Project Engineer, Civil Engineering

Location: Wixom Michigan, 51740 Grand River Ave, Wixom, MI 48393, USA

Who we are: Build your career with Boldt. As a member of the Boldt team, you’ll collaborate with some of the most knowledgeable professionals in the construction industry. You’ll have the chance to learn new skills and seek greater responsibilities with a team that builds real value in the world around you. You’ll succeed in a workplace culture that recognizes, respects, and values differences.

Boldt’s focus on innovation, collaboration, and employee development provides an opportunity for all our employees to Build Boldly.

How your role fits into Boldt: In this position you will work on the assigned project sites and traveling nationwide as needed.

Responsibilities: As a Project Engineer for Boldt you are part of the project management team and will assist in obtaining, evaluating, and coordinating all information needed to construct our projects in accordance with the contract documents. Your role will verify safety, schedule, and quality compliance, collaborate with field operations, and deliver project information.

What you get to do:

• Safety:
  Ensure strict adherence to safety, ethics, and compliance requirements at all times. Assist in implementation of site safety program and ensure subcontractor compliance.
• People:
  Act as liaison with architects, subcontractors, consultants, suppliers, inspectors, other Boldt staff and owner’s representatives to resolve issues. Attend meetings with other contractors, client, or A/E representatives. Develop reports such as General Conditions Items, labor, safety, change order logs, quality control, status reports, punch lists, sketches, material requirement calculations.
• Quality:
  Develop comprehensive working knowledge of the contract documents. Conduct detailed construction document reviews, examine all documents for constructability and Built in Quality. Participate in preparation of studies, recommendations for materials and methods, cost estimates. Assist with submittals and shop drawings, assess conformance, resolve differences. Manage drawings and specifications, verify completed work aligns with codes, drawings, specifications.
• Schedule:
  
  Assist in scheduling and managing assigned subcontractor trade coordination meetings, look ahead planning meetings and submittal review meetings. Supply chain of materials for assigned scopes. Develop and maintain up-to-date production visuals and site logistics plans. Assist with production tracking process.
• Cost:
  Assist Project Managers in negotiating change orders, managing information on changes, preparing independent analysis, acquiring estimates from subcontractors, obtaining approval of architect and owner, resolving misalignments. Provide technical support for cost control. Assist with specific sections of the overall project budget as assigned.
• Risk:
  Prepare detailed contract items list. Develop trade scope of work documents for bid packages, major material and equipment purchases. Assist in developing scope of work and executing subcontracts and purchase orders. Participate in close‑out process and preparing final records. Participate in risk management including identification, analysis, response planning and monitoring/controls on a project.

What we expect from you:

• Four‑year engineering, construction management degree or equivalent combinations of technical training and related experience.
• Solid understanding of construction equipment and techniques, drawings, and specifications, building materials and required standards.
• Ability to assume responsibility, interact and communicate optimally with others.

Physical requirements and working conditions: The employee is occasionally required to position objects and operate tools, use computer keyboard, maneuver in confined spaces, remain in a stationary position and move to access people or machinery or work spaces, ascend/descend ladders or stairs, move up to 10‑25 lbs, travel frequently, perform work on‑site at construction sites. Work both inside/outside in heat/cold, wet/humid, dry/arid conditions, use PPE, exposure to loud noises, scents, overtime and weekends may be requested.

What we can offer…