About Us
Clayco is a full-service, turnkey real estate development, master planning, architecture, engineering, and construction firm that safely delivers clients across North America the highest quality solutions on time, on budget, and above and beyond expectations. With $7.6 billion in revenue for 2024, Clayco specializes in the "art and science of building," providing fast track, efficient solutions for industrial, commercial, institutional, and residential related building projects.
The Role We Want You For
As a Senior Electrical Preconstruction Engineer, you will drive the bidding process for electrical construction projects by crafting precise conceptual and hard dollar estimates, developing proposals, and managing subcontractor bids. You will ensure the accuracy and completeness of all electrical project documents, perform quantity take-offs, conduct constructability reviews, and implement value engineering analyses. Your contributions will be crucial in shaping departmental strategies and fostering continuous improvement.
The Specifics of the Role
- Applies the principles of construction management to provide high level support to the project staff to ensure quality and timely execution of all phases of design/build projects.
- Evaluate the invitation to Bid (ITB) scope pursuit projects.
- Monitor bids for subcontractor outreach.
- Estimate internal electrical take off.
- Evaluate and recommend bids for subcontractors.
- Resolve issues between field team and preconstruction efforts.
- Assist with electrical take offs, change orders, and owner requests.
Requirements
- Requires a Bachelor’s degree (Construction Management, Construction Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field) or foreign degree equivalent.
- 2 years of relevant experience.
- 2 years of experience with estimating and project management experience.
- 2 years of experience with interpreting technical drawings and scope of work.
- 2 years of experience with constructability review of technical documents.
- 2 years of experience with including drawings and specifications.
- In addition, the position requires domestic travel up to 5% to visit project sites.
Some Things You Should Know
- No other builder can offer the collaborative design-build approach that Clayco does.
- We work on creative, complex, award-winning, high-profile jobs.
- The pace is fast!
Why Clayco?
- 2024 Best Places to Work – Crain’s Chicago Business, St. Louis Business Journal, Los Angeles Business Journal, and Phoenix Business Journal.
- 2024 ENR Midwest – Midwest Contractor (#1).
- 2024 ENR Top 100 Design-Build Firms – Design-Build Contractor (Top 5).
- 2024 ENR Top 100 Green Contractors – Green Contractor (Top 5).
Benefits
- Discretionary Annual Bonus: Subject to company and individual performance.
- Comprehensive Benefits Package Including: Medical, dental and vision plans, 401k, generous PTO and paid company holidays, employee assistance program, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, disability coverage, learning & development programs and more!
Compensation
- The salary range for this position considers a wide range of factors in making compensation decisions including but not limited to: Education, qualifications, skills, training, experience, certifications, internal equity, and location. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.