Cost Engineer - Construction jobs in Brownsville, TX

***White Construction (Austin, TX) hiring for a project located in Brownsville, TX area.
***Very high profile, "iconic" development...amazing opportunity to add to your project history!
***This is a fast-track project scheduled to be completed in late 2024.
***Candidates will be eligible for per diem.

About White Construction

White Construction’s vision is to be the most sought-after provider of construction services. We take pride in our history of excellence and in maintaining meaningful relationships with our clients, architects, engineers, and subcontractors alike. This family-owned construction firm takes our family values seriously as employees from different backgrounds come together with a core purpose of Building Success Together. Through our core values of Safety, Leadership, Teamwork, Trust, and Relationships, we deliver quality and exceptional service on the most complex projects with our client’s goals and visions at the forefront of our operations. From healthcare facilities to corporate headquarters, retail centers to high end residential, White Construction approaches every project with remarkable attention to detail, offering our clients and partners the step-above service that has kept them coming back since 1971.

Benefit highlights:

• Bonus potential
• Company provided health insurance (no cost to employee)
• Cell phone allowance
• Truck allowance
• 401k plan including company contribution (fully invested immediately)
• Life & disability insurance

Essential Roles and Responsibilities:

Under the supervision of a Project Manager, your roles and responsibilities as Senior Project Engineer would encompass the following:

• Performs essential project management tasks such as updating project schedules, processing submittals and RFIs, assisting with the subcontractor procurement process, coordination, project delivery and close out.
• Document Control - review & understand all contract documents. Maintain all sets of construction documents. This entails ordering, coordinating delivery, updating, and distributing of all drawings.
• RFIs - Monitor RFI status and maintain the RFI log. Generate RFIs and distribute all answered RFIs to appropriate parties. Notify subcontractors, suppliers, A/E, and Owner for delinquent RFI responses. Update RFI Log weekly, generate RFI status reports for use in weekly meetings.
• Submittals - Oversee the system (Submittal Log and any software that is used on the job) that gathers, generates, submits, tracks, distributes, and maintains all submittals on the project. Ensure that all submittals are properly reviewed for conformance to the Contract Documents prior to submittal to the Architect, and are fully executed and approved in accordance with the project schedule.
• Team Communication - Be able to demonstrate excellent people skills with the project team.
• Assisting Field Supervisors with Project Coordination - Work closely with field management to help coordinate the delivery of materials, dates/times that specialty subcontractors will be on site, notification of contract document changes, and anything else that the field management may need.
• Meeting Minutes - Prepare and distribute all project meeting minutes.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by the employee assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified. Duties and responsibilities may be added or changed as deemed appropriate by management at any time.

White Construction is an equal opportunity employer.

White Construction Company does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms or agencies. Any resume submitted to any employee of White Construction without a prior written or verbal search agreement will be considered unsolicited and the property of White Construction Company. Please, no phone calls or emails.