Typical responsibilities include:

• Provide oversight of the construction staff in Traverse City and Gaylord offices.
• Manage day-to-day construction duties, scheduling, field support, client contact and field engineering.
• Manage CM inspection staff and the delivery of daily inspection reports in accordance with clients’ requirements.
• Review construction work progress daily. Provide daily site inspections to ensure compliance with approved plans, specifications, standards, codes, and permits.
• Manage CM staff responsible for record keeping, general correspondence, compiling and drafting of required reports and deliverables.
• Manage the Contractor payment process and recommends appropriate adjustments as necessary to manage the Contractor.
• Responsible for overall site safety, permit condition compliance and coordination with other stakeholders.
• Communicate with staff, contractors, and clients to effectively lead progress, project, safety, and scheduling during construction.
• Monitor Contractor performance, schedule, overall responsiveness and effectiveness.
• Generate project correspondence, including responses to Contractor inquiries, in a timely manner to avoid delay, to convey Owner’s position, and to protect the Owner’s interests.
• Act as liaison to design staff to respond to Contractors’ RFI’s and review of shop drawings.
• Collaborate amongst client, contractor(s), design engineers, and third-party stakeholders in addressing priority issues to successfully progress construction projects to completion.
• Collaborate with a local project delivery team and national team of technical experts, including Quality Managers, Project Controls Professionals, Safety Professionals, Technical Leads, and Inspection staff.
• Mentor, supervise and provide direction for less experienced staff.
• Review design and bidding documents for completeness, constructability and biddability.
• Perform, as required, construction administration; schedule analyses; change order development, negotiation, and processing; lead and/or assist start-up and commissioning efforts.
• Lead development of construction management pursuits and proposals, guiding pursuit team on vision, approach, teaming, staffing, and pricing.
• Design civil projects that may include water mains, sanitary sewers, storm sewers, roads, bridges, utility/miscellaneous infrastructure improvement designs, etc.
• Develop and complete applications, permits, engineering reports and specifications
• Prepare and review engineer estimates
• Prepare design cost estimates
• Conduct research and development for projects
• Monitor task budget and progress
• Prepare project status and other reports
• Communicate project details with other design engineers
•  Conduct project cost reviews
•  Promote sales
• Prepare and review scope, budget, and schedule for project tasks
• Assist with proposals, marketing, project reports and technical presentations
• Conduct on-site inspections as needed
• Attend and/or conduct client and project meetings
• Attend various meetings including pre-design, plan review, pre-construction, professional organization, staff, etc.
• Attend seminars and/or training classes
• Maintain excellent client relations
• Maintain a safe working environment

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Civil or Environmental Engineering required

Skills/Experience:

• 10+ years of design experience required
• Professional Engineer registration