Sr Construction Project Engineer - Aerospace

BRPH•Melbourne, FL

10d•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Construction Project Engineer reports directly to the Aerospace Market Vice President and serves as the Vice President’s deputy for construction execution across the Aerospace portfolio. The role works with Project Managers to oversee performance, coordinate organizational support, proactively manage risk, and resolve execution issues. The portfolio may include complex aerospace facilities such as launch infrastructure, manufacturing, processing, and supporting facilities. The position provides operational and technical leadership across financial performance, schedules, subcontracts, design changes, quality, safety, commissioning, and closeout. Assignments are based on business needs, project complexity, and risk. The position exercises execution oversight delegated by the Market Vice President, but does not establish a personnel reporting relationship unless supervisory responsibilities are separately assigned. Project Managers remain accountable for their projects, while Superintendents retain responsibility for field operations within their authority. Contract execution, expenditure approvals, personnel decisions, and final design approvals remain subject to established company authority. The position must escalate matters beyond its delegated authority. The role requires travel, temporary duty assignments, or relocation when required by business needs. Site work involves navigating construction sites and working in various weather conditions while following safety protocols and personal protective equipment requirements. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. Management may change the job’s responsibilities and tasks as necessary.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, or a related field plus eight years of progressively responsible construction experience, including substantial project-engineering and execution responsibilities; alternatively, thirteen years of relevant construction experience may substitute for the degree and experience combination.
Demonstrated experience overseeing multiple concurrent construction projects and working directly with Project Managers on execution performance, financial reviews, risk management, schedules, subcontracts, and corrective actions.
Ability to evaluate budgets, cost-to-complete forecasts, projected margins, cash flow, and commercial exposure, and coordinate corrective actions with Accounting and project leadership.
Experience with construction management, contracts, design-build delivery, project controls, estimating, constructability, commissioning, quality, safety, and closeout, including design-change coordination and transition from Preconstruction into construction.
Demonstrated technical leadership, mentoring, negotiation, relationship management, and problem-solving skills; ability to resolve cross-functional issues and present concise recommendations to executive leadership, clients, designers, field teams, and trade partners.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office and Procore or a comparable construction management platform, and ability to interpret project financial and schedule reporting.
Willingness to travel, accept temporary duty assignments, or relocate when required by project and portfolio needs.
Ability to navigate construction sites, including walking, climbing ladders and scaffolding, and standing for extended periods on uneven surfaces.
Ability to lift up to 50 pounds and handle tools and equipment and perform tasks requiring coordination and manual skills.
Manual dexterity, hearing, mental acuity, typing, reaching, repetitive motion, speaking, and visual acuity.
Ability to operate a motor vehicle.
Ability to stand and sit for periods longer than 30 minutes but not more than two hours consecutively.
Ability to print and draw legible letters, numbers, words, characters, and symbols.
Ability to learn complex tasks and remember how to perform them without assistance once trained.
Ability to maintain behavioral control and concentration in stressful situations or under short deadlines, and to make quick decisions in response to construction issues.
Ability to work in various weather conditions and handle the physical demands of supervising a construction project.
Ability to adhere to safety protocols and enforce construction-site safety standards, including PPE requirements such as hard hats, safety vests, and steel-toed boots.

Nice To Haves

Experience delivering large or complex commercial, industrial, aviation, federal, mission-critical, or comparable projects.
Experience with TAKT or comparable production-planning methods.
OSHA 30-hour Construction Outreach course completion card, or verified equivalent, held by the start date, with proof maintained and required employer, project, or jurisdictional refresher training completed.
Current U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Construction Quality Management for Contractors certificate, or BRPH-approved equivalent, held by the start date and maintained through required renewals.

Responsibilities

Work with Project Managers to review execution performance from project startup through closeout, identify emerging issues, establish corrective actions, and track them through resolution.
Lead regular execution reviews and provide portfolio reporting to the Market Vice President on financial trends, schedule exceptions, procurement constraints, risks, overdue actions, and decisions requiring leadership involvement.
Review project budgets, cost-to-complete forecasts, projected margins, contingency usage, cash flow, and change exposure; validate assumptions and coordinate corrective actions.
Coordinate monthly financial reporting, billing, receivables, commitments, accruals, and reconciliation of forecasts with accounting records; follow through on discrepancies and collection issues.
Maintain a consolidated view of contractual, technical, financial, procurement, schedule, safety, and quality risks, ensuring ownership, mitigation actions, due dates, and timely escalation.
Review schedule baselines, updates, critical paths, milestones, long-lead procurement, and recovery plans; coordinate resolution of constraints and track corrective actions.
Coordinate project turnover, scope clarification, constructability, and design changes with Preconstruction, Project Managers, and design leadership; assess impacts and track approvals, notices, and owner commitments.
Review subcontract scope completeness, exclusions, buyout status, performance, changes, notices, and commercial issues; support negotiations, claims avoidance, and documentation within delegated authority.
Identify resource gaps and coordinate support from Preconstruction, Accounting, project controls, design, quality, safety, and other functions; recommend staffing priorities and track support needs.
Provide advanced guidance on construction methods, sequencing, building systems, constructability, field conditions, design coordination, and complex construction challenges.
Oversee submittal, request-for-information, change-management, document-control, and as-built processes; monitor critical and overdue items and coordinate required approvals.
Work with Project Managers, Superintendents, and safety and quality leaders to address deficiencies and follow through on corrective actions; oversee permits, inspections, testing, commissioning, turnover, owner acceptance, closeout, and Quality Data Packages.
Mentor Construction Project Engineers I, II, and III; delegate and review work, support onboarding, training, recruiting input, and career development, and standardize execution practices and lessons learned across the portfolio.
Represent the Market Vice President in designated execution meetings and matters within delegated authority; travel, accept temporary duty assignments, or relocate as business needs require, and perform other related duties.