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About Pinterest:
Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we're on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.
Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other's unique experiences and embrace theflexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It's Possible.
At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we're looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we'll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI.
Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here.
The Internal Identity & Access Management (I2AM) team is responsible for critical production infrastructure that provides a foundational notion of Identity and strong authentication and authorization controls across Pinterest. Our backend is primarily written in Golang, Python with some C++ while our frontend tools are written in React and TypeScript. We're looking for an experienced software engineer who will help us build robust tooling to define and evaluate access controls across production infrastructure. A security background is not necessary but ideal candidates will have familiarity with the problems or related spaces, such as Infrastructure or Identity.
What you'll do:
- Help shape our identity and authorization controls for users, services and AI Agents.
- Design, implement, and maintain mission-critical software that will help us deliver robust IAM infrastructure and libraries to our customers.
- Collaborate with a variety of teams to build performant and resilient AAA (Authentication, Authorization, Auditing) platform controls into various high-traffic services including our AI Agents, online/offline data platforms, databases, service mesh (Envoy). and other critical infrastructure components.
- Represent the I2AM team across the Security Organization and with our X-org partners, including Networking, Data Platform, Cloud Platform, Agent Platform and product teams.
- Work with and mentor more junior engineers on the I2AM team.
What we're looking for:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of software development experience.
- A history of building & operating large scale distributed systems.
- Past experience influencing technical architecture and roadmap adoption while working across other teams.
- Experience in some of the following areas is a strong plus:
- Infrastructure provisioning tools (Terraform, Puppet, etc.)
- Identity, Account Security, Authentication/Authorization (OAuth, SAML, RBAC) protocols
- AWS or other public cloud infrastructure, containerization such as Kubernetes
- Familiarity with networking protocols (Application layer)
In-Office Requirement Statement:
- We recognize that the ideal environment for work is situational and may differ across departments. What this looks like day-to-day can vary based on the needs of each organization or role.
- This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times every 6-months and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.
Relocation Statement:
- This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.
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At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.
Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.
US based applicants only$155,584—$320,320 USDOur Commitment to Inclusion:
Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please completethis formfor support.
Job Title: Software Engineer (II)
Location: Chicago IL (Hybrid – Tue, Wed, Thur Onsite for 3 days)
Duration: 6 months contract
Role Overview
We are seeking detail-oriented individuals to support the Search Log Quality (SLQ) systems through a combination of system monitoring, technical debt reduction, and quality assurance. You will play a critical role in maintaining the health of our logging infrastructure, resolving visual element ownership, and helping to reduce the tech debt in our codebase.
Key Responsibilities
Responsibilities may vary according to the designated track; however, the following tasks are representative of the role:
- SLQ Monitoring & Triage: Perform first-level triage for system errors, maintain and enhance SLQ monitors, and conduct audits to standardize filtering.
- Visual Elements (VE) Maintenance: Resolve ownership staleness bugs, update metadata/screenshots for active VEs, and identify/cleanup unused tags.
- Infrastructure & Code Migration: Assist in migrating logging code to new frameworks (e.g., log routing), refactoring C++ logic, and transitioning frontend tools from React to Boq Wiz.
- Quality & AI Verification: Validate AI-generated boilerplate code and VE suggestions, and conduct human evaluations for internal tools like Seeker and Sherlog.
- Documentation: Analyze documentation gaps by grouping common technical questions and creating "canonical bug " collections for training.
Candidate Requirements
To be considered for this role, applicants must possess the following foundational qualifications:
- A Bachelor's degree or a comparable level of practical professional experience.
- At least 3 years of software development experience using one or more languages (or 1 year for those with an advanced industry-related degree).
- 2 years of applied or academic experience working with algorithms and data structures.
Desired Technical Background
- Advanced proficiency in SQL and Go.
- Practical coding experience with at least one of the following: Java, C++, or Kotlin.
- Understanding of distributed systems, RPC infrastructure, multi-threading, and asynchronous programming.
- Proven ability to troubleshoot and identify root causes for production-level issues.
Professional & Interpersonal Skills
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration abilities.
- Resourceful approach to problem-solving in high-velocity environments.
- A proactive mindset and enthusiasm for learning
Russell Tobin offers eligible employees comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance, and hospital indemnity), 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, legal support, auto, home insurance, pet insurance and employee discounts with preferred vendors
About Pinterest:
Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we're on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.
Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other's unique experiences and embrace theflexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It's Possible.
At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we're looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we'll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI.
Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here.
Pinterest's Security team is seeking an experienced Security Software Engineer to help keep our 619 million monthly active users safe from real-world threats. You will build tooling, product enhancements, and work with teams to improve our overall security posture and enhance our secure development lifecycle. We are looking for a candidate with a passion for security and innovation, who will research and develop new solutions to secure our products.
What you'll do:
- Design and build out our rules, processes, and platform for our secure development lifecycle.
- Deliver and review code that is well-documented, tested, and operable.
- Work cross function to architect scalable and secure solutions to a variety of Pinterest's problems.
- Conduct regular security assessments including design reviews.
- Help rework our existing controls to address increased productivity due to AI and new AI threats.
What we're looking for:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of experience in product security, application security, or security related software engineering role.
- Enthusiasm for the constant fight to ensure security and privacy.
- Proficiency in a dynamic programming language such as Python.
In-Office Requirement Statement:
- We recognize that the ideal environment for work is situational and may differ across departments. What this looks like day-to-day can vary based on the needs of each organization or role.
- This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times every 6-months and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.
Relocation Statement:
- This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.
#LI-REMOTE
#LI-JT1
At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.
Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.
US based applicants only$155,584—$320,320 USDOur Commitment to Inclusion:
Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please completethis formfor support.
Work Location: Chicago - Hybrid (Hybrid work: Tues-Thurs in the office. Monday & Friday remote)
Work Schedule: Normal CST business hours, Monday to Friday
Role Overview
We are seeking detail-oriented individuals to support the Search Log Quality (SLQ) systems through a combination of system monitoring, technical debt reduction, and quality assurance. You will play a critical role in maintaining the health of our logging infrastructure, resolving visual element ownership, and helping to reduce the tech debt in our codebase.
Key Responsibilities
Responsibilities may vary according to the designated track; however, the following tasks are representative of the role:
SLQ Monitoring & Triage: Perform first-level triage for system errors, maintain and enhance SLQ monitors, and conduct audits to standardize filtering.
Visual Elements (VE) Maintenance: Resolve ownership staleness bugs, update metadata/screenshots for active VEs, and identify/cleanup unused tags.
Infrastructure & Code Migration: Assist in migrating logging code to new frameworks (e.g., log routing), refactoring C++ logic, and transitioning frontend tools from React to Boq Wiz.
Quality & AI Verification: Validate AI-generated boilerplate code and VE suggestions, and conduct human evaluations for internal tools like Seeker and Sherlog.
Documentation: Analyze documentation gaps by grouping common technical questions and creating "canonical bug" collections for training.
Candidate Requirements
To be considered for this role, applicants must possess the following foundational qualifications:
A Bachelor’s degree or a comparable level of practical professional experience.
At least 3 years of software development experience using one or more languages (or 1 year for those with an advanced industry-related degree).
2 years of applied or academic experience working with algorithms and data structures.
Desired Technical Background
Advanced proficiency in SQL and Go.
Practical coding experience with at least one of the following: Java, C++, or Kotlin.
Understanding of distributed systems, RPC infrastructure, multi-threading, and asynchronous programming.
Proven ability to troubleshoot and identify root causes for production-level issues.
Professional & Interpersonal Skills
Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration abilities.
Resourceful approach to problem-solving in high-velocity environments.
A proactive mindset and enthusiasm for learning
About Ascendco Health
Hospitals today are under greater pressure to optimize health performance than ever before and balancing patients’ physical health with hospitals’ financial health is stressing the system. Ascendco Health is an emerging health tech company that uses a unique blend of data, software, and analytics to digitally transform the way surgical devices are purchased and managed. Fueled by collaboration and inspired by innovation, we take pride in challenging the status quo with energy that accelerates results and enhances patient safety and surgical efficiency.
Summary of the Role
The Client Success Engineer works at the intersection of software implementation, support, engineering, and education. In this role you will be the go to technical expert on how our software is deployed and used in a fast moving, complex, and critical healthcare environment. You will be instrumental in getting our solution successfully deployed, running smoothly, and continuously improving for our clients. Along the way you’ll create and revise technical content that empowers both our clients and internal teams to help themselves spread and drive maximum value from the Ascendco platform.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with our software engineering team to become an expert in our current software modules and new modules as they are developed
- Help with QA, documentation, and training as new modules are developed, deployed, and operationalized
- Be a central part of the communication feedback loop between the software engineering team, internal subject matter experts, and our clients as our software continues to evolve
- Work with client IT departments to communicate technical and security specifications for how our platform is deployed and supported
- Work closely with our client success managers to help with the technical/IT aspects of implementing our platform for clients
- Protect our software engineer’s time by helping our support team with level 2 / complex support requests
- Build documentation and educational materials for how our software is deployed and used
- Spend approximately 25% of your time traveling to work onsite with other Ascenders at client facilities to help with go lives and operationalizing new modules
Requirements
- Very good communication skills all around
- Strong attention to detail and excellent problem-solving skills with a demonstrated ability to self-motivate and follow through on projects
- Curiosity and excitement that computers and software are a “bicycle of the mind”
- Patience and empathy working with people and technology
- Very effective at prioritizing and managing multiple tasks simultaneously, while maintaining focus and achieving successful outcomes
- Capable of efficiently navigating and adapting to changing priorities and deadlines
- Work remotely and in shared tech space
- Passion for continuous learning and improvement
Akkodis is seeking a Platform Software Engineer role is a Full-Time with a client located in Allentown, Cincinnati, Chicago, (Occasionally Onsite). Ideally looking for applicants to have a solid background in embedded systems/Payroll, Python/Django, AWS, API, React. would come as a big plus.
Salary Range: $165k-$190k/Annum + Benefits, The salary may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors.
Key Responsibilities
Customer Collaboration & Developer Relations
- Serve as the primary technical interface for customers, partners, and indirect channel teams.
- Host technical discussions, requirement? Gathering sessions, and architecture reviews directly with customers.
- Provide developer support, guidance, and best practices for integration and implementation.
- Represent the embedded team in developer? Facing demos, product enablement, and partner technical workshops.
- Translate customer needs into actionable engineering tasks, ensuring platform capabilities align with business goals.
Platform Customization & Embedded Engineering
- Lead the design and implementation of custom features, enhancements, and integrations across our platform.
- Develop application? Layer components and service extensions using Python, Django, and REST? Based APIs.
- Build and integrate customer? Facing portal/UI components in React.
- Leverage AWS services to build scalable, cloud-backed integrations.
Architecture, API & Systems Integration
- Own the documentation and development of APIs, SDKs, and interface design documents (IDDs).
- Ensure seamless integration between on?device components, microservices, and customer systems.
Technical Troubleshooting & Tier?3 Support
- Diagnose and resolve complex issues.
- Provide senior? Level technical escalation support for customers and internal teams.
- Lead root?cause analysis and drive long? Term corrective improvements across the platform.
Project Delivery & Leadership
- Lead customer? Specific development initiatives from ideation through deployment.
- Own timelines, deliverables, and technical direction for customization projects.
- Mentor junior engineers and influence cross? Team engineering best practices.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- Expertise in Python, with experience building backend services or integration layers (Django strongly preferred).
- Proficiency in React for developing customer?facing interfaces or partner tools.
- Experience with AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudWatch, IAM, or related services).
- Strong experience with embedded systems development.
- Experience with API design, interface documentation, and integration workflows.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to diverse audiences, including customers and indirect channel partners.
- Proven success in customer-facing engineering, developer support, or solutions engineering roles.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in Developer Relations, technical evangelism, or technical account management.
- Experience supporting indirect channel partners, VARs, ISVs, or system integrators.
- Background in pre?sales engineering, partner enablement, or customer?led solution design.
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BOWA Construction
Project Engineer
Chicago, IL
PRIMARY FUNCTION:
The Project Engineer will play a critical role assisting in project management and construction supervision efforts. As Project Engineer you will assist with managing and coordination of all submittals, cost control, scheduling, reporting, estimating and document control activities at the job site during the construction period. You will also ensure client satisfaction is maintained.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Assist the Project Manager and Superintendent in documenting the planning and scheduling of construction operations and coordinate the production and updating of required schedule networks and printouts.
- Set up Procore for project (or other computerized database system if required by the Owner).
- Where required, assist the Project Manager in establishing the permit requirements for the project.
- Assist in developing the Purchase and Award Schedule for the project.
- Participate in Pre-construction Meetings.
- Prepare change and work orders for issuance by Project Manager.
- Prepare and maintain the material status report. Review and follow material deliveries as scheduled and expedite in conjunction with the Project Superintendent using the Material Status Reports.
- Record/distribute meeting minutes as directed by the Project Manager.
- Update project schedule with input from the Project Manager and Project Superintendent.
- With the Project Manager and Superintendent, review Trade Contractor’s payment applications for payment.
- Assist in the implementation of quality plan for construction activities.
- Maintain and control all engineering records, logs, and files.
- Maintain the engineering set of working project drawings and specifications, keeping them posted and up to date, as well as a historical set of these documents.
- Distribute revised construction documents to all interested parties.
- Assist the Project Manager and Information Services with the set up and updating of the project’s Internet web site, if required for the project.
- Assist the Project Manager in creating the monthly report.
- Participate in lessons learned sessions.
- Assist the Project Manager with preparing the initial and final Project Data Reports.
- Transmit all project related records, including copies of all projects related electronic data, for retention in the approved records storage facility.
- Entering data into and obtaining reports from the Change Management and Cost Reporting Systems for the project.
- Assist with punch list items and project close out.
- Other duties and responsibilities as required.
SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, QUALIFICATIONS, & EXPERIENCE:
- Bachelors’ degree in Engineering or Construction Management.
- 1-4 years of related project engineer experience with a construction or construction management firm preferably on commercial, mixed-use, industrial, or school projects.
- Working knowledge of construction equipment and techniques, drawings, and specifications, building materials and required standards applicable to discipline.
- Ability to assume responsibility and interface well with Project Team.
- Exemplify exceptional customer service and leadership.
- Ability to communicate effectively through writing.
- Ability to process improvement, problem solve, and clearly communicate.
- Possess basic computer skills including Microsoft Office applications.
- Knowledge of Construction Management and industry software (I.e., Procore).
BENEFITS:
- Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance -
- Performance Based Bonuses - % of base salary
- Parental Leave
- Basic Life and AD&D Insurance
- Short Term & Long Term Disability Insurance
- 401(k) with company match
- Paid Vacation, Sick Time, & Holidays.
- Employee Assistance Program - (advocates to help manage and control stress levels and everyday life for you and/or your family)
Please note: This position is not eligible for work visa sponsorship.
This role supports product development, manufacturing engineering, tooling suppliers, and production teams to ensure robust designs, efficient manufacturability, and cost-effective solutions.
Key Responsibilities Design, model, and detail progressive, transfer, and line dies using CAD software (e.g., SolidWorks, AutoCAD, CATIA, NX).
Create stamping process layouts, strip layouts, and material utilization plans.
Conduct formability analysis, draw simulations, and stress analysis to ensure part feasibility.
Collaborate with product engineering teams to refine part designs for manufacturability (DFM).
Develop die specifications, bill of materials (BOMs), and technical documentation.
Support tooling build, trials, debugging, and runoff at both internal and supplier tool shops.
Lead root-cause troubleshooting for die performance issues such as wrinkles, splits, springback, and excessive wear.
Optimize tooling for improved production rate, reduced scrap, and extended tool life.
Work with purchasing and suppliers to evaluate tool quotes, timelines, and feasibility.
Ensure all designs comply with safety standards, quality standards, and customer requirements.
Support APQP, PPAP, and launch activities for new programs.
Provide technical guidance to toolmakers, machinists, and production operators as needed.
Required Skills & Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
3–10+ years of experience in metal stamping, die design, or tooling engineering.
Strong proficiency in 3D CAD and GD&T.
Understanding of stamping processes including blanking, drawing, bending, forming, and restriking.
Knowledge of tool steels, coatings, heat treatment, and die maintenance.
Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, and customer standards.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and root-cause analysis skills.
Experience supporting production in high-volume stamping environments.
Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Preferred Qualifications Experience with simulation software (AutoForm, Pam-Stamp, etc.).
Background in automotive or appliance metal stamping.
Experience with automation, sensors, or in-die detection.
Knowledge of lean manufacturing principles and continuous improvement methodologies.
About Us
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 $7.6 billion in revenue for 2024, Clayco specializes in the "art and science of building," providing fast track, efficient solutions for industrial, commercial, institutional, and residential related building projects.
The Role We Want You For
As a Senior Preconstruction Engineer, you will drive the bidding process for construction projects by crafting precise conceptual and hard dollar estimates, developing proposals, and managing subcontractor bids. You will ensure the accuracy and completeness of all project documents, perform quantity take-offs, conduct constructability reviews, and implement value engineering analyses. Your contributions will be crucial in shaping departmental strategies and fostering continuous improvement.
The Specifics of the Role
- Proposal Preparation: Collaborate with the Preconstruction team to deliver accurate proposals across various business units, including Commercial, Industrial, Institutional, and Residential sectors.
- Quantity Take-Offs: Perform detailed quantity take-offs for specific scopes of work to support accurate estimating.
- Subcontractor Management: Oversee the solicitation process for subcontractor bids, build and nurture relationships with subcontractors, and maintain a comprehensive master list of subcontractors/vendors.
- Bid Evaluation: Prepare and analyze Bid Evaluation sheets to ensure competitive and fair bidding processes.
- Schedule and Conditions Review: Evaluate project schedules, assist in drafting General Conditions, and contribute to the final assembly of estimates for presentation to owners.
- Handoff and Support: Facilitate a seamless transition of estimates, bid information, drawings, and specifications to Project Management, and assist Project Managers with contract negotiations, change orders, and other project needs.
- Historical Data Management: Develop and maintain historical data on unit prices to inform future estimating and bidding processes.
Requirements
- Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Construction Management, Civil Engineering, Architecture, or a related field.
- Experience: 3-5 years of estimating experience in commercial construction, with a strong track record in project bidding and management.
- Technical Skills: Deep understanding of building construction, materials, systems, and market conditions. Proficiency in estimating and quantity takeoff software.
- Software Proficiency: Skilled in Microsoft Office Suite.
- Analytical Skills: Strong conceptual abilities with a knack for working with limited information, and proven technical skills in mathematical calculations.
- Meeting Experience: Experience participating in Preconstruction meetings and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Some Things You Should Know
- No other builder can offer the collaborative design-build approach that Clayco does.
- We work on creative, complex, award-winning, high-profile jobs.
- The pace is fast!
Why Clayco?
- 2025 Best Places to Work – St. Louis Business Journal, Los Angeles Business Journal, and Phoenix Business Journal.
- 2025 ENR Midwest – Midwest Contractor (#1).
- 2025 ENR Top 100 Design-Build Firms – Design-Build Contractor (Top 5).
- 2025 ENR Top 100 Green Contractors – Green Contractor (Top 3).
- 2025 ENR Top 25 Data Center Builders – Data Center Contractor (Top 3).
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!
Compensation
- The salary range for this position considers a wide range of factors in making compensation decisions including but not limited to: Education, qualifications, skills, training, experience, certifications, internal equity, and location. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for the role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. The Clayco Nationwide salary range for this position is approximately $80,000 - $90,000 +/- annually (not adjusted for location).
About Us
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 $7.6 billion in revenue for 2024, Clayco specializes in the "art and science of building," providing fast track, efficient solutions for industrial, commercial, institutional, and residential related building projects.
About Ventana
As part of the Clayco family, Ventana designs, supplies, and installs high-performing curtain wall façade systems. By working closely with the design team, we can ensure a competitively priced façade that is water and airtight and allows for optimal thermal control of the interior space. Traditionally, the façade is one of the major risk factors on any building, and the team at Ventana has a proven track record of taking the risk and delivering superior façade systems that guarantee long-term performance.
The Role We Want You For
Ventana is currently seeking a Cost Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will be assisting in the development and management of the project financial strategy. You will be working directly with the project management team (Direct report to Director of Cost Management) to manage the project budget, costs, change orders, billings and forecasts. You will be responsible for generating and maintaining reports that provide information to different groups, work with the management team to identify variances, risks and maintain quality control processes to improve project cost procedures and ensuring conformity with management's strategy.
The Specifics of the Role
- Works with all project disciplines to ensure understanding of total project cost budget allowances and targets.
- Review project documents and specifications to accurately identify, develop and track request of change orders (General Contractor related), baseline estimates, potential risk exposures while communicating potential impacts to the financial targets, schedule and overall project management process.
- Works closely with the accounting department to ensure the correct integration of all information needed to ensure accuracy in billings, payment applications, change orders, direct cost, labor cost, etc.
- Works closely with the project management team, executive management personnel, subcontractors, as well as occasional contact with clients.
- Responsible for cost engineering, cost estimation, cost analysis, and control activities for projects with significant non-routine requirements or for proposal estimating activities which require a moderate degree of technical skill and experience.
- Ensuring quality, accuracy, consistency, spend profile, performing change management, and transparency in all cost management deliverables.
- Take ownership of the cost control function and ensure integrity of the cost and forecast reporting
Requirements
- Minimum of a Bachelor Business Administration, Engineering, or Construction Management Degree
- Minimum of 2 years in the construction industry
- Knowledge of project development stages, procurement, project controls and construction execution practices is required.
- Working knowledge of applicable computer software such as PMWeb or similar project portfolio management software, dataServ, excel, JDE, Microsoft Bi Variance, etc.
- Effective problem-solving skills.
- Results oriented and deliver on customer commitments.
- PMP certification would be ideal.
Some Things You Should Know
- Our clients and projects are nationwide – Travel will be required.
- No other builder can offer the collaborative design-build approach that Clayco does.
- We work on creative, complex, award-winning, high-profile jobs.
- The pace is fast!
Why Clayco and Ventana?
- 2025 Best Places to Work – St. Louis Business Journal, Los Angeles Business Journal, and Phoenix Business Journal.
- 2025 ENR Midwest – Midwest Contractor (#1).
- 2025 ENR Top 100 Design-Build Firms – Design-Build Contractor (Top 5).
- 2025 ENR Top 100 Green Contractors – Green Contractor (Top 3).
- 2025 ENR Top 25 Data Center Builders – Data Center Contractor (Top 3).
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!
Compensation
- The salary range for this position considers a wide range of factors in making compensation decisions including but not limited to: Education, qualifications, skills, training, experience, certifications, internal equity, and location. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for the role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. The Clayco Nationwide salary range for this position is approximately $70,000 - $80,000 +/- annually (not adjusted for location).
