Senior Assistant Resident Engineer
| Location | Durham, 2612 N Duke St |
| Date Posted | October 18, 2024 |
| Category |
Science / Tech / Engineering
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| Job Type |
Full-time
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| State | North Carolina (NC) |
Description
How to Apply
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The Challenge
We are hiring a Senior Assistant Resident Engineer to join our Durham County Resident Engineering team.
In this role, you will:
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- Lead minor and major construction projects.
- Supervise staff and prepare/evaluate employee performance.
- Prepare monthly and final estimates.
- Engage in writing and verbally with contractors, inspection staff, utility companies and the public to ensure compliance with contract plans, standards, and specifications.
- Evaluate data collected by field staff.
- Prepare technical letters and reports.
- Review contract plans, specifications, and materials test results.
- Work with minimal supervision from our Resident Engineer.
- Promote a safe working environment.
What You Bring
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- Skills at plan reading, highway engineering calculations, and using survey instruments necessary to supervise stake-outs of line grades for roadways and structures.
- Contract administration knowledge to ensure projects are constructed in accordance with NCDOT specifications, standard drawings, and policies.
- Customer service experience related to solving problems involving explaining engineering concepts to customer groups.
- Demonstrated ability to understand, explain, and administer highway contract construction projects.
- Experience performing engineering analysis on complex contract administration issues, and the timely approval/denial of issues through supplemental agreements and claims.
- Experience training, planning, coordinating, and supervising staff work.
- Ability to safely operate a motor vehicle.
- Working knowledge of the principles and practices of civil engineering and construction methods, materials, and equipment.
- Good computer skills and the ability to use contract administration software.
- Ability to understand, explain, and administer contracts, interpret plans, provisions and specifications, train other employees and plan, coordinate, and supervise work.
- Ability to communicate, establish, and maintain working relationships with coworkers, management, contractors and the public.
- Solid verbal and written communications skills.
- Ability to work in extreme temperatures and on uneven terrain for extended time.
- Safety toe footwear.
Note
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- We may require registration as a professional engineer by the NC Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors.
Education & Experience
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- Bachelors Degree in engineering, and
- 3+ years of relevant experience; or
- An equivalent combination of education and experience.
Questions?
Call me: Kelsey Bagwell at 919-707-7370.
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