Senior Civil Project Engineer

Senior Civil Project Engineer

Requirements

• Must have a bachelors or masters degree in engineering, or a scientific area and/or equivalent work experience.
• Professionally registered (P.E., L.S.) in one or more states in which Timmons Group conducts business strongly preferred.
• Must possess seven or more years of design/engineering experience and a demonstrated ability to act as an authorized agent of the company to sign engineering documents.
• Must be capable of correctly operating technical analysis equipment and computer equipment.
• Must possess strong technical verbal and technical writing skills, and be able to read technical literature and engineering plans.
• Must demonstrate two-way communication to effectively work with internal staff and external clients.
• Must possess strong analytical and problem solving skills, and be able to apply professional knowledge to the solution of both routine and non-routine tasks and engineering activities.
• Is expected to participate in external activities representing the firm, including membership/leadership in professional associations, public task forces/committees or other community/technical outreach opportunities.
• Must exhibit maturity, professionalism, and a willingness to solve internal and external client problems.
• Is expected to develop financial project management skills through assigned project work and assigned project management assignments.

Responsibilities

• As an individual contributor, uses professional judgment to direct and independently complete assigned engineering designs.
• Actively assists the Project Manager or acts as Project Manager and assigns tasks and schedules to Project Engineers and project team members, answers questions and monitors progress.
• Checks the accuracy (formal and informal QA/QC) of assigned tasks completed by other engineering and technical staff.
• Makes major design decisions that meet the needs of external customers while coordinating the impact of such decisions on related project efforts.
• Pro-actively identifies technical, schedule or financial issues and seeks resolution from the Project Manager and/or the client as appropriate to the situation.
• Assists the client in bidding or contractor selection if authorized by the Project Manager.
• Monitors construction and supervises field personnel assigned to a task, data collection or a specific project.
• Responds to contractor questions and issues and prepares and issues project addenda as needed.
• Recommends and prepares change orders.
• Participates in the creation of engineering services proposals, including the calculation/estimation of time schedules and costs of the proposed work.
• Signs and seals engineering documents as an authorized representative of the company.
• Independently communicates on technical matters with the client.
• Acts as technical expert on assigned projects when operating as an individual contributor, and acts as Project Manager on smaller scope or specialty projects as assigned.

Preferred Qualifications

• Professionally registered (P.E., L.S.) in one or more states in which Timmons Group conducts business strongly preferred.