Senior Architect/ Engineer - Federal Healthcare
Procon is a top-ranked construction management and technology consulting firm with 25 years of experience delivering high‑impact projects across the U.S. and worldwide. An ENR Top 100 CM/PM firm for five consecutive years, we specialize in program management, project controls, commissioning, and technology —and offer an excellent platform to grow your career while shaping the future of the built environment.
Procon seeks an experienced Senior Architect/Engineer to serve as the lead technical construction management professional supporting a healthcare modernization program in Pittsburgh, PA.
The Senior Architect/Engineer will support staff throughout design, construction, commissioning, and project closeout. The position will provide technical oversight of construction activities to ensure compliance with approved drawings and specifications, standards, applicable codes, project requirements, quality expectations, budgets, and established schedules.
The ideal candidate will have extensive experience supporting complex healthcare, federal, institutional, or similarly technical construction projects and possess a strong understanding of construction management, architectural and engineering coordination, building systems, quality assurance, and construction administration. This role requires various skills and experience as listed below.
This position does not offer employment visa sponsorship. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship.
Requirements
Qualifications and Skills
- Licensed Professional Architect or Professional Engineer.
- Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Engineering, or a related accredited discipline. Significant directly related experience may substitute for educational requirements where permitted by contract requirements.
- Minimum of six (6) years of combined design and construction experience.
- Experience managing or supporting facility construction projects involving design coordination, construction oversight, cost control, scheduling, and project delivery.
- Demonstrated experience supporting projects of comparable size, complexity, and technical requirements.
- Strong knowledge of construction drawings, specifications, contract documents, and construction administration processes.
- Ability to coordinate and lead multidisciplinary project teams with diverse technical backgrounds.
- Proficiency with construction management software, scheduling tools, and project documentation systems.
- Working knowledge of building systems, applicable codes, scheduling, budgeting, cost management, and project controls.
- Experience with healthcare, medical facility, hospital, federal, or similarly complex construction projects preferred.
- Familiarity with VA Technical Information Library (TIL), healthcare facility requirements, OSHA standards, and Joint Commission requirements preferred.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Lead construction management and project oversight activities throughout design, construction, commissioning, and closeout.
- Monitor project schedules, budgets, milestones, phasing, and overall construction progress.
- Review construction drawings, specifications, RFIs, submittals, change requests, and other project documentation.
- Perform and oversee field inspections to ensure compliance with contract requirements, quality standards, and applicable codes.
- Identify construction deficiencies, design conflicts, schedule risks, and other project issues and recommend corrective actions.
- Coordinate with contractors, architects, engineers, facility personnel, and project stakeholders to support successful project delivery.
- Conduct design and constructability reviews and provide technical recommendations.
- Review contractor payment applications, change orders, cost forecasts, and schedule impacts.
- Support testing, commissioning, project acceptance, and closeout activities.
- Prepare project reports, maintain documentation, facilitate meetings, and track action items through resolution.
Physical Requirements
This position requires regular onsite presence in an active construction environment. The employee must be able to perform the essential functions of the position, with or without reasonable accommodation, including:
- Walking and standing for extended periods while performing site observations and inspections.
- Navigating active construction areas, including stairs, uneven surfaces, temporary walkways, and varying elevations.
- Occasionally bending, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, and climbing as necessary to observe construction activities.
- Accessing mechanical, electrical, utility, process, and other construction areas as required.
- Wearing required personal protective equipment (PPE) and complying with all applicable site safety requirements.
- Working in indoor and outdoor environments with exposure to typical construction-site conditions, including noise, dust, weather, and temperature fluctuations.
- Occasionally lifting and carrying up to 25 pounds.
Benefits
Salary commensurate with experience.
Interested and qualified candidates please submit a cover letter and a resume.
Procon offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package, including full medical/dental insurance and 401(K) plan. Procon is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other protected factor
Skills
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- BA or BS degree in a construction, architecture, or engineering related field is required. It is required that the individual have a minimum of 6 years of experience in both design and construction with a focus on medical facilities.
- Excellent communication skills with field and office personnel.
- Fluent in project management principles and how to implement Project Management principles.
- Ability to analyze all relevant project-related information and communicate project status and major issues in writing or verbally.
- Ability to quickly understand and master the requirements of the local state and federal jurisdictions and the requirements of each in relation to this project.
- Possess the knowledge of construction contract documents including front end and technical specifications and drawings to readily understand and assess the requirements.
- Have the skillset and a working knowledge of engineering services, building codes, budgeting and scheduling to lead to the project’s success.
- Possess the skillset and competency to supervise and manage personnel of diverse skillsets.
- Interfaces with clients to define project requirements.
- Reviews schedule, aligns project work plan and deadlines with requirements.
- Monitors on-site processes, procedures, and systems for compliance with construction drawings, security requirements, and code compliance.
- Coordinates and monitors the completion of activities in all phases of the project cycle.
- Responsible for the engineering analysis, development, design of and the preparation of complete plans and specifications for new work and improvements.
- Provides technical oversight and evaluation concerning all engineering disciplines as they pertain to all project work.
- Independently responsible and accountable for determining the action necessary in the development and completion of design projects, coordination of a project staff which may include architects, engineers, engineering technicians, draftsmen, and clerk/typists and review of the final contract documents.
- Surveys existing job conditions and confers with requesting medical center personnel to determine exact scope of project, phasing, impact on other medical center services and other specific design requirements.