Entry Level Construction Project Engineer - Buildings

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Your Impact:

At Jacobs, our Program Management and Construction Management (PM/CM) team works seamlessly with clients by delivering projects and programs to achieve our clients’ goals. If you’re interested in a long and rewarding career working with the industry’s best and most innovative professionals on ENR's #1 Construction Management-for-Fee firm, then Jacobs is where you belong!

We are looking for a driven and collaborative client-focused Entry Level Project Engineer to grow with our team in Iowa City, IA. In this role, you’ll support skilled project management to help reduce the costs of delivering projects and adding value to the business by applying proven project management techniques.

As a Project Engineer based at a client site, you’ll have an opportunity to coordinate active projects and the progression of design and construction process. You will participate in coordination meetings and follow projects from conception through completion. You will provide support to the Project Manager by helping develop and maintain project cost/change controls, project budget, and change order estimates/negotiations, document control, scheduling, and RFI’s. You’ll be tasked with ensuring the project moves ahead to completion according to client standards. Through this role you will have the opportunity to work on multiple fast-moving projects and larger, long-scheduled projects.

Design your career with a company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow, and succeed.

Here’s What You’ll Need:

• Knowledge of pre-design and pre-construction, delivery systems, and components
• Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Construction, Engineering or related discipline
• Experience with construction document controls software or applications
• 0 -2 years of experience working on large building construction or civil projects
• Ability to work onsite during the week at client site

Ideally, You’ll Also Have:

• Prior experience with construction sites in healthcare, education, and/or public buildings
• Ability to review construction contract document and drawings to establish base scope and the ability to analyze and track changes to project scope

No sponsorship is available for this position.

At Jacobs, we’re partnering across the globe to create the best project outcomes by maximizing the design, digital technology, and support capabilities of our Global Integrated Delivery (GID) teammates. By joining Jacobs, you’ll commit to supporting and engaging with these teams, as we work to build a company like no other.

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At Jacobs, we’re challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world’s most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good. With $13 billion in revenue and a talent force of more than 55,000, Jacobs provides a full spectrum of professional services including consulting, technical, scientific and project delivery for the government and private sector.