04051 - Area Const Eng

About the role

Lead and guide construction inspection staff and managers to achieve district contract goals for safety, quality, schedule, and budgeting for construction and maintenance contracts. Independently perform and oversee contract construction activities within a geographic region. Identify methods for improvement and make cost-effective recommendations that are in compliance with safety, environmental, federal and state standards. Ensure continuous improvement of all aspects of contract construction.

Responsibilities

• Budgets – Manage budgets to ensure expenditures do not exceed allocations by providing oversight and direction to the development and management of budgets for each functional area.
• Enhance current outreach efforts both internally and externally to VDOT. Promote VDOT's mission to the community, business partners, and other stakeholder groups.
• Respond to inquiries from the public, DOT officials, CTB members, news media, and local, state, and federal agencies concerning district transportation activities, problems, projects, etc.
• Collaborate and communicate VDOT initiatives to other government entities. Strengthen relationships with legislators, local leaders, and other stakeholders.
• Maintain communication and outreach efforts with legislators, government and planning agencies, media, citizen groups, and a variety of special interest groups concerning project status, progress, successes and challenges.
• Manage contract construction budgets for all assigned projects to meet performance goals.
• Coordinate with FHWA in the preparation and review of work orders, NOIs, and claims to validate necessity of work and level of federal participation.
• Work jointly with residencies within assigned region to determine needs for project managers, inspectors, equipment, and supplies for projects.
• Conduct on-site field visits to ensure all elements of design and construction are within scope of contract and within established standards and specifications.
• Meet with all involved engineering and construction groups as necessary to gain additional information and to ensure understanding of factors relating to projects.
• Identify costs and benefits related to recommendation implementation and reports findings to management.
• Consult with District Contract Administrator and District Business Manager to prepare monthly and fiscal year end reports.
• Evaluate project development process to ensure they adequately address constructability and contract lessons learned.
• Develop project schedules and establish project timeframes.
• Participate in scoping meetings, field inspections, concurrent engineering meetings, public hearings, field reviews, and pre-ad conferences to identify details for clarification or to be addressed upon discovery along with lessons learned from ongoing and past projects.
• Recommend steps to address identified shortcomings.
• Prepare and submit constructability review reports and checklist.
• Ensure biddability analysis is performed prior to ad and coordinate with appropriate Scheduling and Contract Division staff on modifications to bid proposal.
• Review plans and contract special provisions prior to beginning construction work.
• Manage and facilitate contract and construction quality improvement.
• Provide leadership in dispute resolution; perform analysis and lead negotiations.
• Interpret plans, schedule, and contract requirements and provide technical advice to contractors, design and field staff.
• Ensure reviews of project correspondence are conducted.
• Conduct meetings with engineering and construction groups to address project issues and maintain consistency.
• Conduct follow-up reviews with staff and management to support implementation of recommendations.
• Conduct on-site field visits and document findings to appropriate parties; perform follow-up assessments to evaluate implementation effectiveness.
• Prepare reports with constructability issues clearly identified with recommendations for resolution.
• Participate with other top departmental senior managers in implementing agency mission, goals and objectives.
• Engage fully as a member of the district’s senior leadership team by working with team members to support and promote achievement of district performance goals.
• Work on district-wide and special initiatives at DA request.
• Offer ideas and suggestions to team members supporting process improvements and program efficiencies.
• Ensure core functions and strategic initiatives are appropriately resourced and linked to the larger VDOT strategic plan.
• Demonstrate considerable knowledge of sound engineering practices and project management procedures to address transportation related matters.
• Apply sound technical guidance to resolve problems and issues.
• Suggest modifications and changes to current technical policies and directives to improve effectiveness and efficiency.
• Attend meetings, facilitate actions and communicate.
• Correspond with appropriate officials in support of VDOT values, goals and objectives.

Qualifications

• Ability to apply knowledge of federal, FHWA, state and local transportation rules, regulations and policies.
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing with diverse audiences and to make presentation and conduct meetings.
• Ability to oversee construction activities for multiple projects of varying complexity.
• Degree in Construction Engineering or related field.
• Knowledge of engineering design for roadways, structures, drainage and environmental state and federal standards related to highway design and construction.
• Knowledge of quality assurance and control methods.
• Knowledge of transportation construction principles and practices, transportation project management, processes, quality assurance and quality control methods.
• Skill in project scheduling and management.
• Skill in use of computers and software applications to perform tasks which support VDOT operations.
• Valid Professional Engineer's license.
• Valid driver's license.

Additional Considerations

• Certification as Certified Construction Manager (CCM).
• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP).
• Experience in project and program management related to transportation engineering.
• Progressively responsible managerial experience in transportation engineering.
• Experience interpreting federal and state guidelines, policies and practices related to Transportation engineering.
• Extensive experience conducting constructability reviews focusing on scheduling, assessments, and report recommendations for highways and structures.
• Extensive experience leading and supervising construction and engineering staff.
• Extensive experience leading construction engineering staff in resolution of construction issues and in quality improvement for projects of varying complexity.
• Extensive experience leading engineering staff in resolution of issues for projects of varying complexity.
• Progressively responsible experience in transportation engineering.
• Progressively responsible experience in management and administration of diversified transportation engineering or construction program.