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Schools and institutions are struggling to find ways to reduce their vulnerability to failing infrastructure that impedes their ability to perform the mission of serving their constituents. Often, they lack the ability to even define the real underlying issues, and even more often lack access to funding to address them.

Schneider Electric is positioned to work with these institutions to assess their facilities and define the issues, while identifying energy and operational cost savings to provide capital that funds much needed upgrades, and allow the institution to focus on their mission.

Schneider Electric is uniquely positioned to reduce the time to construction by months, or even years, through design build and other unique contracting vehicles. Schneider Electric often works with facilities that have been neglected and underfunded for years and strives to help modernize processes and prevent catastrophic failures, while also bringing systems into regulatory compliance.

This group is dedicated to using our time and energy to accomplish our mission of improving facilities to allow our customers to better serve their citizens and be better stewards of the environment at the same time.

This role will enable you to be part of a highly collaborative team and provide opportunities to establish additional best practices, industry standards, and paths for personal skills and growth.

Position Summary

To help Schneider Electric achieve the mission described above, the Project Engineer is responsible for supporting the Project Manager on assigned projects. The position works under direct supervision, performs routine daily activities and gathers and distributes information. The Project Engineer must be a flexible and adaptable team-player, as well as have string communication and customer service skills.

Major Duties & Responsibilities

• Receive, review, forward and track status of submittals
• Initiate, prepare, review, track and distribute RFI’s
• Assist in management of project permit process
• Assist in subcontractor qualification processes
• Assist in preparations of bid packages and procurement
• Update construction schedule based on project team input, Trade Contractor progress and materials delivery
• Change management, including soliciting, receiving, reviewing, and preparing quotations and change orders
• Track and inspect material deliveries
• Assist in preparation of monthly owner project status reports, as required
• Attend project meetings, as directed by Project Manager and record meeting minutes
• Assist and/or complete project close-out
• Utilization of project management tools
• Communicate and enforce Schneider Electric’s environmental, health and safety management policies
• Demonstrate commitment to an Injury-free environment through own actions and mentoring others
• Maintain file storage structures
• Other duties assigned

Skills Critical to Success

Critical skills that will determine success in this role are as follows:

• Written and verbal communication skills to communicate effectively with internal team members in addition to customers.
• Maintain project file organization in order to ensure version control, information accessibility, and clear communication with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Understanding of the concept and purpose of submittals for both contract compliance and project success.
• Ability to work with the Project Manager, who will serve as either a direct contributor or in an advisory capacity, to evaluate the stakeholder register and scope documents to determine submittal routing and approval procedures.
• Computer knowledge and efficiency, including Microsoft Office products.
• Ability to learn file management systems.
• Experience with vendor and customer billing.
• Time management and organizational skills to prioritize a large workload.
• Ability to follow processes and best practices documents to accomplish the primary duties of this role.

Career Progression

This is a unique position within our organization that offers several potential career paths. With exposure and experience in performance contracting and retrofit construction, this position could move laterally to entry level project management, either in the construction or project development phases. With exhibited skill and desire to work across multiple roles internally and externally, this position could prepare the employee for advancement into a construction services manager role, where the employee would become responsible for subcontractor and vendor management during the development phase, and procurement during the construction phase, and could take on direct reports in the form of other project engineers.

We do not expect the Project Engineer to be an expert in any of these areas, or to provide technical review of these submittals. However, if the employee displays a natural curiosity about these technical items, the Project Engineer role will afford the opportunity to grow general or specific technical knowledge.

A key focus for career progression in this role will be the desire to interact and learn from experience of those adjacent to this role. Further, a desire and demonstrated ability to refine or create process documents by identifying and capturing best practices will prepare the employee for a management role. Additionally, achieving a Project Management Professional certification from the Project Management Institute, and understanding the impact of a well-crafted project charter and mission statement will position the employee for such a leadership role in the region.

Physical Requirements and Work Environment

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: The Project Engineer role will require some work on site, both to perform the duties for this role and to provide opportunity for learning and career progression. Often these site visits will be for team meetings, customer meetings, and subcontractor site evaluations.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the primary duties of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary duties.

Moving over rough or uneven surfaces; recurring bending, crouching, stooping, stretching, reaching, or similar activities; recurring lifting of moderately heavy to light items. Transporting of items such as a laptop computer and luggage; driving an automobile, etc.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the primary duties of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary duties.

While performing the primary functions of the job, the employee is regularly exposed a general office environment. During periods of project site visits, the employee will be exposed to outside weather conditions as well as mechanical equipment rooms, which could consist of confined spaces and loud noises. Employee may work in different environments while on various job sites. This job requires work to be primarily performed at a remote office, with some work also on project sites. Project sites are regional and may require up to 50% travel. Travel will occur using an automobile or by airplane to destinations.

Schneider Electric offers a robust benefits package to support our employees such as flexible work arrangements, paid family leave, 401(k)+ match, and more. Click here to find out more about working with us: http://se.com/us/careers.

We seek out and reward people for being straightforward, open, passionate, effective and challenging the status quo. We want our employees to reflect the diversity of the communities in which we operate. We welcome people as they are, creating an inclusive culture where all forms of diversity are seen as a real value for the company. We’re looking for people with a passion for success — on the job and beyond. See what our people have to say about working for Schneider Electric: https://youtu.be/6D2Av1uUrzY.

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