work. We work closely with owners, architects and the entire planning team well before ground is broken; providing cost analyses, scheduling information, and value engineering services to ensure that our client can make informed decisions leading to a timely finish of the highest quality and the best value.

Summary
This position will assist the Project Manager or Superintendent to plan, direct, and coordinate activities of designated projects to ensure that goals or objectives of project are accomplished within prescribed time frame and funding parameters. The Project Engineer may be assigned their own projects to manage in a learning environment.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Safety:

• Assures all personnel are familiar with and adhere to safety regulations and KA Safety Policy
• Ensures safety-related documentation is complete, detailed, and accurate; this includes site audits, toolbox talks, and jobsite orientations.
• Ensures that job trailers or Superintendent's trucks have copies of personnel policies and Job Safety Data Sheets/MSDS.
• Assist the Safety Department in an effort to enforce the corporate safety and health policies and procedures
• Facilitates and maintains Emergency Management Plan and completes work in accordance with the Kraus-Anderson (KA) Project Managers' Manual.

Quality:

• Participates/assists in jobsite Quality Assurance/Qualify Management System (QMS), including preconstruction meetings with subcontractors prior to starting work; log items for future QMS pre-con meetings, provides ongoing review of products, test results and applications onsite to ensure they meet specifications.
• Prepares or reviews reports on progress, materials used and costs, and adjusts work schedules as indicated by reports.
• Conducts regular project reviews and maintain records of project progress.
• Confers with subcontractors engaged in planning and executing work procedures, interpreting specifications, and coordinating various phases of construction to prevent delays and assure on-time delivery.
• Prepares project reports and generates progress photos for management, clients or others and prepares meeting minutes for foreman meetings.

Financial:

• Manage and collaborates with PM to effectively manage General Conditions budget and understands overall budget.
• Understands and manages yard and equipment cost.

Preconstruction/ Construction:

• Studies specifications and drawings to plan procedures for construction on basis of start and completion times and staffing requirements for each phase of construction.
• Studies production schedules and estimates worker hour requirements for completion of job assignment.
• Assists Superintendents or Project Managers with short interval schedules.
• Provides daily, weekly and monthly schedule support to project team to preserve the Contract and Project Schedule.
• Assures procured tools and materials to be delivered at specified times to conform to work schedules.
• Assists in coordination of buildings inspections, reviews progress onsite to ensure subcontractors are keeping up with individual inspections and assists in facilitation of Owner/third party inspections.
• Coordinates project activities with activities of governmental regulatory or other governmental agencies.
• Generates, tracks, submits and distributes Requests for Information (RFIs) to appropriate subcontractors, maintains/updates contract documents onsite and organizes files onsite.
• Conducts reviews, logs, tracks and organizes submittals; compares submittals versus specifications prior to submission.
• Completes materials "take-offs", establishes cost estimates, develops and tracks material procurement schedule.
• Reviews project proposals, drawings, and plans to determine timeframe, funding limitations, procedures for accomplishing project, staffing requirements and allotment of available resources to various phases of project.
• Provides daily, weekly and monthly schedule support to project team to preserve the Contract and Project Schedule.
• Confers with project staff to outline work plans, assign duties, responsibilities and…