Project Engineer- Real Estate

Company: The Sherwin-Williams Company
Location: Atlanta
Posted on: June 2, 2025

Job Description:

Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company's staff, employees, and business relationships.
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
  
  POSITION REQUIREMENTS
  Required:
  

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• Bachelor's Degree in Architecture, Engineering or Construction Management or 5 year of related Real Estate, Construction/Engineering experience.
  
• Valid driver's license
  
  Preferred:
  
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  • Master's Degree in Architecture, Engineering or Construction Management
    
    Required:
    
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    • At least 3 years of relevant job experience
      
    • Prior experience in construction industry, ideally with retail facilities.
      
    • Organizational and planning skills and the ability to establish priorities and handle many projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
      
    • Good written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to interact and collaborate with all levels of management, contractor, government official and landlords/property owners.
      
    • M365 Suite of Applications
      

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