Senior Project Engineer

Job Description

We’re looking for a seasoned Project Engineer with 8+ years overseeing $15M+ commercial, public, or educational facility projects. This role is vital in managing all project phases—from planning to closeout—while ensuring compliance with DSA standards, LEED certification, and BIM integration. If you excel at coordinating schedules, budgets, and team activities to deliver high-quality, sustainable spaces, we want you on our team to lead projects that shape the future.

Minimum Required Qualifications:

1. Eight (8) years full time paid professional experience in a similar or equivalent position involved in project or construction management of commercial and/or public or educational facility construction projects with values in excess of $15M.

2. Graduation from a recognized college or university with a bachelor’s degree in architecture, Engineering or Construction Management.

3. OR Additional qualifying experience may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis, provided that graduation from high school or evidence of equivalent educational proficiency is met.

Qualifications:

1. Experience utilizing Building Information Modeling (BIM).

2. Experience with Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certified projects and/or the Collaborative for High Performing Schools (CHPS).

3. Experience with Division of the State Architect (DSA) construction/design process.

Tasks and Responsibilities:

1. Coordinates various aspects of project delivery and leads the administration of construction projects including planning, design, budget maintenance, scheduling, labor compliance and completing close-out activities.

2. Schedule, document and track project planning and engineering activities with Project Managers, contractors, field staff and other stakeholders.

3. Reads, interprets and evaluates architectural and engineering plans and proposals and provides contracting strategies and execution, and coordinates award forms and documentation.

4. Reviews and responds to Requests for Clarifications (RFC), Change Order Proposals (COP) and Change Directives (CD) for quality assurance and merit.

5. Prepares cost estimates and assists in negotiating a fair and reasonable cost for change orders submitted by contractors.

6. Reviews and monitors applications for payment and ensures projects are delivered within approved timelines.

7. Performs site walks to verify field conditions and develop progress or status reports.

8. Reviews contractor baseline schedules, including analysis of critical path and recovery schedules.

9. Reviews Constructability Review and ensure compliance with District standards, Division of State Architect (DSA) guidelines and building code requirements.

10. Maintain project files and logs that include correspondence, contractor invoices and progress statements, change orders as well as claims, timesheets and extra services.

11. Coordinates progress meetings with contractors, project managers and field staff; prepares agendas and records meeting minutes and follows up on action items.

12. Acts as support staff in the collection of contract data and documentation to resolve changes and claims.

13. Assists in project close-out activities and acquisition of technical documents, project records, including as-builts, drawings, test records and maintenance of manuals.

14. Leads efforts in performing tests required to ensure material compliance with plans and specifications.

15. Performs other duties as directed by Senior Project Managers / OARs or Project Engineers.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.

Company Description:

PMCS Group is a full service project management, construction management and inspection services firm with over 18 years’ experience in successful project delivery. Our team has supported numerous entities and public works projects in the Southern California region. Our team is currently supporting entities such as the City of Los Angeles, Bureaus of Engineering, Sanitation, and Street Services; Los Angeles County Department of Public Works; Port of Long Beach; Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority; Los Angeles Unified School District; Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD), and; California State University Long Beach, to name a few. Our team’s commitment to partnering has led to the successful delivery of over $4B worth of projects without any claims.

PMCS has expanded our expertise into the private sector, particularly focusing on large scale advanced technology and mission critical projects. Our team has delivered microchip manufacturing facilities, cleanrooms, labs and large scale data center facilities. We’ve expanded our reach into Northern California, Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Texas, and other states. PMCS supports entities such as QTS Data Centers, Vantage Data Centers, Cologix Data Centers, Intel, Lam Research, Samsung, TSMC, and others.

PMCS Group’s project portfolio also includes numerous public facility projects, such as the Port of Long Beach Fireboat Station 20 project, major water resource projects, including the City of LA / LAWA Argo Drain Sub-Basin Facility Project, and major educational projects, like the California State University Long Beach Parkside North Housing Residence Project. We bring extensive transportation and infrastructure project experience, including our work as a joint venture partner on LACMTA’s Purple Line Project and our work on LA County Department of Public Works’ Santa Anita dam.

We believe that every project success is based on partnering, collaboration, and consolidating resource pools to provide our clients with the optimum balance of flexibility and responsiveness needed to achieve high quality results for the best value.

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