Project Engineer - Real Estate

Responsibilities

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS (IDENTIFY UP TO 6 CORE RESPONSIBILITIES WITH ASSOCIATED JOB TASKS)

Contribute to the engineering and construction efforts for store facilities, ensuring timely and budget-conscious project completion. Create site-specific plans, resolve conflicts, and collaborate with various teams and stakeholders.

Engineering Plans: Create site-specific engineering plans/drawings with strong knowledge on Architectural, Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing (MEP), and Structural engineering and remodel construction timelines with contractors, vendors, and internal installation crews.

Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving: Apply advanced critical thinking and problem-solving skills to address complex engineering challenges and resolve code and physical conflicts involving existing stores and construction projects.

Technical Skills: Demonstrate technical proficiency in Architectural, Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, and Structural engineering. Uphold Engineering/Installation Department procedures and policies, demonstrating strong time management and organizational skills to ensure efficient project execution.

On-Site Oversight: Frequently visit new store construction and larger remodel projects to ensure timely, on-budget progress and follow-up on punch lists.

Collaboration: Work closely with construction/installations teams, store services, vendors, leasing, and stakeholders to ensure proper construction completion dates and project budgeting. Coordinate with Installations for timeline adjustments.

Review Sets: Provide a prompt and technical review of Architectural and MEP sets for accuracy in collaboration with installations.

Software Utilization: Use various related software to ensure project success. Work with leasing on leases, negotiations, timing, and lease/amendment exhibits.

Budget Estimates: Provide prompt and accurate project budget estimates for the leasing team and conduct detailed RFP processes for projects where Sherwin-Williams is performing the build-out, as well as any large capital expense project.

Reporting: Regularly report project timeline milestones and budget impacts.

Peer Support: Provide formal and informal peer support for collaborative learning.

Relationship Building: Create relationships with District Leadership teams in respective regions. Hold monthly construction status update meetings with district teams during new store/remodel projects and ancillary repair escalations. Provide technical engineering assistance when reviewing proposals for your Districts repairs and capital expenses.

Customer Service: Exceed internal customer communication and service expectations.

Landlord Repairs: Handle landlord repair escalations, including sending professionally written certified letters to landlords while working with legal to ensure Lease compliance.

Engineering Problem-Solving: Solve complex engineering problems involving Civil, Fire, Architectural, MEP, and Structural components.

Inquiries Management: Direct Lease administration, Tax, CAM, and Insurance inquiries to the Accounting and or leasing team.

Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company's staff, employees, and business relationships.

Qualifications

FORMAL EDUCATION:

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree in Architecture, Engineering or Construction Management or 5 year of related Real Estate, Construction/Engineering experience.
• Valid driver's license

Preferred:

• Master's Degree in Architecture, Engineering or Construction Management

KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE:

Required:

• At least 3 years of relevant job experience
• Prior experience in construction industry, ideally with retail facilities.
• Organizational and planning skills and the ability to establish priorities and handle many projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
• Good written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to interact and collaborate with all levels of management, contractor, government official and landlords/property owners.
• M365 Suite of Applications

TECHNICAL/SKILL REQUIREMENTS:

Required:

• Generation of store designs and estimates withing an acceptable time frame.
• Creation of new design concepts and specification for site specific and proto-typical stores.
• Resolution of conflicts arising from code/legal issues and /or physical constraints or stores.
• AutoCAD & Revit
• Construction acumen

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS: (TIME SPENT AWAY FROM HOME OR OTHER TYPICAL OFFICE LOCATION)

• 30%

About Us

At Sherwin-Williams, our purpose is to inspire and improve the world by coloring and protecting what matters. Our paints, coatings and innovative solutions make the places and spaces in our world brighter and stronger. Your skills, talent and passion make it possible to live this purpose, and for customers and our business to achieve great results. Sherwin-Williams is a place that takes its stability, growth and momentum and translates it to possibility for our people. Our people are behind the strength of our success, and we invest and support you in:

Life ... with rewards, benefits and the flexibility to enhance your health and well-being
Career ... with opportunities to learn, develop new skills and grow your contribution
Connection ... with an inclusive team and commitment to our own and broader communities
It's all here for you... let's Create Your Possible

At Sherwin-Williams, part of our mission is to help our employees and their families live healthier, save smarter and feel better. This starts with a wide range of world-class benefits designed for you. From retirement to health care, from total well-being to your daily commute-it matters to us. A general description of benefits offered can be found at http://www.myswbenefits.com/. Click on "Candidates" to view benefit offerings that you may be eligible for if you are hired as a Sherwin-Williams employee.

Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case and will impact where actual compensation may fall within the stated wage range. The wage range listed for this role takes into account the wide range of factors considered in making compensation decisions including skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. The wage range, other compensation, and benefits information listed is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws including with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act where applicable.

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