Project Engineer jobs in Boulder, CO

Compensation Range for this Role: $65k to $75k per year

• Encore is a legacy company that has a strong preference of promoting from within our workforce. You will have a career path!
• Aggressive Employee Referral Program! 
• Get technical, safety, personal finance, and leadership training through “Encore University”. This program is at no cost to our employees.
• Receive Paid Time Off (PTO) and all major holidays.
• An employee assistance program that includes counseling, legal and financial advice.
• A retirement plan, including an employee-matched 401(k).
• Short-Term, Long-Term Disability and Life Insurance.
• You will have access to Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance. We have Benefit Programs that start at no cost to our employees!

General Responsibilities:

• Assist Project Manager as necessary in performing cost to complete on a monthly basis
• Strong communications with the entire project team (Internal and External)
• Maintain open communication lines with all working relationships
• Follow up to ensure items for which the job is accountable are performed
• Earn and maintain customer’s trust
• Uphold the core values of the organization
• Work well with others to accomplish the mission of the organization and the job
• Work with the project team to set up the job
• Work with the project team to build an information sheet and map to the job site

Specific Responsibilities:

Leadership

• Constantly train the field engineers in the project engineer’s role 

Process Improvement

• Engage and help to develop new Encore standards and processes and hold others accountable to them 
• Participate in Project Engineer meetings

Risk Management

• Assist Project Manager with change estimates
• Assist project team with labor cost codes for the project
• Work with Project Manager and Assistant Project Manager to write the commodity purchase order from the installation estimate
• Ensure all parties to the job (at all levels of the job) apply their time into the proper phase code for timekeeping

Customer Service

• Take responsibility for submittals
• Assist with submittal creation and procurement of material
• Make certain purchase orders and Subcontracts are written and that the project is current on change orders to the purchase orders
• Coordinate and maintain relationships with all project stakeholders
• Ensure proper maintenance of construction documents
• Actively engage in any required meetings
• Ensure the proper permit is obtained in the jurisdiction for the job location. Understand the permitting process and what the wiring methods are in a different jurisdiction
• Responsible for project closeout documentation
• Prior to completion, involves the service department so they know the job and are introduced to the owner to maintain the relationship
• Assist in closing out the job with vendors
• Other duties as may be assigned

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Knowledge of:

• The construction process from scheduling to manpower to the labor, materials, and equipment required for installation
• Constructability and the construction process
• Algebra and geometry
• Statistics
• Financial math

Skill in:

• Acting as a self-starter
• Good organization skills
• Spatial orientation
• Identifying scope gaps in construction documents
• Customer management
• Listening
• Speaking intelligently
• Estimating resources needed to complete required tasks
• Adapting to new and changing requirements, environments, and/or information
• Managing people and processes
• Managing complex projects, breaking them down to their component levels
• Using communication software
• Effective written and oral communication sufficient to be able to elicit and communicate information and achieve understanding (Technical/Business writing)
• Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with customers, vendors, consultants, management, and employees
• Operating a computer
• Operate Microsoft office products
• Organizing work to accomplish tasks
• Reading and writing
• Prioritizing and reprioritizing to meet job needs
• Identifying and managing risk
• Problem-solving
• Tracking numbers and bits of data relevant to the work assignment

Ability to:

• Retain and access critical information from memory
• Conceptualize and visualize the project for constructability means and methods
• Think on your feet
• Understand when to speak and when not to speak
• Be personally detached from ideas (no ego)
• See things from multiple perspectives
• Ability to coordinate effectively with all ENCORE Support Services

Physical Requirements:

• Driving
• Sitting
• Climbing
• Lifting (up to 50 lbs.)
• Standing
• Stooping
• Vision acuity (near and far)
• Walking

Requirements:

• High School Diploma or equivalent is required.
• An associate’s or bachelor’s degree in a related field OR a Journeyman’s License with five years of progressive experience in the electrical trade is preferred.

Encore Electric, Inc. is an EOE, including disability/vets