Senior Project Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the overall engineering of assigned project including: plan preparation, permitting, reports, design, QA/QC of junior staff contributions, site visits, and meetings with client/contractors as needed.
• Consistently and accurately producing and/or overseeing professional design of subdivisions, grading plans, earthwork volumes and storm drainage calculations, design of utilities, including storm and sanitary sewers, paving, watermain, waterlines, waterline sizing, and street improvements.
• Responsible for the overall successful engineering of the project: Contract finalization/signature plan preparation, scheduling and communicating deliverables, obtaining and delivering required permitting, reports, etc. on time and within budget.
• QA/QC of junior staff contributions.
• Executes, encourages, and upholds established JSD Standards in all aspects of project design and deliverables.
• Verifies design computations and plan detailing for conformance with codes, manuals, and design considerations.
• Prepares correspondence, technical specifications and reports.
• Attends and participates at client and municipal meetings.
• Timely and respectfully communicates with project team members, client representatives, review agencies, and others as appropriate to project.
• Coordinates final design computations with review agencies and verifies implementation.
• Prepares opinions of cost, quantities, periodic reports, pay estimates, and data necessary to document acceptability of materials and quantities for final payment.

Required Capabilities:

Must display a consistent:

• High degree attention to detail.
• High degree time and task management.
• High degree of multi-tasking and switching quickly between tasks/projects/client.
• High degree of organization.
• Extensive knowledge of fundamental engineering practices.
• Capability of dealing with multiple responsibilities concurrently in a fast-paced environment.
• Mentors, trains, and directs civil design staff on design fundamentals in an open, courteous, and respectful manner.
• Ability to work extended hours as required to meet client, project and/or business demands.

Essential Functions of Position:

• 6-8 hours a day on the computer.
• Must be able to safely drive a vehicle for meetings and site visits, occasionally for long distances.
• Physically able to meet OSHA regulations for being on an active construction site for site visits to active projects.
• Must be able to safely visit sites not yet under construction (outdoor conditions/terrain that may include: farmer fields, marshlands, flatlands, wooded areas) without accompaniment or supervision.
• Standing, walking, bending, squatting multiple times a day for up to 8 hours.