Site Engineering Project Manager

Site Engineering Manager - Commercial Infrastructure Projects

Location:Bangalore (on-site with frequent travel)

About InfraAxis:

InfraAxis is a fast-growing infrastructure company that helps top eCommerce, D2C and quick-commerce brands expand across India. From real estate scouting to complete store fit-outs and facility management, we help our clients expand fast and flawlessly. Our team has delivered 140+ dark stores, retail stores, and kitchens and, offer project and program management as core services.

We are co-founded by C-Suite professionals from top start-ups, with collective experience of 25+ years of industry experience.

Role Overview:

Were hiring a Site Engineering Manager to oversee the technical execution of our commercial interior and infrastructure projects from civil and MEP, cold rooms, fire safety to IT and compliance. You'll be responsible for ensuring work is done to spec, on schedule, and in coordination with site teams, vendors, and clients.

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyze project drawings and specifications to estimate time, cost, materials, and labor.
• Conduct quantity take-offs for materials
• Prepare budget proposals, bid packages, and detailed cost reports.
• Prepare Quotations and Tender Documents
• Develop and Monitor progress of work with respect to Master project schedule
• Analyze project progress and identify potential delays
• Collaborate with stakeholders to optimize project timelines
• Identify risks and recommend cost-effective mitigation strategies.
• Monitor project expenses to ensure cost control.
• Suggest value engineering solutions to optimize costs.
• Monitoring the execution of work at site to ensure alignment to the drawings and specification.
• Timely reminders to all contractors about the delays in schedule
• Ensuring the workability and adherence to standards in the work statement/methodologies submitted by contractors for each item of work and ensuring the alignment to the same at site. Responsible for all site work related documentation for the assigned items of work.
• Anticipate and flag imminent bottlenecks. Take steps to avoid delays. Furnish necessary reports of critical activities and super critical activities to client.
• Advice contractors in enhancing the resource productivity by implementing various work study techniques.
• Monitor procurement of materials, equipment and labour by contractors with respect to the time schedule and advise them suitable measures for improvement.
• Assisting QA/QC in charge in ensuring all quality parameters are met.
• Assisting the safety team in implementing the safety standards at site; provide all support for making job safety analysis.
• Escalating to project manager about all abnormal developments with respect to progress of work, safety, quality, resources etc
• Clarifies specification and continuously liaise with accountable Project Manager internal.
• Monitors construction activity, schedule, milestone and adherence to budgets and initiates actions to minimize non-conformance cost.
• Provide cost saving solutions and negotiate contractor change orders.
• Manages the project's risk management process.
• Implementation of systems requirements in the installation and test plans of the Contractor for the detailed planning and construction phase until final takeover is completed.
• Ensure project construction & safety management plan are fully implemented.
• Interpret layouts, SLDs, and working drawings; guide site teams accordingly
• Supervise execution of civil, electrical, HVAC, plumbing, and safety systems
• Coordinate with vendors, contractors, and landlords on day-to-day site progress

Requirements:

• Diploma / B.E. in Civil or Electrical or equivalent.
• 5-8 years of experience in interior fit-outs / retail infra / QSR / commercial projects
• Strong understanding of site execution, materials, and vendor coordination
• Technical awareness of civil, electro-mechanical, and architectural works
• Excellent organizational and motivational skills
• Outstanding attention to detail and observation ability
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal abilities

Good to Have:

• Experience working with brands like Swiggy, Zepto, Starbucks, Lenskart, Amazon, Flipkart, Big Basket, etc.
• Vendor & contractor network
• Familiarity with tools like AutoCAD, Excel, and project checklists
• Fluent in either English / Hindi, and at least one South Indian language (preferred)