Project Engineer, Civil Engineering

Salary:

$93,953.60 - $

33 N. High Street, Columbus, OH 43215

• Medical, Vision, Dental, Supplemental and Life Insurance
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Discounts
• COTA Bus Pass
• Wellness Initiatives
• On-Site Chair Massage
• On-Site Health Coach
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Student Loan Repayment Program
• Public Pension through OPERS & Ohio Deferred Compensation

COTA's Project Engineer serves as an engineering professional responsible for administering and overseeing large Federal Transit Administration (FTA)–funded capital projects. This position directs and coordinates highly complex professional engineering activities associated with the planning, design, resident engineering during construction, and closeout of transit capital improvement projects ranging from $25 million to $500 million in total program value. The Project Engineer serves as the agency's owner's representative ensuring compliance with FTA grant requirements, federal regulations, and applicable state and local standards.

Performs duties that advance COTA's Strategic Plan and reflect the organization's core values of safety, empowerment, accountability, teamwork, and service, and support the mission of Moving Every Life Forward.

• Serves as Project Engineer for Federal Transit Administration (FTA)-funded transit capital projects, including transit facilities, maintenance facilities, stations, guideways, systems infrastructure, and related assets.
• Provides professional engineering oversight across the full project lifecycle, including planning, environmental clearance, conceptual development, preliminary engineering, final design, procurement, construction administration, testing, commissioning, start-up, closeout, and transition to operations and maintenance.
• Administers engineering aspects of FTA-funded capital projects to ensure delivery within approved scope, schedule, budget, quality, safety, compliance, and long-term asset performance requirements.
• Supports procurement and pre-award contracting activities, including development of scopes of work, technical specifications, independent cost estimates, proposal evaluations, consultant selection, contract negotiations, and contract modifications.
• Provides technical leadership and serves as the owner's engineering representative for consultants, contractors, construction managers, project teams, agency staff, and other technical contributors engaged in complex, multi-disciplinary transit capital projects.
• Ensures engineering decisions, technical recommendations, project delivery approaches, and design solutions align with agency objectives, regulatory requirements, industry best practices, constructability considerations, and long-term asset performance goals.
• Reviews, approves, or directs the preparation of engineering plans, specifications, cost estimates, schedules, technical reports, design changes, RFIs, submittals, value engineering proposals, change requests, testing results, commissioning documentation, and other project deliverables.
• Provides engineering oversight during construction, including resolution of field conditions, construction quality issues, substantial completion activities, final closeout, and transition to operations and maintenance.
• Coordinates with Project Controls personnel to ensure project schedules, budgets, forecasts, risk registers, and performance reporting accurately reflect project conditions and support effective project management.
• Identifies, evaluates, and mitigates engineering, design, construction, field condition, and project delivery risks related to constructability, cost, schedule, safety, regulatory compliance, and long-term asset performance.
• Ensures engineering activities comply with applicable FTA…