Procurement Engineer

About This Role

Procuring subcontracts is the primary responsibility of this office-based engineering role, which involves bidding, leveling, awarding, and administering trade labor agreements. This position is ideal for candidates with a background in field or project engineering who possess both field knowledge and commercial aptitude. The role contributes field experience and lessons learned to strengthen bid packages, improve bid leveling accuracy, and inform award decisions, with materials and equipment purchasing as a secondary function.

Responsibilities

• Review bid packages using field experience to identify scope gaps, misalignments, and execution risks prior to release
• Contribute lessons learned and firsthand construction knowledge to improve scope coverage and bid package quality
• Build and manage bidder pools; coordinate prequalification, vendor outreach, and RFI responses using BuildingConnected
• Perform bid leveling and gap analysis; evaluate submitted bids against the package and document scope variances
• Prepare award recommendations supported by commercial data and field-informed analysis
• Support subcontract negotiations by contributing cost context and construction perspective
• Assemble and execute subcontract packages including scope, exhibits, flowdowns, insurance, and compliance requirements
• Track post-execution deliverables and hold subcontractors to their commitments professionally and consistently
• Support change management by documenting scope events, gathering pricing, and assessing legitimacy before escalation
• Maintain accurate records of commercial deviations, redlines, and resolutions
• Assist with payment application review; verify amounts billed against the schedule of values
• Maintain WBS-format bid comparisons; track awarded values against the project budget and flag exposure proactively
• Build basis-of-cost documentation: unit rates, allowances, exclusions, and negotiated value rationale
• Assist with change event cost assessments and distinguish legitimate scope additions from commercial claims
• Participate in constructability reviews and preconstruction meetings as an active contributor
• Share field-based lessons learned to inform bid package development and improve trade coordination outcomes
• Support Estimating-to-Operations handoffs by identifying assumptions that may not align with field execution
• Collaborate with project managers and superintendents to surface subcontract issues before they affect field performance

Requirements

• 3 to 6 years of experience in field engineering, project engineering, construction management, or estimating on commercial, industrial, or mission-critical projects