Assistant Project Engineer (Summer Intern)

Assistant Project Engineer (Summer Intern)

Are you searching for a construction company that values teamwork? Would you like the opportunity to constantly learn, thrive, and be challenged to grow on each new construction project? Would you like to be part of a company where your work is respected, and your contributions appreciated? As a Summer Project Engineer Intern, you will have a fantastic opportunity to learn about a career path of engineer, superintendent, or a project manager while gaining the critical hands-on experience. You will be assigned to work on a commercial construction project site, where you will receive ongoing training with a project manager.

At O'Neil, you will gain experience in the following areas :

• Assist superintendent and project manager in creating, updating, and maintaining the project critical path schedule.
• Review the procurement schedule for the project. This involves tracking, expediting, and processing all subcontractor / vendor shop drawings and submittals through the approval process to ensure that equipment and materials are delivered to the job when required.
• Maintain project documentation and expedite to the owner, architect, and engineers for approval. Develop and maintain a thorough understanding of the provisions and requirements of all contract documents, including plans, specifications, owner's contract, subcontracts and purchase orders.
• Assist in the procurement of equipment and materials, and track and expedite their delivery.
• Calculating and maintaining self-performed work quantity and cost information for the purpose of tracking project costs versus budgets and establishing historical cost data.

Skills, knowledge, and expertise :

Benefits :

Physical Demands : Performance of the required duties will require physical ability to use construction personnel hoists, ability to climb ladders and negotiate work areas under construction, when visiting a WEO job site. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Performing this job requires use of hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls, sit, talk and hear and stand throughout the workday.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Work Environment : While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works in one of WEO's California regional offices and on occasion may be required to visit the construction work site where the employee may be exposed to moving mechanical parts, high precarious places, fumes or airborne particles, outside weather conditions and risk of electrical shock. The noise in these work environments is usually moderate to very loud.

Equal Employment : W.E. O'Neil is committed to an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants and will make all employment-related decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability or veteran status.

About W.E. O'Neil Construction :

Building Great Relationships since 1925! 100% employee-owned general contractor. We build nationally, with locations in AZ, CA, CO, IL, TN, and TX. W.E. O'Neil Construction has seen steady growth since its founding in 1925 in Chicago by the O'Neil family. Now 100% employee-owned (ESOP), we embrace people as our number one asset. Our award-winning teams are recognized as industry leaders. Our longevity can be attributed to our excellent staff of professionals, our integrity, our commitment to customer satisfaction, and our ability to embrace technology. Our combination of the financial strength of a large national contractor and the responsiveness of a small company brings the best of both worlds to our clients. Our experience covers virtually every commercial market sector using a broad range of project delivery methods including design-build, design assist, construction management at risk and lump sum bid.