Senior Mechanical Preconstruction Engineer

About Us

Clayco is a full-service turnkey real estate development master planning architecture engineering and construction firm that safely delivers clients across North America the highest quality solutions on time on budget and above and beyond expectations. With $7.6 billion in revenue for 2024 Clayco specializes in the art and science of building providing fast track efficient solutions for industrial commercial institutional and residential related building projects.

The Role

We Want You For Senior Mechanical Preconstruction Engineer

The Senior Mechanical Preconstruction Engineer will participate in all aspects of the preconstruction process for HVAC and Plumbing systems to develop accurate detailed cost estimates with a focus on heavy advanced manufacturing industrial and mission critical projects. This role will be expected to interact with engineers architects consultants subcontractors suppliers a multi-discipline estimating team project supervision and field personnel.

Specific Responsibilities

Periodically attend pre-bid meetings to become familiar with unique project requirements and analyze existing site conditions to determine required scope that is not already indicated.

Review and interpret project documents to determine job-specific material equipment and labor requirements for scope development.

Assist in preparing written scopes of work for subcontracts and suppliers and coordinating mechanical scopes with the work of other trades e.g. civil structural architectural electrical etc.

Participate in pre-proposal design coordination meetings to support the development of pricing documents for conceptual estimates.

Perform quantity survey of mechanical systems and components using digitized software and apply industry standard labor rates e.g. MCAA PHCC etc. to support the development of accurate cost estimates.

Evaluate vendor and subcontractor for conformance with proposal requirements level scopes and identify low cost best value responses while capturing assumptions rationale inclusions exclusions etc.

Assist in the preparation of estimates used for bidding and budgeting purposes including self-performed work participate in internal estimate review process and assist with final recap of estimate for presentation to senior management.

Support project management tasks including budgeting schedule development interim design review change order pricing procurement value engineering and vendor selection based on proposal development.

Coordinate with project teams to evaluate productivity for historical data and schedule cost forecasting purposes.

Perform quantity survey of completed designs and or past projects to support historical cost data collection and analysis.

Requirements

Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering Construction Management or related field or a combination of education including trade schools and professional experience.

5 years experience in construction with 3 years experience estimating mechanical systems i.e. HVAC and Plumbing.

Exhibits inclusive leadership and teamwork behavior and values diverse perspectives from team members.

Demonstrated experience in the successful management of bidding process with a preferred emphasis on heavy advanced manufacturing industrial and mission critical markets.

General knowledge of codes and standards applicable to the design and installation of mechanical systems.

Possesses strong technical writing math and computer skills with proficiency using standard office software applications such as BlueBeam Microsoft Excel Word and PowerPoint to support estimating efforts.

Experience using estimating software with a preference for Trimble products.

Some Things You Should Know

Our clients and projects are nationwide - Travel will be required.

No other builder can offer the collaborative design-build approach that Clayco does.

We work on creative complex award-winning high-profile jobs.

The pace is fast

Why Clayco

2024 Best Places to Work - Crains Chicago Business St. Louis Business Journal Los Angeles Business Journal and Phoenix Business Journal.

2024 ENR Midwest - Midwest Contractor 1.

2024 ENR Top 100 Design-Build Firms - Design-Build Contractor Top 5.

2024 ENR Top 100 Green Contractors - Green Contractor Top 5.

Benefits

Discretionary Annual Bonus Subject to company and individual performance.

Comprehensive Benefits Package Including Medical dental and vision plans 401k generous PTO and paid company holidays employee assistance program flexible spending accounts life insurance disability coverage learning & development programs and more.

Compensation

The salary range for this position considers a wide range of factors in making compensation decisions including but not limited to Education qualifications skills training experience certifications internal equity and location. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.