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Project Engineer

Turner Construction Company

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Location
NEW YORK, NY
Work Authorization
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Job overview

The Project Engineer leads project engineering staff and coordinates project communications, meetings, procurement, cost reporting, change management, and close-out. The role works with design teams, trade partners, owners, and internal teams to support constructability, bidding, scheduling, budget tracking, and project documentation. It uses construction and project-management platforms, including Procore, Autodesk Construction Cloud, BuildingConnected, SAP, Excel, Touchplan, and P6.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Staff DevelopmentProcoreAutodesk Construction CloudConstruction EstimatingConstructability ReviewBuildingConnectedMicrosoft ExcelTouchplanP6SAPProject Cost ReportingChange Order ManagementProject Close-Out

Full job description

  1. Lead, mentor, and support development of project engineering staff; participate in recruiting and onboarding efforts, deliver timely performance feedback, contribute to annual performance reviews, utilize talent development tools, and identify training opportunities aligned with project and individual development goals. 2. Establish and manage project communication protocols using platforms using Procore and Autodesk Construction Cloud to ensure efficient flow of information and approvals between the design team, consultants, owners, and trade partners. Lead coordination of OAC and internal meetings with clear documentation and follow-up. 3. Collaborate closely with Preconstruction and Procurement teams by providing detailed engineering insight during trade package development, focusing on scope clarity, constructability challenges, and site logistics. Leverage hands-on estimating experience across tradesincluding painting, specialties, demolition, and finishesto support accurate scoping and buyout strategies, particularly on complex projects like active hospital renovations and occupied office fit-outs that require phasing, infection control planning, and coordination with ongoing operations. 4. Conduct constructability and quality control reviews of design and construction documents, proactively identifying gaps, coordination conflicts, or code compliance issues. Collaborate with the design team to resolve discrepancies while contributing to logistics planning, value engineering studies, and material or method recommendationsdrawing on practical field experience in engineering and superintending to ensure buildable, cost-effective solutions. 5. Assist in development and review of trade partner Scope of Work (SOW) documents, ensuring clarity and completeness for bidding and contracting, incorporating lessons learned from field coordination and estimating roles. 6. Leverage BuildingConnected for estimating and budgeting efforts by soliciting trade partner bids, performing detailed bid leveling, and maintaining bid coverage across multiple packages to support cost certainty and informed procurement decisions. 7. Create and maintain procurement schedules for trade partners, major equipment, and long-lead materials in coordination with the project schedule using tools including Microsoft Excel, Touchplan and P6, ensuring alignment with construction milestones. 8. Prepare and track detailed project status updates and financial reports, collaborating with the project controls team to monitor budgets, forecasts, and cash flow projections, utilizing knowledge from estimating and cost tracking experience. 9. Schedule, facilitate, and document project meetings including internal coordination, subcontractor meetings, and Owner-Architect-Contractor (OAC) sessions, ensuring all action items are recorded and addressed using Procore. 10. Utilize SAP for comprehensive change order management, including tracking of trade partner proposals, internal cost exposure, owner-directed changes, and contract revisions. Facilitate owner negotiations by clearly presenting scope changes, supporting cost breakdowns, and providing backup documentation to justify changes. Ensure accurate documentation and timely approvals throughout the lifecycle of the project by maintaining detailed change order logs, collaborating with internal teams and owners for thorough reviews, and aligning all changes with project budget forecasts and contractual requirements. 11. Conduct data analysis and project cost reporting using Microsoft Excel to track estimate-to-actual trends, analyze buyout savings, monitor trade partner productivity, and prepare visual dashboards that support project reviews and executive reporting. 12. Lead project close-out efforts, including punch list coordination, turnover documentation, O&M manual compilation, warranty submissions, trade close-out tracking, and archival of records for future reference using Procore.

How this job compares

Set against the 5,054 open Project Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • New York median$95–135K/yr158 salary ranges
  • US median$35–45/hr264 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 221 open Project Engineer jobs in New York and 5,054 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in New York
Experience
Project Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 7 years (3,914 postings).
Education
3,172 of the 5,054 open Project Engineer jobs (63%) 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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