Project Engineer III
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Position Summary
As a Project Engineer III, you'll lead project-engineering activities supporting the delivery of heavy civil construction projects, including project controls, planning, field engineering, technical coordination, and project documentation.
This is an on-site, project-based position requiring travel. You'll work closely with project management and field leadership to connect cost, schedule, engineering, and field execution while providing direction and development to Project Engineers and other assigned personnel.
What You’ll Do
Lead Project Engineering
Lead and coordinate project-engineering activities from planning through completion.
Manage engineering assignments and priorities to support project cost, schedule, quality, and execution objectives.
Interpret plans, specifications, contracts, and technical requirements and provide direction to project and field teams.
Lead resolution and documentation of design questions, constructability issues, changed conditions, and field conflicts.
Coordinate field-engineering requirements, including layout, measurements, elevations, quantities, and verification of completed work.
Establish and maintain effective project-engineering processes, procedures, and controls.
Manage Cost & Project Controls
Manage job controls for assigned project areas, including quantities, production, labor, equipment, costs, forecasts, and performance reporting.
Support development and maintenance of project budgets, forecasts, schedules, and control systems.
Analyze cost, production, and schedule performance to identify trends, risks, and opportunities.
Coordinate corrective actions with project management and field leadership when performance varies from plan.
Ensure project controls, reporting, quantities, and supporting documentation are accurate and current.
Coordinate Planning & Execution
Coordinate engineering, procurement, materials, subcontractors, suppliers, and field requirements with the project execution plan.
Support project scheduling, look-ahead planning, and resource coordination.
Coordinate across project management, field operations, subcontractors, designers, and other stakeholders to resolve issues and keep work progressing.
Represent the project in coordination and client meetings as assigned.
Anticipate cost, schedule, production, quality, contractual, and technical risks and work with project leadership to develop solutions.
Lead & Develop the Team
Provide day-to-day leadership, direction, and mentoring to Project Engineers and other assigned project personnel.
Assign and coordinate engineering responsibilities and monitor completion of assigned work.
Develop team members through coaching, feedback, and increased responsibility.
Promote consistency in project controls, documentation, engineering practices, and communication.
Apply lessons learned to improve project execution and future performance.
Travel & Work Location
On-Site & Project-Based: Requires regular presence at active construction sites.
Travel Requirements: Travel is an essential requirement and will vary based on project assignments and business needs.
Relocation / Mobility: Assignments may require working away from home and moving between project locations as projects are completed.
Work Environment: Requires working effectively in both field and project-office environments.
Education & Experience
Required
Degree / Experience: Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Business Administration, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of relevant technical training and construction experience.
Years of Experience: Four (4) or more years of construction estimating, engineering, field support, or similar experience.
Technical Independence: Demonstrated experience independently managing project-engineering activities, project controls, field coordination, technical issues, and project documentation.
Leadership Experience: Demonstrated experience providing direction, coordination, or mentorship to project personnel.
Preferred
Experience with heavy civil construction, earthwork/mass grading, paving, underground utilities, concrete, drainage, aggregate surfacing, or large-scale site development.
Civil construction experience supporting utility-scale solar, wind, battery energy storage systems (BESS), or substations, including grading, access roads, crane/equipment pads, drainage, or aggregate surfacing. Direct energy-sector experience is preferred, not required; comparable heavy civil, mass grading, and large-scale site-development experience is valued.
Experience or familiarity with HCSS software, including HeavyJob.
Familiarity with Trimble, Topcon, or comparable GPS/GNSS machine-control systems.
Experience with Trimble Business Center or similar software is beneficial.
Experience with construction scheduling and project-control software.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Advanced working knowledge of heavy civil construction methods, equipment, materials, sequencing, and field operations.
Strong understanding of project controls, cost management, forecasting, quantity tracking, production reporting, and scheduling.
Ability to interpret and manage plans, specifications, contracts, and technical requirements.
Ability to anticipate project risks, evaluate alternatives, and develop practical solutions.
Strong leadership, communication, coordination, and organizational skills.
Ability to coordinate effectively across project management, field leadership, subcontractors, suppliers, designers, clients, and other stakeholders.
Ability to prioritize and direct multiple engineering activities while maintaining accurate controls and documentation.
Strong proficiency with construction technology, project controls, scheduling, estimating, and field-engineering tools.
What Success Looks Like
Safety & Field Focus: Leads with safety and connects project engineering to field execution.
Strategic Alignment: Leads the engineering function and keeps priorities, controls, and information aligned.
Performance Insight: Understands project performance and identifies cost, production, and schedule trends early.
Proactive Problem Solver: Anticipates and resolves issues before they affect project execution.
Cross-Functional Leader: Coordinates across functions to keep engineering, procurement, controls, and field activities aligned.
People Developer: Develops Project Engineers and strengthens the capabilities of the project team.
Growth Trajectory: Demonstrates readiness for broader project-management responsibility.
Physical Demands
This position is performed primarily in an active construction/project-site environment.
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job:
Regularly Required: Talk and hear.
Frequently Required: Stand, walk, sit, and use hands to operate a computer keyboard.
Occasionally Required: Reach with hands and arms, and lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
Vision: Close vision and the ability to adjust focus.
Environment: Subject to outside working conditions and working around large construction equipment.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Additional Requirements & Skills
Comply with and support EPC safety initiatives and requirements.
Ability to abide by EPC's Code of Conduct on a daily basis.
Valid driver's license and ability to drive.
Ability to work effectively as part of a team.
This job description reflects essential functions of this position. It does not restrict management’s right to reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.