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Job Title
Engineering Coordinator
Job Description Summary
The Engineering Coordinator is a critical support role responsible for coordinating and administering fleet operations, engineering programs, financial processes, and employee support functions for a large national engineering organization. This position serves as a key liaison between field engineers, leadership, vendors, finance, procurement, safety, and vehicle management teams to ensure operational excellence, compliance, and exceptional customer service delivery.
The primary focus of this role is managing a nationwide fleet program, ensuring vehicles remain compliant, safe, cost-effective, and operationally ready to support engineering teams. The Engineering Coordinator oversees vehicle lifecycle management, maintenance tracking, licensing and registration compliance, telematics reporting, fuel management, insurance administration, driver performance monitoring, vehicle procurement, and incident coordination.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities
Fleet Management

• Manage day-to-day fleet operations for a multi-state engineering workforce.
• Track vehicle registrations, licensing requirements, permits, and compliance documentation.
• Coordinate preventive maintenance, repairs, recalls, and vehicle replacement planning.
• Administer vehicle insurance renewals and maintain fleet records.
• Coordinate vehicle acquisitions, assignments, transfers, and offboarding activities.
• Analyze fleet performance, mileage, maintenance costs, fuel usage, and operational trends.
• Partner with Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S), vehicle management teams, and drivers to support incident reporting and corrective actions.
• Communicate maintenance reminders, compliance deadlines, and vehicle-related action items to engineering teams.
• Attend fleet governance meetings and maintain compliance with company and regulatory requirements.

Engineering Operations Support

• Act as a primary support resource for mobile and static engineering teams.
• Manage shared inboxes and respond to operational requests.
• Coordinate onboarding and offboarding of engineering personnel, including vehicles, equipment, badges, uniforms, and system access.
• Support field engineers by resolving operational and administrative issues.
• Maintain engineering records, trackers, and reporting tools.

Financial & Vendor Administration

• Manage purchasing card and travel expense processes.
• Review and audit expenses, receipts, and invoices.
• Support charge account administration and vendor relationships.
• Prepare recurring financial and operational reports.
• Coordinate with accounting, procurement, and finance teams to ensure compliance and timely processing.

Program Coordination

• Support system administration activities within Corrigo and related work order platforms.
• Maintain engineering organizational records, reporting structures, and operational documentation.
• Participate in leadership meetings and support strategic engineering initiatives.

Important Experience

• Minimum of 2 years of experience in an administrative, accounting, operations support, facilities, fleet management, or tenant services role.
• Experience with data entry, reporting, record management, scheduling, customer communications, and managing multiple workflows simultaneously.
• Previous customer service experience with a strong focus on responsiveness, problem solving, and stakeholder support.
• Prior experience in facilities management, property management, fleet operations, commercial real estate, engineering support, or professional services environments preferred.
• Working knowledge of fleet management practices, including vehicle compliance, preventive maintenance programs, telematics, driver monitoring, fuel management, registrations, licensing, and fleet reporting.
• Experience coordinating activities across multiple departments, including operations, finance, procurement, safety, human resources, information technology, and external vendors.
• Strong organizational, administrative, and project coordination skills with the ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Word, along with experience using reporting, tracking, and work management systems.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to build effective relationships across all levels of the organization.
• Experience analyzing data, preparing reports, and maintaining accurate records to support operational decision-making and compliance initiatives.

Success Profile
The ideal candidate is highly organized, proactive, and customer-focused, with a strong ability to manage fleet operations while supporting a fast-paced engineering organization. Success in this role requires attention to detail, strong communication skills, and the ability to coordinate across multiple stakeholders to ensure engineers have the resources they need to operate safely and effectively.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
This job operates on a fully remote basis, supporting the central region/time zone of this portfolio.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to communicate with others and exchange accurate information; operate a computer and other office productivity machinery; move about the workplace; remain in a stationary position for up to 90% of the time; and extend hands and arms in any direction.
OTHER DUTIES
This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive list of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Other duties, responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned at any time with or without notice.
Note: This job description includes the core responsibilities for C&W. These duties may have slight modifications based on the regional location.
Cushman & Wakefield also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health, vision, and dental insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life, and disability insurance programs, and paid and unpaid time away from work. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, Cushman and Wakefield provide eligible employees with competitive pay, which may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, total hours worked, job type, business line, and applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
The compensation that will be offered to the successful candidate will depend on factors such as whether the position is covered by a collective bargaining agreement, the geographic area in which the work will be performed, market pay rates in that area, and the candidate's experience and qualifications.
The company will not pay less than minimum wage for this role.
The compensation for the position is: $29.75 - $35.00
Cushman & Wakefield is an Equal Opportunity employer to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. Discrimination of any type will not be tolerated.
In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA), if you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation in order to apply for a position at Cushman & Wakefield, please call the ADA line at 1-888-365-5406 or email Accommodations@cushwake.com. Please refer to the job title and job location when you contact us.
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