Real Estate Project Engineer

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Responsibilities:

• 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.