Associate Project Engineer

Responsibilities

• Organizes project teams, assigns individual responsibilities, developing project schedules, and determining resource requirements.
• Makes sure projects stay on track in terms of cost, timing, and staffing.
• Ensures all projects adhere to internal and external quality standards.
• Manages engineering projects, including coordination of personnel, and oversight of safety, quality, scope, schedule, and budget related items under supervision and guidance of direct supervisor to deliver a successful project outcome.
• Owns small to medium sized projects and manages and implements multiple projects and modifications concurrently.
• Partners and coordinates with all in-house and external resources for all activities related to the project.
• Ensures applicable licensing, environmental, permitting, safety, code compliance, construction, and requirements/input of all project stakeholders is incorporated into the project especially during initiation through design phase of the project.
• Develops and manages design documents/specifications, project presentations, Trustee Items, project funding requests, budgets, forecasts, bid documents, evaluates bid proposals, and makes award recommendations, with guidance from higher-level Project Engineer and/or Project Manager.
• Works with Construction Engineers, Engineering, Customers or Service Providers in developing/negotiating contract change orders, preparing invoices and coordinating construction sequencing and site outages, coordinates all field & design changes and quality testing/inspections.
• Reviews and contributes to all project documentation including drawings, technical specifications, assessment reports, asset and risk registry, budgets, forecasts, invoices, schedules, variances, etc. for the project.
• Performs occasional emergency response, including outside of normal business hours.
• Provides supervision of maintenance department(s) staff, and contractors, and prepares and monitors the day-to-day work activities of the crafts.
• Schedules work activities; oversees the safety of employees.
• Reviews job packages to ensure they are complete and current prior to performance of the work.
• Reviews completed work, job packages, and work orders to verify all steps are complete and to ensure that all data/information is recorded.

Requirements

• Basic competency in project management of electrical, mechanical, structural and/or water projects specific to the electric utility, canal/waterways, building systems, distributed energy resource and/or electric vehicle industries.
• Collaborative and team-oriented with ability to build relationships with vendors and stakeholders.
• Ability to develop project plans, timelines, and work schedules as well as coordinate among customers, contractors, permitting agencies, etc.
• Familiarity with applicable codes, standards, regulations, project budgets, costs, project management software and NYPA external stakeholders.
• Ability to perform basic engineering calculations, and adapt standard specifications, scopes of work, reports, and design packages to specific projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical Engineering or Energy Engineering or related field.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience preferred in Project / Construction Management, preferably in the utility, commercial or related mechanical/electrical industries.
• New York State Engineer in Training (EIT) certification or ability to get one within 2 years preferred.

Skills

• Knowledge of applicable codes, standards, regulations, project budgets, costs, project management software and NYPA external stakeholders.
• Ability to perform basic engineering calculations, and adapt standard specifications, scopes of work, reports, and design packages to specific projects.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

The estimated salary range for this position is: $83,000 - $114,400 (Upstate) or $96,000 - $120,000 (Downstate).

Schedule

Not specified.