As a utilities engineer, you’ll review construction improvement plans to identify utility conflicts and collaborate with utility owners to resolve relocation issues, addressing cost and schedule impacts for transportation infrastructure projects. You’ll track and update project charts to ensure utility relocations remain on schedule, and ensure all dependent utilities are notified. The utilities engineer reports to the project manager.
Responsibilities
• Develop a utility conflict matrix to manage project activities.• Collaborate with design engineers to minimize utility conflicts, including revising transportation improvement plans.• Prepare agreements between utility companies and client partners.• Develop utility correspondence logs for active projects and track utility correspondence due dates, downloads, and responses for major request items prior to scheduled due dates.• Track and update project charts to ensure that utility relocations are on schedule and all dependent utilities are notified.
Qualifications
• Bachelor of Science in Construction Management, Civil, Environmental or a related engineering discipline.• Professional Engineer (PE) license.• Minimum four years of construction inspection experience.• Ability to read and interpret construction plans and specifications.• Proficiency in MicroStation or ORD software.• Must have a valid driver's license with a good driving record.• This field job primarily operates in outdoor work environments that may include exposure to inclement weather, heat, humidity, noise, hazard, atmospheric conditions, and bodies of water, depending on project requirements.• While performing the duties of this job, physical demands of the employee may include frequent talking, hearing, standing, moving, walking, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, reaching, handling, grasping, feeling, balancing, coordination, and occasional sitting or operating a company vehicle. This job may require lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling up to 35 lbs.
