Area Construction Engineer

Position: 17167 - Area Construction Engineer
Hiring Range: $111775.00 to $181635.00

Full Time or Part Time:

Additional Detail

Description for Candidates:

Lead and guide construction inspection staff and managers to achieve district contract goals for safety, quality, schedule, and budgeting for construction and maintenance contracts. Independently perform and oversee contract construction activities within a geographic region. Identify methods for improvement and make cost effective recommendations that are in compliance with safety, environmental, federal and state standards. Ensure continuous improvement of all aspects of contract construction.

Provide direction, leadership, and professional engineering advice to staff and serve as responsible charge engineer for highway construction functions. Provide management, leadership and direction for assigned District engineering section. Plan, organize and monitor project activities. Provide fiscal management and technical guidance on a wide variety of transportation projects. Train and develop team members.

How you will contribute:

Budgets:
Budgets - Manage budgets to ensure expenditures do not exceed allocations by providing oversight and direction to the development and management of budgets for each functional area.

Communication:
Enhance current outreach efforts both internal and external to VDOT. Promote VDOT's mission to the community, business partners, and other stakeholder groups. Respond to inquiries from the public, DOT officials, CTB members, news media, and local, state, and federal agencies concerning district transportation activities, problems, projects, etc. Collaborate and communicate VDOT initiatives to other government entities. Strengthen relationships with legislators, local leaders, and other stakeholders.

Maintain communication and outreach efforts with legislators, government and planning agencies, media, citizen groups, and a variety of special interest groups concerning project status, progress, successes and challenges.

Construction Project Budgets:
Manage contract construction budgets for all assigned projects to meet performance goals. Coordinate with FHWA in the preparation and review of work orders, NOIs, and claims to validate necessity of work and level of federal participation. Work jointly with residencies within assigned region to determine needs for project managers, inspectors, equipment, and supplies for projects. Conduct on-site field visits to ensure all elements of design and construction are within scope of contract and within established standards and specifications.

Meet with all involved engineering and construction groups as necessary to gain additional information and to ensure understanding of factors relating to projects. Identify costs and benefits related to recommendation implementation and reports findings to management. Consult with District Contract Administrator and District Business Manager to prepare monthly and fiscal year end reports.

Pre-Advertisement Phase and Project Development:
Evaluate project development process to ensure they adequately address constructability and contract lessons learned. Conduct extensive constructability reviews focusing on scheduling. Develop project schedules and establish project time frames. Participate in scoping meetings, field inspections, concurrent engineering meetings, public hearings, field reviews, and pre-ad conferences to identify details for clarification or to be addressed upon discovery along with lessons learned from ongoing and past projects.

Recommend steps to address identified shortcomings. Prepare and submit constructability review reports and checklist. Ensure biddability analysis is performed prior to ad and coordinate with appropriate Scheduling and Contract Division staff on modifications to bid proposal. Review plans and contract special provisions prior to beginning construction work.

Program Management:
Provide leadership and create an environment of high performance, commitment, partnership and support for the achievement of business goals. Organize work unit and assign workload ensuring effective use of human and fiscal resources. Monitor workload assignments such that projects and tasks are completed in support of VDOT programs. Manage time and adjust priorities of tasks. Provide on-going direction to project manager roles.

Establish organizational structure supporting effective project management. Evaluate performance and make adjustments. Optimize resources across projects.

Project Contract Coordination:
Represent VDOT when meeting with outside contractors to include resolving issues of public concern. Work with district and residency staff to communicate all contract issues and work as a team member and leader to resolve problems.

Project Scheduling:
Manage VDOT resources and partner with contractors to facilitate on-time completion of projects. Ensure adequate staff is in place to accomplish work within schedules and guidelines. Conduct periodic assessments to ensure compliance with…