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INTRODUCTION

Our staff includes many of the region’s most talented and experienced construction professionals. Saunders North provides excellent benefits, highly competitive compensation and an opportunity to work on a wide variety of projects in the northern Colorado community.

As much as we believe in our history, reputation and continued success, we believe in our employees. They add value and help elevate the company to a higher level. Their skills and ideas only make this company better. Now take the next step to join Saunders North, and see where it takes you.

Saunders North aspires to be an organization made up of people who are passionate about growing and developing both as individuals and as an organization. We are not about acquiring and keeping employees who perform jobs, but rather about fostering exciting, fulfilling and rewarding lifetime careers.

Position Title Senior Project Engineer - Saunders North

Classification FLSA Exempt

Salary Range $85K-$90K/year

Reports to Project Manager

Position Type Full Time

Purpose of the Role

A Senior Project Engineer at Saunders Construction, Inc. has mastered the Project Engineer role and serves as the lead Project Engineer on a project, potentially managing other Project Engineers. They take on greater responsibility in planning, coordinating, and problem-solving to ensure project goals are met on time and within budget. This role bridges Project Engineers, Superintendents, and Project Managers to drive seamless execution and continuous improvement.

Functions / Duties

• Leads submittal process, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely approvals with Design and Ownership teams. Guides Project Engineers as needed.
• Regularly walks jobsite to review quality, safety, schedule, and overall progress. Recommends solutions to project team and follows through implementation.
• Identifies, resolves, develops, and manages RFIs, working with trade partners and design teams to drive solutions. Trains Project Engineers on proper RFI procedures.
• Assists Superintendent with field coordination efforts, including major building system integrations, and schedule updates.
• Manages procurement schedules to align with project needs and eliminate delays.
• Reviews subcontractor change orders for accuracy and compliance.
• Oversees punch list completion and closeout process.
• Supports Superintendent with scheduling, field purchasing, and quality control efforts.
• Prepares for and facilitates major project meetings, including subcontractor and OAC meetings.
• Mentors and trains Project Engineers, ensuring project and team success.
• Proficient in internal project management systems and supports Project Engineers in their use.
• Take weekly jobsite photographs to document activities and conditions of jobsite.
• Review and verify job cost status reports and creates daily reports.
• Correspond with subcontractors relative to administrative duties.

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities / Qualifications / Experience

• Two (2) plus years construction experience, preferably as a project or field engineer.
• Bachelor's degree in related field from four-year college or university preferred.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
• Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry.
• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Physical Demands

The following are some of the physical demands commonly associated with this position:

• Spends approximately 50% of the time sitting, and 50% of the time either standing or walking while on the job.
• Occasionally lifts up to 50 lbs, when moving project binders, office supplies or files, and may stoop, kneel, crouch, and balance while performing these same functions.
• Occasionally required to climb, crawl, stoop and negotiate ladders, stairs or other routes at and within project sites in order to fulfill duties.
• Constantly uses verbal and auditory capacity enabling interpersonal communication as well as communication through automated devices such as E-Mail, telephone and radio.
• Constantly employs eye, hand and finger coordination enabling the use of office machinery such as computer keyboard.
• Constantly utilizes full scope of visual capacity to travel to project sites and observe/verify project progress in addition to operating automated office equipment.

Constantly - Activity exists more than 2/3 of the time

Frequently - Activity exists from 1/3 to 2/3 of the time

Occasionally - Activity exists less than 1/3 of the time.

Saunders Construction's Benefits

• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Section 125 Plan
• 401k Plan / Safe Harbor plan
• Paid Time Off
• Bonus Program
• Employer Paid Term Life Insurance
• FAMLI Leave
• Employer Paid Long Term Disability

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