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PCL Construction Hiring for Solar Project Engineer at Houston, TX Full Time
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The future you want is within reach.
At PCL, we build the places where life happens and find camaraderie in the process. We’re a community of builders committed to building better communities. That’s why we’re always looking ahead, and not just to the next project or what’s next in our industry.
We’re also looking at what’s next for you and how we can help you build a career you’re proud of. This position may be located at one of our projects in Corpus Christi, Texas, Yakima County, Washington, or Champaign County, Ohio. Your project assignment will be based on business need.
Per-diem and project allowance are available to help cover temporary living expenses for candidates who meet the eligibility criteria. Depending on project availability, once your time on this project ends, you may be transferred to the next project or back to our home office in Houston, Texas to await your next assignment.
Here’s how a Project Engineer for our Solar division contributes to our team:
Responsibilities
- Maintains contract with select trade partners and responsible for some subcontract administration, including defining work scope, answering inquiries and supervising progress.
- Participates in change management and change order process, including pricing, processing, and assessing cost and schedule impact before reviewing.
- Maintains and performs project document control and procedures (coordinating RFIs, shop drawing and submittal process maintaining as-built drawings, etc.) (Solar).
- Collaborates with the project team lead in supervising design with timely response to the submittal schedule.
- Participates in the reviews of trade partners’ submittals form compliance with scope, design documentation prior to forwarding to design for review.
- Coordinates with project manager and superintendent in managing and ing overall project or select scope performance as per site HSE, cost management, schedule, and quality.
- Prepares and supervises progress claims and estimates.
- Coordinates inventory and tracking of materials and equipment and expedites material orders.
- Assists with site inspections from the design team to resolve constructability and site coordination issues and reviews and sign offs on functionality, AHJ (Authority Having Jurisdiction) requirements, and code compliance. Ensures that resolution is achieved and accepted by all partners.
- Involved in and participates with overall project closeout, including document archival, maintenance and warranty manuals, deficiencies, and warranty work.
Qualifications
- 1-3 years of construction experience in an operational role preferred.
- Experience with Utility Scale/EPC solar construction projects
- Associates or bachelor’s degree in a related subject area: construction management, engineering, architecture preferred, or equivalent experience.
- Verified understanding about construction equipment and techniques, drawings and specifications, project health, safety, and environment (HSE), quality, building materials, and required standards as per field.
- Ability to apply basic engineering/problem solving principles to construction challenges.
- Effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication.
- Demonstrates flexibility and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Planning, organizational, and time management skills with the ability to multi-task, prioritize own work and delegate simple tasks.
- Ability to build a comprehensive schedule.
- Ability to coordinate subcontracts and contract documents.
- Shown understanding in Microsoft Office Suite and internal operational systems with a strong ability to embrace new technology.
- Must have a valid driver’s license.
PCL is an innovative, employee-owned company comprised of people who find passion in their profession and take pride in doing great work every day. Our work powers the infrastructure and utilities that are essential to daily life and our projects are the scene of vacations, careers, education and healing. We are consistently ranked among the best companies to work for because we are committed to supporting and developing our teams.
The PCL Companies celebrate diversity and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants and will make all employment-related decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability or veteran status.
Should you require an accommodation during the application process, please contact us at [email protected] with the position and location you are interested in.
Together, we can build success and a better future. Let’s get started!