Top Project Engineer Jobs

Develops and manages integrated project baselines, schedules, cost estimates, risk considerations, and change controls. Monitors critical paths, cost and schedule performance, forecasts, budgets, and earned value metrics. Produces variance analyses, trend reports, and corrective-action recommendations while collaborating with project managers, control account managers, and cross-functional teams on complex, regulated technical projects.

Leads capital projects at a food manufacturing facility, managing objectives, schedules, budgets, estimates, bids, contractor contracts, technical studies, equipment needs, and facility updates. Partners with multifunctional teams on safety, food safety, health, and process improvement initiatives. Maintains project databases and supports annual capital planning. Requires engineering expertise, manufacturing equipment knowledge, project scheduling skills, and strong communication, organizational, and leadership abilities.

Provides senior engineering support for rail transit traction electrification and maintenance facility infrastructure. Reviews designs and contract submittals, supports power distribution, traction substations, overhead contact systems, SCADA, safety, grounding, protection, installation, commissioning, and system integration. Performs reliability enhancements, troubleshooting, economic analysis, and stakeholder coordination across agency teams, consultants, contractors, and activation groups.

Assists construction project teams while learning project processes, budgets, cost accounting, invoices, contracts, change orders, scheduling, job-site coordination, quality control, and safety. The intern supports designated projects and develops knowledge of estimating, cost control, contract documents, specifications, and architectural and engineering drawings.

Supports project controls and engineering teams with project reports, plans, calculations, quantity and cost estimates, design file organization, research, data collection, field investigations, and project development tasks. The role is based in HNTB’s Charlotte office and requires a bachelor’s degree in engineering, with Microsoft Office, MicroStation, or AutoCAD knowledge preferred.

Leads complex test equipment engineering projects supporting military aircraft sustainment and production acceptance testing. Responsibilities include managing scope, schedules, costs, risks, requirements, verification and validation; developing technical requirements, statements of work, and proposals; coordinating multidisciplinary engineering teams; managing suppliers and subcontractors; collaborating with military customers; resolving technical issues; and ensuring compliance with safety, regulatory, customer, and contractual requirements.

Leads large capital engineering projects from assessment and process design through budgeting, procurement, construction, commissioning, and startup. Develops equipment specifications, estimates, project plans, and technical requirements; manages contractors, vendors, schedules, costs, and compliance. Troubleshoots production issues, recommends process improvements, supports plant assessments, and ensures adherence to safety, quality, environmental, food safety, and dairy manufacturing standards.

Lead onsite delivery of building automation projects, guide teams of 2–5 engineers, conduct system startups, install and configure software, perform loop checks, calibration, functional testing, troubleshooting, and field programming. Lead customer meetings, maintain customer relationships, train representatives, and support HVAC controls testing. The role requires 100% travel to customer project locations.

Leads multidisciplinary engineering projects with responsibility for technical execution, budgets, schedules, resources, quality control, client coordination, scope management, design reviews, and inter-discipline issue resolution. Oversees engineering deliverables, project procedures, model coordination, team development, and communication of technical risks and decisions. Requires extensive engineering and project management experience, strong leadership, client relationship, communication, and organizational skills.

Coordinates construction projects from planning through closeout, serving as liaison among clients, project managers, subcontractors, vendors, and field teams. Responsibilities include document control, RFIs, submittals, procurement, scheduling, contracts, change orders, payment reviews, safety auditing, issue resolution, and closeout documentation. The role requires collaboration, organization, financial awareness, relationship building, and occasional driving on active construction sites.

Rotates through estimating and operations while coordinating construction projects, subcontractors, vendors, schedules, budgets, permits, insurance, reports, meetings, change orders, materials, and closeout documentation. The role supports preconstruction activities, site operations, client communication, project status reporting, and quality and safety compliance.

Rotational Project Engineer supports construction projects through estimating and operations rotations. Responsibilities include coordinating schedules, budgets, change orders, bids, vendors, subcontractors, permits, insurance, project reporting, meetings, site activities, material deliveries, and project closeout. The role requires strong communication, planning, organization, negotiation, safety awareness, and the ability to manage multiple project priorities.

Rotational Project Engineer candidates complete estimating and operations rotations while coordinating construction projects, schedules, budgets, vendors, subcontractors, permits, insurance, reports, meetings, materials, labor counts, and closeout documentation. The role involves interpreting blueprints and specifications, managing site activities, communicating with clients and project stakeholders, supporting bids and change orders, and ensuring quality, safety, and timely project completion.

Leads traffic engineering assignments involving operations, safety, forecasting, impact studies, signal design, signing, pavement marking, maintenance of traffic, and multimodal improvements. Performs technical analyses, reviews plans and reports, manages QA/QC, coordinates multidisciplinary teams, supports project scopes and budgets, represents the firm with clients and agencies, mentors junior staff, and contributes to business development.

Design and support electrical building systems, including power, lighting, and fire alarm systems. Ensure compliance with codes and standards, develop drawings and specifications, estimate costs, oversee testing and commissioning, troubleshoot issues, and perform construction administration and field investigations. Collaborate with architects, engineers, technical leaders, and senior engineers while attending project meetings and site visits.

Design and support electrical building systems, including power, lighting, fire alarms, and related components. Ensure code compliance, prepare drawings and specifications, estimate costs, support construction administration, oversee testing and commissioning, troubleshoot issues, and conduct field investigations. Collaborate with architects, engineers, technical leaders, and project teams while incorporating energy-efficient solutions and managing design standards, workload, and project scope.

Supports project engineering through planning, documentation, scheduling, database and dashboard development, analysis, and cross-functional coordination. The intern will evaluate database solutions for metric tracking, implement reporting tools, document alternatives and recommendations, and contribute to projects improving efficiency and execution. The role requires strong organization, communication, teamwork, attention to detail, Excel proficiency, and data analysis skills.

Supports project engineering through project planning, documentation, scheduling, database and dashboard development, analysis, cross-functional collaboration, and technical problem-solving. The intern will evaluate database solutions for metric tracking, document findings, support process improvements, and contribute to up to three efficiency-focused projects while meeting customer-focused commitments.

Leads manufacturing engineering projects focused on waste elimination, process improvement, cost reduction, and production system performance. Develops process maps, simulations, time standards, equipment and workstation designs, SAP and MES configurations, and New Product Introduction processes. Manages cross-functional teams, supports facility and workcell startups, and oversees material delivery, storage, line-feed, WIP, and buffer systems. Maintains engineering metrics and supports quoting, Lean initiatives, and continuous improvement.

Leads project development and preconstruction for heavy civil, buried utility, broadband, and infrastructure projects. Evaluates feasibility, constructability, risks, scope, logistics, budgets, schedules, permits, and execution strategies. Coordinates owners, developers, engineers, estimators, business development, and operations teams; supports proposals and client presentations; and facilitates project turnover into construction. The role emphasizes utility infrastructure expertise, conceptual estimating, risk mitigation, and profitable project development.

Supports on-site industrial construction projects by developing and maintaining schedules, leading lookahead and subcontractor coordination meetings, tracking labor, quantities, productivity, and budgets, and producing project reports and forecasts. The role identifies schedule risks and acceleration opportunities, supports cash flow and invoicing, monitors subcontractor performance, and coordinates with field personnel, engineers, superintendents, and project managers. Work is on-site, physically demanding, and may require extended or variable hours, including weekends and holidays.

Own end-to-end delivery of battery energy storage and microgrid projects, from commercial scoping through engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and operations handoff. Manage schedules, budgets, risks, change control, permitting, interconnection, deliverables, commissioning readiness, and project documentation. Coordinate Business Development, Product Engineering, EPC partners, customers, and internal teams while developing repeatable execution processes and forecasting inputs. The role is based in San Francisco with travel to project sites and occasional after-hours work.

Senior Rail Project Engineer responsible for applying railroad engineering principles to support rail design teams and junior engineers. The role provides expertise in railroad operations and maintenance, supports rail projects, prepares plans and reports, and performs quality-control reviews for compliance with AREMA, FTA, and FRA requirements. Responsibilities include work on freight and passenger rail facilities, collaboration with transportation agencies, business development support, and client communication.

Designs highways and roadways, including alignments, drainage coordination, utility relocations, traffic signals, lighting, and maintenance-of-traffic schemes. Prepares plans, specifications, cost estimates, and contract documents; manages interdisciplinary teams and subcontractors; monitors budgets, schedules, and quality control; supports proposals; and coordinates with clients, technical teams, and marketing. Requires a civil engineering degree, NJ PE license, highway design experience, and proficiency with NJDOT, NJTA, MicroStation, and OpenRoads Designer.

Designs and optimizes heating, cooling, district energy, central plant, geothermal, and thermal energy network systems for large-scale building and campus projects. Responsibilities include hydraulic and energy modeling, equipment sizing, controls optimization, piping design, feasibility assessments, code compliance, multidisciplinary coordination, staff mentoring, proposal support, and serving as Engineer of Record. The role requires technical leadership, client and contractor coordination, and application of energy engineering principles to decarbonization projects.