Staff Construction Engineer

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Join a team that brings inspirational architecture, landscapes, townscapes and places to our world, and we’ll provide you unlimited space to grow.

Who are we looking for?   

Our Construction Management Group is growing! In response to the steady growth of our team in the West Region (Arizona, California, Washington) GHD is looking for a Staff Construction Engineer with on time and budget delivery capabilities.  You will help provide GHD’s construction phase support services to new and existing clients on multiple simultaneous projects with a construction value of up to $15M each. This position can be located in Irvine, San Diego, Long Beach, Tustin or Los Angele California.

Bring your curiosity and passion to the technical challenges we solve at GHD. Then see how everyone gets behind you.

With commitment, there’s no idea too big, no dream too far. We strive to create opportunity for all. Giving you leading training and development programs to accelerate your growth.  

Come and see where your career can take you and the impact your commitment can make.

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 Let's solve the big problems together. 

Working with an energetic and high performing team, this position offers a variety of work and will see you involved in: 

• External Communications: Help others get the most out of external communications systems by offering support and advice.
• Construction Management: Supervise others on a construction project, working within established operational systems.
• Health, Safety, and Environment: Follow the organization's health, safety, and environment (HSE) policies, procedures, and mandatory instructions to identify and mitigate environmental risks and risks to the well-being of self and others in the workplace; instruct the team in safe working methods; identify instances of risky behaviors within the team and take appropriate action, escalating serious issues as appropriate.
• Work Scheduling and Allocation: Assign short-term work schedules to a team of subordinates in order to achieve expectations while following established timelines.
• Leadership and Direction: Communicate the local action plan; explain how this relates to the function's strategy and action plan and to the broader organization's mission and vision; motivate people to achieve local business goals.
• Performance Management: Respond to personal objectives and use performance management systems to improve personal performance; or monitor the performance of the team, allocate work and review completion, take appropriate corrective action to ensure timeliness and quality, and contribute to formal individual performance management and appraisal.
• Organizational Capability Building: Provide coaching to team members to develop their skills.
• Quality Assurance: Plan and coordinate testing and inspection of products and processes. Implement corrective actions or continuous improvement initiatives and monitor them to make sure they are effective.
• Operational Compliance: Identify, within the team, instances of noncompliance with the organization's policies and procedures and/or relevant regulatory codes and codes of conduct, reporting these instances and escalating issues as appropriate.
• Client & Customer Management (External): Help senior colleagues manage client and customer relationships by using relevant sales or client systems.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, or equivalent combination of education and management experience

Experience

• Minimum 3 years of experience as Project Manager/Engineer, Construction Manager and/or Resident Engineer on multiple simultaneous construction projects
• Current Professional Engineer (PE) license preferred
• EIT, Professional Engineer in the State of California
• Inspector of Record
• CMAA, or other industry memberships

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Salary Range - $87,000-$145,000

As a multicultural organization, we encourage individual achievement and recognize the strength of a diverse workforce. GHD is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to race, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status or veteran status.