Entry Level Engineer

The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company

The Role

Overview

Assist PM/superintendent in managing construction projects, schedules, budgets, and site work

Key Responsibilities

  • cost estimating
  • scheduling
  • design review
  • quality control
  • documentation
  • stakeholder coordination

Tasks

-Participating in meetings to coordinate work and manage labor concerns. -Identifying and resolving field issues and change orders. -Documenting the technical, financial and personnel aspects of each project. -Tracking project phase completion against milestones. -Documenting each phase of the project. -Resolving and clarifying design issues. -Managing estimating and bidding processes and tracking costs to manage project budget. -Implementing project schedules including each task associated with project completion. -Providing field support to construction superintendents to help ensure contract compliance, quality control and maintenance of the site. -Ensuring work is completed in accordance with quality standards and contract specifications. -Writing contracts and purchase orders using company boilerplate language to document all ordered work, schedules, projected costs, change orders and technical specifications. -Reviewing project drawings, specifications, submittals and change orders. -Reviewing each trade’s work progress with respect to each project phase. -Setting expectations for managing a safe work site. -Coordinating work with project owner representatives, architects, engineers, inspectors, and site subcontractors and/or directing the work of all trades assigned to a construction work site.

The Company

About The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company

-Began with utility and road work at Walter Reed Hospital and has evolved into a national powerhouse. -Delivers both small interior renovations and massive, complex ventures. -Financially independent and bond-rated AAA. -Notable projects include NASA Langley HQ, Kennedy Space Center renovation, Stanford’s McMurtry Art & Architecture building, UVA Rotunda, and Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. -EXCELLS in construction management, design-build, integrated project delivery, and preconstruction services like budgeting, value engineering, scheduling, commissioning, and LEED coordination. -Current high-profile works span Under Armour’s mass-timber global HQ and a $5 billion silicon-carbide chip plant under the CHIPS Act.

Sector Specialisms

Commercial

Healthcare

Industrial and Energy

Infrastructure

Institutional

Residential

Federal/Military

Science and Technology