Sr Project Engineer, Central Region

Core Responsibilities and Task:

• Manage and contribute to the engineering and construction efforts for store facilities, ensuring timely and budget-conscious project completion. Oversee direct reports, collaborate with various teams, and handle complex engineering challenges.
• Team Management: Manage, train, and review the performance of direct reports.
• Legal and Budget Assistance: Assist with resolving legal issues, budget concerns, and lease negotiations involving store facilities.
• Status Reporting: Maintain and collaborate on the Construction and Installations Status Report, providing necessary data to the Director of Construction for financial and timeline oversight.
• Productivity Improvements: Pursue productivity improvements within the Engineering team.
• Engineering Plans: Create site-specific engineering plans/drawings and coordinate new store and remodel construction timelines with contractors, vendors, and internal installation crews.
• Conflict Resolution: Resolve code and physical conflicts involving existing stores and construction projects.
• Policy Adherence: Uphold Engineering/Installation Department procedures and policies.
• On-Site Oversight: Frequently visit new store construction and larger remodel projects to ensure timely, on-budget progress and follow-up on punch lists.
• Collaboration: Work closely with construction/installations teams, store services, vendors, leasing, and stakeholders to ensure proper construction completion dates and project budgeting. Coordinate with Installations for timeline adjustments.
• Review Sets: Promptly review Architectural and MEP sets for accuracy in collaboration with installations.
• Software Utilization: Use various related software to ensure project success. Work with leasing on leases, negotiations, timing, and lease/amendment exhibits.
• Budget Estimates: Provide prompt and accurate budget estimates for the leasing team and conduct detailed RFP processes for projects where Sherwin-Williams is performing the build-out.
• Reporting: Regularly report project timeline milestones and budget impacts.
• Peer Support: Provide formal and informal peer support for collaborative learning.
• Relationship Building: Create relationships with District Leadership teams in respective regions. Hold monthly construction status update meetings with district teams during new store/remodel projects and ancillary repair escalations.
• Customer Service: Exceed internal customer communication and service expectations.
• Landlord Repairs: Handle landlord repair escalations, including sending professionally written certified letters to landlords.
• Engineering Problem-Solving: Solve complex engineering problems involving Civil, Fire, Architectural, MEP, and Structural components.
• Inquiries Management: Direct Tax, CAM, and Insurance inquiries to the leasing/admin team(s).

Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company's staff, employees, and business relationships.

FORMAL EDUCATION:

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree in Architecture, Engineering or Construction Management or 8 year of related Real Estate, Construction/Engineering experience.
• Valid driver's license

Preferred:

• Master's Degree in Architecture, Engineering or Construction Management

KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE:

Required:

• Prior experience in construction industry, ideally with retail facilities.
• Organizational and planning skills and the ability to establish priorities and handle many projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
• Good written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to interact and collaborate with all levels of management, contractor, government official and landlords/property owners.
• M365 Suite of Applications

TECHNICAL/SKILL REQUIREMENTS:

Required:

• Generation of store designs and estimates within an acceptable time frame.
• Creation of new design concepts and specification for site specific and proto-typical stores.
• Motivation and development of staff in the face of increased demand for services.
• Resolution of conflicts arising from code/legal issues and /or physical constraints or stores.
• AutoCAD & Revit
• Construction acumen

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS: (TIME SPENT AWAY FROM HOME OR OTHER TYPICAL OFFICE LOCATION)

• 30%