Collaborative Delivery Preconstruction Engineer

Collaborative Delivery Preconstruction Engineer

Sanford, FL, USA

Posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM

Wharton-Smith, Inc. is currently seeking an experienced Collaborative Delivery Preconstruction Engineer to work at our headquarters in the Sanford, FL area.

Primary responsibilities:

• Works directly with the Preconstruction Services Manager and Operations Managers to manage all aspects from projects from award to GMP
• Management of project documents, correspondence, meeting agendas/minutes, and bidding process.
• Contribute to proposal and presentations as required
• Establish and maintain client relationships, leveraging those relationships to assist the Company in preparing for upcoming proposal s
• Ability to read drawings, geo-tech reports and specifications.
• Manage areas of identified project risk and work with the design team to generate solutions to eliminate or reduce risk to all parties
• Attend regular progress and milestone meetings with all stakeholders
• Review engineering deliverables and provide meaningful and well-organized feedback in a timely manner.
• Solicit Subcontractor/Supplier participation in bidding
• Provide owner/engineer with innovation solutions to maintain project budget and objectives.
• Understanding of preconstruction phase schedule and coordinate with operations to develop construction phase schedule. Experience with P6 is desired.
• Develop and write GMP bid packages
• Proficient in scope analysis, ability to estimate deficiencies as needed.
• Compile project bids to generate the project budget (GMP)
• Compliance with project funding requirements.
• Communicate with operations regularly to ensure project schedules meet the needs of the company and all promises made to the owner can be fulfilled.
• Projects ranging from 4 Million to 300 Million.
• Developing and maintaining long‑term beneficial relationships with key vendors and subcontractors.
• Participate in pre and post‑construction reviews.
• Assist Manager with maintaining preconstruction project financials including Wharton‑Smith costs, subcontract and vendor costs, engineering costs, and billings to the client to maintain healthy cash flow.

Technical skills:

• Regular travel, within geographic region, as required to meet the demands of the position including in‑person meetings with clients and engineers as well as travel to Wharton‑Smith’s corporate or regional offices.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Utilize all Wharton‑Smith tools to maintain a well‑organized and well‑documented project, including comprehensive meeting agendas and minutes.
• Provide weekly reporting on progress of all projects and provide early identification of potential issues or delays.
• Maintain a clear status on all project action items for all team members to access.
• Establish and maintain hard deadlines for deliverables.

Qualifications:

• 3 years Water/Wastewater construction or design experience.
• Understanding of funding compliance.
• Previous experience with Hard Bid or Collaborative Delivery Municipal Water/Wastewater Projects.
• Ability to understand construction terminology.
• Strong communication and organizational skills.
• Valid Driver's License and ability to commute to job sites.

Our recruiting process is centralized and is handled by our HR Department. If we are sent unsolicited resumes from recruiters, we will not pay any recruiting fees. Unsolicited resumes are any resumes sent to us by a recruiter who has not been pre‑approved by HR, has not signed our contract, and has not been requested by our HR Department to search for a specific position.