Construction Engineer at Patrick Burke

The Construction Engineer collects information, updates and / or reviews project schedules, maintains costs, resources, risk and changes for assigned project portfolios within the capital construction program. The job supports mid and senior level Project Estimating and Scheduling staff in the management of project / program schedules.

Job Duties

• Supports the monitoring of contractor performance and the confidence of timely and on budget project completion by, assisting in the analysis of the contractors’ construction 90-day, 180-day, baseline and monthly update schedules. Helps to ensure adherence to contract requirements of scope, cost, quality, safety, procurement, permitting and project performance period.

• Assists with the planning, development and maintenance of preliminary, baseline, and monthly schedules for work performed by in-house work crews, on major and critical system-wide programs.

• Supports the development and monitoring of summary-level engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning for the program schedule, to show the major deliverables, key milestones, and a summary of work breakdown structure activities.

• Assists with the preparation and evaluation of Time Entitlement Analyses, including various forensic analysis per recommended practices and contract specifications, to advise senior management and facilitate the award of contract time extensions, due to delays

• Supports efforts for the risks register and project risk planning to ensure risks are proactively and effectively managed to minimize impacts on schedule and cost.

• Reviews Earn Value Management parameters such as schedule/cost variance and schedule/cost performance index to determine the health of projects and provide advice and solutions to project/ program managers regarding any foreseen/unforeseen slippage or cost overruns.

• Assists in the preparation of the monthly project financial reports including cash flow projections, resource allocations and status of milestones to provide project/ program managers with summary information on ongoing projects

• Attends project meetings with project managers, various project teams and walks job sites to verify progress and provide project managers with schedule and costs related input.

• Supports the development of installation rates and estimating activity durations based on resources, general conditions and project specifications to create realistic schedules and evaluate Contractor’s schedule activity durations.

• Supports the development of and updates to periodic forecasts, to re-baseline the remaining plan, based on the actual project progress and changes, in an effort to continually provide realistic plans to meet project goals and budget.

• Provides project details for the Integrated Master Schedule including, major milestones, durations, activities and percentage complete, to establish an overall view of all the ongoing projects and programs in the CAPD.

• Supports all related project control process improvement efforts to facilitate the best practices in the performance and reporting of projects

Tools, Equipment, Software:

•Laptop, docking station and external keyboard and mouse

• External screen

• MS Office

• P6

• MS Project

• Acumen Fuse or other schedule quality metric software

• Adobe Professional

• PPE

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Construction Management