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
- Working knowledge of contract structure: scope of work, flowdown clauses, insurance requirements
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel; familiarity with BuildingConnected, Procore, or equivalent platforms is a plus
- Strong written communication and attention to detail
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
Important Details
About the Company
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 $8.1 billion in revenue for 2025, Clayco specializes in the "art and science of building," providing fast track, efficient solutions for mission critical, industrial, life sciences, power & energy, aviation, commercial, institutional, residential and sports & entertainment related building projects. Clayco was recognized as a Best Place to Work by the St. Louis Business Journal, Los Angeles Business Journal, and Phoenix Business Journal in 2025, and ranked #1 Midwest Contractor by ENR Midwest in 2025, among other accolades.
