Procurement Engineer

About This Role

This primarily office-based Procurement Engineer role focuses on subcontract procurement, including bidding, leveling, awarding, and administering trade labor agreements to ensure project cost and schedule performance. It suits a candidate with field knowledge and commercial aptitude, bringing an understanding of subcontractor operations and how trade sequencing affects bids.

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
• Hands-on experience managing or coordinating subcontractors in the field
• Exposure to scope development, bid packages, or subcontract documents