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Position Summary
Our customer, an EPC Company, is establishing a formal Design-Build division as part of its long-term strategic expansion into integrated project delivery.
The Design-Assist Project Engineer is a professional-level position responsible for executing the preconstruction, design coordination, and technical-commercial activities associated with this new division.
This role is created to operationalize the corporate growth strategy established by executive leadership. The position functions under the direction of the President & CEO and does not set corporate policy or strategic direction.
Organizational Positioning
1. Preconstruction & Design-Assist Execution
Demand For HR only uses AI in the sourcing of candidate profiles, of people who do not apply directly. We do not use AI in the assessment of candidates in the Recruitment lifecycle.
Our customer, an EPC Company, is establishing a formal Design-Build division as part of its long-term strategic expansion into integrated project delivery.
The Design-Assist Project Engineer is a professional-level position responsible for executing the preconstruction, design coordination, and technical-commercial activities associated with this new division.
This role is created to operationalize the corporate growth strategy established by executive leadership. The position functions under the direction of the President & CEO and does not set corporate policy or strategic direction.
Organizational Positioning
- Reports directly to the President & CEO
- Operates as a professional engineer-level role
- Does not supervise executives
- Supports revenue execution within executive-approved strategy
- Transitions awarded projects to Operations and Project Management leadership
1. Preconstruction & Design-Assist Execution
- Participate in early design coordination meetings
- Review drawings and provide constructability feedback
- Support value engineering initiatives
- Coordinate with consulting engineers and design teams
- Assist in developing preliminary electrical system concepts
- Assist in preparation of design-build proposals
- Develop conceptual budgets and scope narratives
- Support technical portions of RFQ/RFP responses
- Participate in client and GC meetings
- Prepare quantity take-offs
- Develop conceptual cost models
- Support pricing analysis within approved frameworks
- Provide input to executive leadership prior to submission
- Support scope clarification at award stage
- Coordinate with Project Managers for execution transition
- Identify procurement strategy considerations
- Support early project planning
- Assist in building standardized design-build workflows
- Contribute to internal process documentation
- Support implementation of BIM and coordination tools
- Help develop preconstruction templates
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or construction engineering
- Professional Engineer (PE) Licensed in the state of California
- Experience in electrical design-assist or design-build environments
- Experience with conceptual estimating
- Familiarity with NEC and California electrical code
- Strong communication and client-facing skills
- Experience working with general contractors and developers
- Number of design-assist pursuits supported
- Design-build projects secured
- Preconstruction margin improvement
- Value engineering savings achieved
- Early-stage pipeline development
Demand For HR only uses AI in the sourcing of candidate profiles, of people who do not apply directly. We do not use AI in the assessment of candidates in the Recruitment lifecycle.