Healthcare Project Engineer

The project engineer will support the delivery of healthcare capital improvement, renovation, expansion, and new construction projects as part of an owner’s representative team. Working closely with project managers, consultants, contractors, and client stakeholders, the project engineer will assist with project coordination, documentation, cost and schedule tracking, design and construction administration, and project closeout.

The ideal candidate has experience supporting healthcare, hospital, pharmaceutical, laboratory, life sciences, or other technically complex construction projects and is comfortable working in active and occupied facilities.

Responsibilities

• Support project managers throughout planning, design, procurement, construction, commissioning, turnover, and closeout.
• Coordinate with architects, engineers, contractors, consultants, vendors, facilities teams, and client stakeholders.
• Assist in monitoring design and construction activities for compliance with contract documents, project requirements, quality standards, and client objectives.
• Maintain and track project documentation, including RFIs, submittals, change requests, meeting minutes, action items, logs, drawings, specifications, and project correspondence.
• Assist with tracking project budgets, forecasts, purchase orders, change orders, invoices, pay applications, and other project controls.
• Monitor project schedules, milestones, deliverables, and outstanding action items.
• Review drawings, specifications, submittals, RFIs, and contractor documentation and coordinate responses with the appropriate project team members.
• Support project meetings, prepare meeting minutes, and follow up on assigned actions and deliverables.
• Assist with bid packages, contractor coordination, procurement activities, and contract administration.
• Conduct site observations, documenting construction progress, field conditions, potential issues, and coordination needs.
• Support construction activities within active healthcare facilities while helping minimize impacts to patients, staff, facility operations, and continuity of care.
• Assist with coordination of utility shutdowns, equipment installation and relocation, commissioning, inspections, phased occupancy, punch lists, and project turnover.
• Identify potential project risks or conflicts and work with the project manager and project team to develop appropriate solutions.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with clients, consultants, contractors, vendors, and other project stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, Building Sciences, or a related field.

• 3+ years of relevant construction, engineering, or project coordination experience, preferably supporting healthcare, hospital, pharmaceutical, laboratory, life sciences, or similarly complex projects.

• Experience supporting projects through design and construction phases.

• Working knowledge of construction documents, RFIs, submittals, change management, cost tracking, scheduling, and project controls.

• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to identify and escalate project issues.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and construction/project management software.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting an owner’s representative, program management, construction management, or project management team.
• Experience with renovation or construction projects in active or occupied healthcare facilities.
• Familiarity with healthcare construction considerations, including Infection Control Risk Assessment (ICRA), Interim Life Safety Measures (ILSM), infection prevention, commissioning, phased construction, and facility turnover. These healthcare-specific requirements are also reflected in your existing healthcare project manager.
• Experience with Microsoft Project, SharePoint, Procore, Bluebeam, or similar project/construction management platforms.
• EIT, LEED Green Associate/AP, CMIT, or other relevant certification is a plus.

This position is not eligible for employment sponsorship.

This position is not eligible for sponsorship.

Compensation Range:

STV offers the following benefits • Health insurance, including an option with a Health Savings Account • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care and Transit and Parking where applicable) • Disability insurance • Life Insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment • 401(k) Plan • Retirement Counseling • Employee Assistance Program • Paid Time Off • Paid Holidays • Back-Up Dependent Care • Parental Leave • Continuing Education Program • Professional Licensure and Society Memberships

STV is committed to paying all of its employees in a fair, equitable, and transparent manner. The listed pay range is STV’s good-faith salary estimate for this position. Please note that the final salary offered for this position may be outside of this published range based on many factors, including but not limited to geography, education, experience, and/or certifications.

Not sure this role is the perfect match? We encourage you to apply if STV’s work and values resonate with you. We know great candidates don’t always meet every qualification, and research shows women and people of color are less likely to apply unless they do. At STV, we believe strong talent comes from a wide range of backgrounds, and your skills and experience may align with this or another opportunity as we continue to grow.