Senior Engineer (San Antonio)

Turner Construction•San Antonio, TX

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Engineer provides Operations staff with technical, administrative, and training support for project development, with an emphasis on project engineering. The role supports projects from preconstruction through closeout, helps manage engineering procedures and risk, and shares construction practices and industry developments across business units. The position reports to an Operations Manager, Senior Operations Manager, or Regional Operations Manager. The employee may perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or a minimum of four years of formal engineering or architectural training.
A minimum of fifteen 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, and negotiate work areas under construction.
Vision abilities including close and 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.
Occasional ability to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Responsibilities

Perform constructability reviews during preconstruction on assigned projects.
Support Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP) preparation and/or estimate preparation as required.
Understand and share national and local building codes and requirements, along with Turner's internal policies.
Monitor and assist in the development, training, and evaluation of engineering personnel.
Ensure strict adherence to safety, ethics, and compliance requirements.
Remain current on industry technology and manage the rollout of new technologies onto Turner jobsites.
Conduct regular meetings in business units to discuss challenges, relevant issues, lessons learned, and exchange information.
Update and improve existing procedure manuals and develop new manuals for areas not adequately covered.
Assemble and make available detailed checklists on a variety of topics, emphasizing 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 in project start-up and maintain a continual overview of engineering procedures.
Visit projects periodically, including attending job or pre-installation meetings, to assist with risk management.
Collect best practices and examples or formats for procedures and methods, including scheduling, budgeting, and QA/QC, and share them with projects and business units.
Review project closeout procedures.
Manage off-site document storage and retrieval.