Senior Engineer (San Antonio)
About The Position
The Senior Engineer provides technical, administrative, and training support to Operations staff in project development, with an emphasis on project engineering. The role supports preconstruction, project start-up, engineering procedures, risk management, and the sharing of best practices across projects and Business Units. The position reports to an Operations Manager, Senior Operations Manager, or Regional Operations Manager. The employee regularly works on-site at construction work sites and may perform other duties as assigned. The work environment can include moving mechanical parts, heights, fumes or airborne particles, outdoor weather, electrical-shock risk, and moderate-to-very-loud noise. The job requires navigating active construction areas, including climbing stairs and ladders and using construction personnel hoists.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or at least four years of formal engineering or architectural training.
- At least 15 years of building construction experience, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
- Strong knowledge of construction cost, scheduling, estimating, purchasing, and engineering principles and techniques.
- Basic understanding of Turner accounting procedures.
- Strong knowledge of construction methods and materials, including their characteristics, installation procedures, and tolerances.
- Management know-how, leadership, and interpersonal skills.
- Strong presentation, verbal, and written communication skills.
- Ability to climb permanent and temporary stairs and ladders, use construction personnel hoists as a passenger, and negotiate work areas under construction.
- Vision abilities including close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
- Ability to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; sit, talk, hear, stand, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
- Ability to occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
Responsibilities
- Perform constructability reviews during preconstruction on assigned projects.
- Support preparation of Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP) proposals and estimates as required.
- Understand and share national and local building codes and requirements, as well as Turner’s internal policies.
- Monitor and assist with the development, training, and evaluation of engineering personnel.
- Adhere strictly to safety, ethics, and compliance requirements.
- Stay current with industry technology and manage the rollout of new technologies on Turner jobsites.
- Conduct regular meetings across Business Units to discuss challenges, relevant issues, lessons learned, and information sharing.
- Update and improve existing procedures manuals and develop new manuals for areas not adequately covered.
- Assemble and distribute detailed checklists on a variety of topics, with emphasis on risk management.
- Collaborate with architects and engineers on industry topics and coordinate meetings.
- Attend conferences and industry seminars to gather information on new technologies and systems and assess their impact on the business.
- Participate actively in project start-up and maintain an ongoing overview of engineering procedures.
- Visit projects periodically, including attending job and pre-installation meetings, to assist with risk management.
- Collect best practices and examples of procedures and methods—including scheduling, budgeting, and QA/QC—from project visits and share them with other projects and Business Units.
- Review project closeout procedures.
- Manage off-site document storage and retrieval.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
