Senior Resident Engineer​/Risk Manager

Overview

Carollo Engineers is a leading engineering firm dedicated exclusively to water. For over 90 years, we've specialized in the planning, design, and construction of water, wastewater, stormwater, and reuse facilities, bringing innovative and sustainable solutions to the water sector's most complex challenges.

We work with water agencies, municipalities, utilities, research organizations, and private companies across various industries, including technology, manufacturing, and beyond. These clients choose Carollo because we employ some of the most knowledgeable and experienced professionals in the world. When you join our team, you'll work alongside industry leaders who are advancing the science of water, protecting public health, and building resilient communities.

Carollo's vision is to be the best water consulting firm and the best place for you to build your career. If you're passionate about making a difference in this critical field, we invite you to explore a career with Carollo.

• Maintain visibility into the overall health, progress, and potential risks of multiple active projects.
• Participate in project, construction, coordination, and client meetings to stay informed of key issues, decisions, and project developments.
• Coordinate with on-site representatives, project managers, technical teams, and other internal stakeholders to understand construction activities and areas requiring additional attention.
• Monitor interactions and interfaces among clients, contractors, design teams, and other project stakeholders to identify potential coordination gaps or project concerns.
• Apply field experience and engineering judgment to proactively identify construction, technical, staffing, contractor, and project delivery risks before they negatively impact project execution.
• Provide project leadership with timely, objective insight into emerging concerns, areas requiring additional attention, and potential risks.
• Review contractor proposals, RFIs, submittals, design changes, and other technical and construction documentation to identify gaps, constructability concerns, risks, and potential impacts to project execution.
• Provide particular attention to engineering services during construction, identifying areas where additional technical support, coordination, or follow-through may be required.
• Evaluate project issues within the context of the applicable delivery method, particularly progressive design-build, with an understanding of how owner, designer, and contractor responsibilities interact throughout project delivery.
• Support project teams in evaluating construction-related issues and determining when additional technical review or leadership attention may be appropriate.
• Provide practical, objective observations and recommendations while maintaining strong working relationships with internal teams, clients, contractors, and field personnel.
• Clearly document and communicate project observations, potential risks, follow-up items, and areas requiring additional attention.
• Maintain awareness across multiple projects simultaneously and recognize recurring or broader project delivery concerns when appropriate.
• Travel periodically to active project sites to observe field conditions and maintain firsthand knowledge of project execution, anticipated to be approximately two site visits per month.
• Review contractor’s CPM baseline schedule and monthly updates

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Mechanical, Structural Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• 10+ years of relevant engineering experience, including meaningful field or construction-facing experience.
• Direct project experience with progressive design-build delivery.
• Demonstrated experience supporting projects through the construction phase and an understanding of how engineering decisions affect field execution.
• Experience reviewing RFIs, submittals, contractor proposals, design changes, and other construction-related technical documentation.
• Working knowledge of project delivery processes and the relationships among owners, designers, contractors, and construction teams.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and assess potential construction and project delivery risks using sound engineering judgment and field experience.
• Ability to recognize issues requiring additional attention or escalation and communicate those concerns clearly and constructively.
• Ability to maintain a broad view across multiple active projects while recognizing important…