Project Engineer; Entry Level

Salary: $75,000-$80,000

Annual salary range noted above based on experience and qualifications. Employees in this role are eligible for a discretionary annual bonus, dependent on both individual performance and company financial results.

At our core, we are builders — of communities, relationships, dreams, and careers. If you asked us to describe Skender, we’d say we’re ambitious, humble, and compassionate. We’re focused on building lasting partnerships with the right people. Our success starts and ends with our people. That’s why we seek out dynamic, high-energy teammates who are eager to learn, ready to take ownership of their careers, and excited to have fun along the way.

We are currently seeking entry level Project Engineers to join our talented group of employees upon graduation in the Summer of 2027.

About 70 years ago, Skender got its start in the basement of our founder’s family home. Now, Skender has two locations, our Chicago headquarters and our Indianapolis office, with nearly 400 employees helping us raise the bar year after year.

From humble beginnings to now, Skender has become one of the nation’s top 100 construction firms building dream spaces for many of the world’s leading brands. In more recent history, we’ve won 30 best-place-to-work awards from three different organizations, each based on comprehensive workplace evaluations and employee input.

Our team is driven by three core values:

• Proactive
  :
  You take initiative, stay curious, and aren’t afraid to roll up your sleeves to get the job done.
• Refreshing
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  You celebrate team wins, show appreciation freely, and always give credit where it's earned.
• True Partner
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  You thrive on collaboration, ask thoughtful questions, and are fully present and engaged with your team.

If our values align with yours, this could be a great match. We love meeting new people, so we can’t wait to hear about you!

We’re looking for a Project Engineer who is ready to take their career to the next level. Do you enjoy creating, maintaining, and distributing project-related documentation? Great. Are you someone with a team-first attitude who will identify project gaps or inefficiencies and seek to improve them? Even better.

Our Project Engineers are pivotal players in our Operations team. You’ll be responsible for assisting in the administration, documentation and organization of the Operations Department as directed by the Project Manager.

• Examining contract documents for submittal requirements, checking for scope gaps and overlaps.
• Reviewing shop drawings for compliance with contract documents, accuracy, and coordination of interfacing materials.
• Preparing, maintaining, and distributing various document control entities. Examples include: submittals, RFIs, drawings/specifications, meeting minutes, punch list/closeout, and issue logs.
• Submitting shop drawings and samples of all pertinent materials and equipment to the architect or engineer, expediting approval, coordinating the distribution of shop drawings and accelerate delivery as necessary, to avoid project delays.
• Participating in the preparation of phase schedules and delivering weekly project schedule updates to the team.
• Identifying changes in the contract documents that may result in added cost or time of construction and ensure that proper documentation is provided to preserve a contract change.
• Assisting in scope development, subcontractor bid review and award.

We’d like you to have a four-year bachelor’s degree or equivalent combinations of technical training and 1-2 years’ experience in a construction-related field.

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