WHY REMOTE PROJECT ENGINEER EXISTS
BUILT TO SOLVE
A REAL CONSTRUCTION PROBLEM
Remote Project Engineer was created to give contractors practical project-engineering support behind the field team — helping manage submittals, RFIs, document revisions, change-order support, work plans and closeout so your PM and Superintendent can stay focused on running the project.
Built from real construction experience. Designed around the way contractors actually work.
SUBMITTAL MANAGEMENT
We build the submittal register, coordinate vendors and suppliers, process packages, track reviews, manage revisions and keep approvals moving through final action.
PROJECT ENGINEERING SUPPORT
We manage the project-engineering workload behind your field team — RFIs, document revision control, change-order support, work plans, closeout and project coordination.
DEDICATED PROJECT ENGINEER
One assigned RPE Project Engineer stays with your project, supporting your PM and Superintendent with continuity, follow-up, documentation and day-to-day administrative control.
PROJECT FINANCIAL SUPPORT
We help organize project financial documentation, payment applications, cost records, change-order backup, commitments and supporting information so your PM has a cleaner picture of project costs and billing.
BUILT FROM THE DIRT UP
25 Years of Heavy Civil, Mechanical & Commercial Construction Reality.
Most construction administration fails because the person typing the paperwork has never smelled fresh asphalt, set a string line, or answered to a furious superintendent on a Tuesday morning.
I spent 25 years working through every tier of commercial, heavy civil, and wastewater construction. I started as an entry-level laborer at 21, working my way up to journeyman, leadman, project engineer, and senior project manager.
Across every project, the breakdown is identical:
Project Engineers drown in document mechanics. They get hired to assist the field, but spend 50 hours a week trapped behind screens deciphering spec manuals, chasing delinquent trade cuts, and typing logs.
When a PE gets good at it, they get promoted or leave—leaving the job trailer back at square one. Meanwhile, Project Managers are forced to abandon their job sites to type RFIs, balance Schedule of Values math, and chase compliance at midnight.
Remote Project Engineer breaks that cycle.
We are not an overseas call center or generic freelancers. We provide a hardened, institutional project engineering desk backed by real American construction experience. We know what an unpriced drawing bulletin costs a job, why an architect’s review clock must be defended, and how to assemble an AIA pay application that gets funded without delay.
Your field team builds the dirt and steel. We run the administrative engine behind them.
JAMES E. ORSILLO ~Founder & Director of Operations
Built by a Construction Professional. Not a Staffing Agency.
Remote Project Engineer was founded on 25+ years of hands-on construction experience across heavy civil, mechanical, commercial, and wastewater projects.
We understand the pressure on Project Managers and Superintendents because we’ve worked in those positions. Our back-office support is designed around real construction workflows—not generic administrative staffing.
Built from field experience. Focused on project execution.
YOUR TEAM RUNS THE PROJECT
WE RUN THE WORK BEHIND IT
BUILT FROM THE FRUSTRATION OF MANAGING CONSTRUCTION
Remote Project Engineer was born from a problem I experienced repeatedly throughout my career as a Senior Construction Project Manager.
I hired Project Engineers to help manage the administrative workload. Smart people, often fresh out of school, but with little practical construction experience.
Before they could contribute, I had to teach them the fundamentals. How to navigate Procore. How to build a Master Submittal Register. How to read specifications. How to prepare a professional transmittal. How to communicate with subcontractors and understand the chain of command.
Weeks later, I would sometimes receive incomplete work that required another round of explanations, corrections, and training.
I call it the Three-Times Problem.
You spend time explaining the assignment. You spend more time reviewing what comes back. Then you spend even more time correcting it.
Eventually, you reach the point where you say, “I’ll just do it myself.”
That’s exactly what happened. And every hour spent correcting administrative work was another hour taken away from actually managing construction.
WE BUILT THE SUPPORT SYSTEM I WISHED I HAD.
I didn’t need another employee to supervise. I needed a dependable project-engineering team that already understood the work.
A team that knows what a submittal register is, how Procore operates, why document control matters, and how professional construction communication works.
A team that understands urgency, accountability, attention to detail, and the boundaries between administrative support and the contractor’s management authority.
Most importantly, I wanted a team that could take direction once—and carry that direction forward.
If your company wants a different transmittal format, we change it. If you have a specific cover sheet, naming convention, or approval procedure, we adopt it, document it, and apply it consistently.
You shouldn’t have to explain the same correction nineteen times.
That’s why Remote Project Engineer is built around documented operating standards, defined responsibilities, internal quality control, and repeatable project workflows.
Our job is to take ownership of the administrative production process, correct our own work, and deliver organized, professional documentation that’s ready for your review.
We’re not here to become another responsibility on your desk.
We’re here to take responsibilities off it.
YOUR TEAM RUNS THE PROJECT. WE RUN THE WORK BEHIND IT.
Remote Project Engineer was created to give construction managers the support I always wanted: a capable back-office operation that understands the job, respects the project team, and gets the work done without requiring another full-time employee to train and supervise.
BUILT FOR U.S. CONTRACTORS
YOUR PM HAS A PROJECT TO RUN
GIVE THEM THE CAPACITY TO RUN IT
You don’t always need another employee. Sometimes you simply need the right project-engineering workload taken off your team’s desk. Choose the support your project needs and let your PM get back to managing the project.
SUBMITTAL MANAGEMENT
We build the submittal register, coordinate vendors and suppliers, process packages, track reviews, manage revisions and keep approvals moving through final action.
PROJECT ENGINEERING SUPPORT
We manage the project-engineering workload behind your field team — RFIs, document revision control, change-order support, work plans, closeout and project coordination.
DEDICATED PROJECT ENGINEER
One assigned RPE Project Engineer stays with your project, supporting your PM and Superintendent with continuity, follow-up, documentation and day-to-day administrative control.
PROJECT FINANCIAL SUPPORT
We help organize project financial documentation, payment applications, cost records, change-order backup, commitments and supporting information so your PM has a cleaner picture of project costs and billing.
AMERICAN OWNED & OPERATED · BUILT FOR U.S. CONSTRUCTION
Remote Project Engineer is led by an experienced U.S. construction Project Manager and built around the way American contractors actually manage projects.
Your project remains under your control.
Your PM and Superintendent run the job.
RPE handles the assigned work behind them.