Manufacturing Engineer, Factory Construction

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Field Execution & Contractor Oversight: Serve as the day-to-day owner's representative on active construction sites. Hold GCs and subcontractors accountable to schedule, quality, and sequencing.
• Schedule & Problem Solving: Own near-term lookahead planning and critical path awareness. Apply first-principles thinking to recover lost time and protect delivery milestones.
• Requirements Partnership: Intake facility requirements by engineering, often driven by machine selection and operational flow.
• Change Management & Documentation: Manage RFIs, submittals, pay applications, and change orders. Proficient in Procore for change order and drawing management, and Bluebeam for markups and document control.
• Design Feedback: Participate in design reviews for current and future phases. Translate field conditions into constructability and sequencing feedback before they become costly problems.
• Commissioning & Turnover: Sequence inspections, testing, and commissioning to avoid downstream delays. Support documentation and turnover packages for regulated manufacturing environments.

Job requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or relevant STEM field — or 4+ years of hands-on field experience in lieu of degree.
• 2–4 years in construction management, capital project execution, manufacturing facilities development or equivalent project management experience.
• Direct field ownership of projects with GC or subcontractor oversight.
• Proficiency in Procore and Bluebeam.
• Willingness to travel up to 50%.