
Preconstruction Engineer
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Job overview
The Preconstruction Engineer assists with preconstruction services by analyzing project costs and scopes of work and coordinating administrative requirements and teams. The role involves building relationships with clients and trade partners, supporting bid processes, and participating in pre-bid job walks. Travel of up to 10% may be required.
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Full job description
The Preconstruction Engineer is responsible to assist in providing preconstruction services for projects. They should be self-motivated and enjoy meeting new clients and creating relationships with trade partners. The Preconstruction Engineer works to analyze costs and scopes of work while maintaining administrative requirements and team coordination related to preconstruction. This position requires an adaptable team player with great communication and time management skills. In this role you may be required to travel up to 10% of the time.
Responsibilities:
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Ability to read and understand construction design documents and specifications.
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Perform quantity take-offs for specific divisions/scopes of work.
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Develop industry relationships and expand professional networks that have potential to generate future sales opportunities.
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Initiate, organize, and attend project meetings with appropriate members of the project team and ensure that meeting agendas and meeting minutes are produced and distributed to attendees and other necessary parties.
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Ensure the proper bid documents are sent to bidders and plan rooms for various bid packages as they come online. Build and maintain the bidders list.
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Ability to confidently present work product to both internal and external clients.
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Assist in trade partner solicitation through phone, emails, and in person meetings
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Participate in pre-bid job walks and clearly document through pictures, videos, and notes existing conditions along with any verbal instructions from the person facilitating
Requirements:
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Bachelor's Degree in Building Science, Construction Management, Civil Engineering or related field
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1-3 years of experience in large, complex facility construction and on-site experience in the management of new construction and the renovation of existing assets
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Basic MEP knowledge
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Proficient in MS Office
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Valid Driver's License Required
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LEED AP, OSHA 10 Hour Preferred
Physical Demands and Working Environment
The conditions herein are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.
Environment: Work is performed primarily in a standard office environment with extensive public contact and frequent interruptions.
Physical: Primary functions require sufficient physical ability and mobility to work in an office setting; to stand or sit for prolonged periods of time; to occasionally stoop, bend, kneel, crouch, reach, and twist; to lift, carry, push, and/or pull light to moderate amounts of weight 50 lbs; to operate office equipment requiring repetitive hand movement and fine coordination including use of a computer keyboard; to travel to other locations using various modes of private and commercial transportation; and to verbally communicate to exchange information.
Vision: See in the normal visual range with or without correction.
Hearing: Hear in the normal audio range with or without correction.
EOE - Vets/Disabilities
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How this job compares
Set against the 2,521 open Construction jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$102–159K/yr826 salary ranges
- US median$29–60/hr476 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 64 open Construction jobs in Tennessee and 2,521 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Tennessee
- J.E. Dunn Construction Company13 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Construction postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 1,843 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 787 of the 2,521 open Construction jobs (31%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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