Project Engineer - Project Planning

About the Role

The Planning Project Engineer oversees and executes project planning and management across multiple disciplines. The role supports a Project Manager or Senior Project Engineer and is responsible for quantity collection, contract administration, scheduling, procurement, and reporting. It requires active interfacing with clients, engineering/design teams, subcontractors, vendors, and continuous strategic communication regarding project status. Key duties include managing field office staff, delivering contract‑required reports, creating quantity calculation formulas, and developing work plans and packages. The engineer oversees labor timesheets, average labor rate reporting, safety training, material procurement, and scheduling. Additional responsibilities involve material takeoffs, basic engineering calculations, subcontractor supervision, project record‑keeping, control monitoring, schedule maintenance, change order generation, budgeting, cash‑flow forecasting, and acting as the primary company representative when needed. • Oversee field office staff including engineers, document control, schedulers, procurement, and warehouse personnel. • Provide client with required contract reports (weekly, monthly, schedule). • Create quantity calculation formulas and develop work plans and work packages. • Manage labor timesheets and compile weekly average labor rate reports. • Train staff on Job Safety Analysis (JSA) completion. • Lead jobsite safety reviews, toolbox meetings, mass safety meetings, and safety training. • Order and schedule material deliveries; produce procurement status reports. • Perform material takeoffs from drawings, specifications, and contract documents. • Conduct basic engineering calculations and technical drafting to support field operations. • Direct field engineers to prepare data for submittals to customers, vendors, subcontractors, and agencies. • Manage creation and review of field‑issued purchase orders, subcontracts, and material buyout takeoffs. • Supervise subcontractor operations and provide field support. • Maintain project recordkeeping including daily reports, photographs, RFIs, submittals, transmittals, and memoranda. • Create and monitor project controls such as productivity tracking, equipment schedules, risk and opportunity logs. • Maintain master project schedule and generate change orders and as‑built data for review. • Drive planning process through weekly, 6‑week, 3‑week, and 1‑week schedules and manpower curves. • Assist Project Manager with accounting, job costs, and work‑in‑progress (WIP) updates. • Lead budgeting from estimate to standard phase codes and forecast cash flow. • Alert Project Manager to trends in labor, material, subcontractor, and equipment costs. • Act as primary company representative in the absence of the Project Manager. • Develop and prepare Schedule of Values and customer invoices. • Lead and mentor a crew of up to 100 personnel and field engineers. • Provide constructability and cost‑saving alternatives during design phase.

Key Responsibilities

• ▸material takeoffs
• ▸schedule management
• ▸procurement scheduling
• ▸quantity calculations
• ▸cost forecasting
• ▸project controls

What You Bring

Candidates must hold a bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, or a related field and possess at least five years of field engineering experience. Required knowledge includes MIC Health and Safety programs, project regulations, and the ability to provide constructability and cost‑saving alternatives during design. Strong work ethic, leadership, ethics, integrity, and a willingness to travel and relocate for extended periods are essential. The position demands up to 12‑hour shifts with physically intensive tasks, including lifting up to 50 lb, working at heights, and operating in extreme weather and noisy environments. Employees must wear required personal protective equipment and be able to navigate confined, uneven, or cluttered areas while maintaining visual and auditory acuity. • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, or related field. • Minimum five years experience as a field engineer or similar role. • Knowledge of MIC Health and Safety programs and project‑specific regulations. • Demonstrated strong work ethic, initiative, and commitment to ethics and integrity. • Effective leadership with ability to delegate, support, and meet deadlines. • Willingness to travel extensively and relocate for 6‑12 month project assignments. • Physical ability to lift up to 50 lb, work at heights, and perform hard labor in varied climates.

Requirements

• ▸bachelor's
• ▸5 years
• ▸safety
• ▸leadership
• ▸travel
• ▸physical

Benefits

This is a traveling, project‑based position that may require up to 90 % travel and placements on sites anywhere in the United States. Assignments typically last 8–18 months, with a designated per diem, mobilization support, a company vehicle or allowance, and one extended weekend every four weeks. The role offers flexibility to live on‑site while maintaining connectivity to corporate resources. Compensation ranges from $130,000 to $180,000 annually, with merit‑based performance reviews, 401(k) matching, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families, flexible spending accounts, diabetes management, telehealth, prescription drug plans, pet insurance, paid time off, holidays, military leave, disability and life insurance, emergency travel assistance, and an employee assistance program. • Base salary $130,000–$180,000 per year, with performance‑based merit increases. • 401(k) with company match and Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). • Medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage for employees and families. • Flexible spending accounts for healthcare and dependent care. • Additional health benefits: diabetes management, telehealth, prescription drug plan, pet insurance. • Paid time off, paid holidays, bereavement leave, and military leave with differential pay. • Short‑ and long‑term disability, life insurance, and accidental death & dismemberment coverage. • Emergency travel assistance program and group legal plan. • Employee Assistance Program for personal and professional support.

Work Environment

Field