Senior Office Engineer, Maintenance & Operations

Job Description

Job Description

The Work

LAUSD's Maintenance & Operations division manages one of the largest public school facility portfolios in the country. Capital projects are active across the district at any given time, renovations, repairs, alterations, and new construction, all requiring someone who can manage the engineering and administrative side of delivery without being told what to do next.

As Senior Office Engineer, you support Project Managers and OARs across the full project lifecycle from planning and design through construction and closeout. You are reading plans, processing change orders, reviewing schedules, walking sites, managing documentation, coordinating meetings, and keeping projects on track. Two positions are available. Start date is ASAP.

What You'll Own

• Coordination of project planning, design, budget maintenance, scheduling, labor compliance, and closeout activities
• Review and response to RFCs, Change Order Proposals, and Change Directives for quality assurance and merit
• Cost estimation and negotiation support on contractor change orders
• Review and monitoring of contractor payment applications against approved timelines
• Contractor baseline schedule review including critical path analysis and recovery schedules
• Site walks to verify field conditions and develop progress and status reports
• DSA constructability review and compliance with District standards and building code requirements
• Project file and log maintenance: correspondence, invoices, progress statements, change orders, claims, and timesheets
• Progress meeting coordination: agendas, meeting minutes, and action item follow-up
• Claims and change documentation support
• Closeout activities including as-builts, test records, and maintenance of manuals
• Material compliance testing coordination per plans and specifications

Requirements

What You Bring

• 8+ years of full-time professional experience in project or construction management on commercial, public, or educational facility projects valued at $15M or more. Specific projects, dollar values, and your role on each clearly listed on your resume.
• Ability to read, interpret, and evaluate architectural and engineering plans, shop drawings, and proposals. You catch discrepancies between what is drawn and what is being built.
• Change order experience. You have estimated them, negotiated them, and documented them. You know what work costs and you push back when it does not add up.
• Schedule analysis experience. You have reviewed contractor baseline schedules, identified critical path issues, and evaluated recovery schedules.
• Strong written communication. Meeting minutes, status reports, and correspondence that are clear, accurate, and complete.
• Organized and self-directed. You manage your own workload across multiple active projects without waiting to be told what needs attention.
• Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Engineering, or Construction Management (additional experience may substitute on a year-for-year basis)

Preferred

• DSA experience on California public education projects
• BIM experience
• LEED or CHPS certified project experience

Benefits

Compensation: $120,000 - $133,000 annually, depending on experience

• Health, dental, vision (low-cost)
• 401(k) with employer match
• 3 weeks PTO
• ESOP ownership benefit (provided at no cost)

Why MAAS

MAAS has spent nearly 40 years earning the trust of 50+ educational institutions across California, managing over $10B in projects. That track record means the work here is stable, funded, and consequential. You are not chasing the next contract.

As a MAAS employee, you are also an owner. The company is 100% employee-owned through an ESOP, a retirement benefit provided at no cost to you, on top of your salary. MAAS is a profitable, well-run organization and our share price has more than doubled since the plan's inception, with continued growth year over year. Your ownership stake builds the longer you stay, and ESOP participants nationally tend to accumulate 2.5x more in retirement savings than employees at non-ESOP companies.

In an industry not known for prioritizing culture, 96% of MAAS employees say it is a great place to work, and 100% say people genuinely care about each other.