Technical Senior Project Engineer

What We're Looking For

• At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners.
• This opportunity entails being responsible for the production and modification of design calculations, technical reports, engineering plans and specifications for assigned projects. This position consults with the project manager to perform research, development, calculations, design and delivery. Applies engineering techniques, procedures and design criteria for complex and cross-discipline projects. Leverages technical knowledge and experience to address design related issues or concerns, working closely with the project manager through creative problem solving, interactions with clients and by completing tasks to meet the project schedule. Develops conceptual and detailed designs and calculations to support the project completion using current drawing and technical tools, programs and software. May mentor, train and review work of junior engineer staff and provide constructive feedback. As a member of the team, you will contribute to the successful project delivery for a diverse range of projects for HNTB’s clients.

What You'll Do:

• Uses senior-level technical expertise to consider broad range of engineering solutions.
• Responsible for the discipline-specific planning, work distribution, and leadership and adherence to the schedule, and budget on complex or unusual engineering projects.
• Assists in marketing responsibilities, including proposal generation.
• Develops scope of work and level of effort and manages adherence to scope and budget on complex or unusual engineering projects within discipline.
• Oversees completeness and accuracy of project team’s work within the technical discipline.
• Provides technical guidance and mentoring to team members to achieve overall project objectives on complex or unusual engineering projects.
• Coordinates technical aspects of the project with client counterpart and teaming partners at staff level for work within the discipline on complex or unusual engineering projects.
• Leads discipline delivery on larger, multi-disciplinary projects. Works closely with other disciplines on multi-discipline projects.
• Assists with coordination and planning of schedules, hours, and distribution of work for other disciplines on multi-discipline projects on complex or unusual engineering projects
• Performs other duties as assigned.

What You'll Need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and 8 years of relevant experience, or
• Master’s degree in Engineering and 7 years of relevant experience, or
• PhD in Engineering and 6 years of relevant experience

What You'll Bring:

• Shows excellent technical knowledge and quality work in multiple discipline projects.
• Prioritizes tasks and displays accountability to the project team to deliver projects that are of high quality, on-time, and within budget and scope.
• Demonstrates vision beyond the task at hand and anticipates risks and effects of their actions.
• Understands and supports the objectives that are responsible for successful project delivery, recognizing how multiple disciplines influence project development
• Applies an accrued knowledge base to innovate project efficiencies.
• Uses refined technical skills to identify problems, develop appropriate solutions, and make good decisions, knowing what tools to use for effective solutions and optimal outcomes on projects.

What We Prefer:

• Master’s degree in Engineering
• 10 years of relevant experience
• Professional Engineer (PE) or American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) depending on discipline

At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners.

This opportunity entails being responsible for the production and modification of design calculations, technical reports, engineering plans and specifications for assigned projects. This position consults with the project manager to perform research, development, calculations, design and delivery. Applies engineering techniques, procedures and design criteria for complex and cross-discipline projects.

Leverages technical knowledge and experience to address design related issues or concerns, working closely with the project manager through creative problem solving, interactions with clients and by completing tasks to meet the project schedule. Develops conceptual and detailed designs and calculations to support the project completion using current drawing and technical tools, programs and software. May mentor, train and review work of junior engineer staff and provide constructive feedback.

As a member of the team, you will contribute to the successful project delivery for a diverse range of projects for HNTB’s clients.

The Technical Senior Project Engineer serves as a key technical liaison between procurement development and post-let project delivery for major alternative delivery and P3 projects. The position brings a construction and implementation perspective into the development of procurement documents and Technical Provisions to help ensure contractual requirements are clear, practical, enforceable, and aligned with how projects will ultimately be designed, constructed, managed, and administered.

Working across Pre-Let and Post-Let teams, the Technical Senior Project Engineer translates construction experience, lessons learned, project delivery needs, and subject matter expert input into effective contract requirements . The role coordinates closely with procurement, construction, design, quality, traffic, project controls, commercial/legal, environmental, utilities, right of way, and other technical disciplines to maintain continuity between procurement intent and post-award execution.

The primary focus of the position is the development, coordination, and continuous improvement of Technical Provisions associated with post-let process management.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Provision Development & Contract Requirements
• Serve as a primary contributor to the development, review, coordination, and maintenance of Project Management Requirements, Post-Let Quality Program Requirements, and Traffic Control Requirements.
• Lead or facilitate development of Technical Provision language by converting SME recommendations and project-delivery objectives into clear, coordinated, and implementable contractual requirements.
• Coordinate requirements across Technical Provisions to minimize gaps, conflicts, duplication, and ambiguity between contract sections.
• Review Technical Provisions for consistency with the anticipated construction approach, sequencing, schedule requirements, project controls, quality processes, and traffic-control implementation.
• Support development and review of RFQs, RFPs, Technical Provisions, addenda, and other procurement documents.
• Support review of proposer questions, Alternative Technical Concepts, and proposed procurement revisions where construction or Post-Let implementation considerations are relevant.
• Assist technical and procurement teams in evaluating how changes to one contractual requirement may affect related requirements elsewhere in the contract.
• Post-Let Feedback & Continuous Improvement
• Establish and maintain a feedback loop between active Post-Let projects and future procurements.
• Engage Post-Let project managers, construction personnel, technical SMEs, and project controls staff to identify contractual requirements that are difficult to administer, unclear, overly prescriptive, or insufficient for effective project delivery.
• Evaluate recurring RFIs, submittal issues, nonconformance trends, schedule challenges, change issues, traffic-control concerns, and other project-delivery experiences for potential improvements to future contract requirements.
• Support development of standardized and scalable Technical Provision language appropriate to project type, delivery method, size, risk, and complexity.
• Maintain and communicate lessons learned and recommended revisions to support consistency across the alternative delivery/P3 program.
• Participate in periodic reviews of standard Technical Provisions and recommend updates based on actual project implementation.
• Constructability, Quality, Schedule & Traffic Control
• Provide construction-focused input during development and review of project scope and contract requirements.
• Support constructability, construction-phasing, sequencing, and staging reviews during project development and procurement.
• Evaluate the interaction between construction activities, project schedules, quality requirements, traffic-control requirements, and contractual milestones.
• Coordinate with quality SMEs to ensure contract requirements appropriately establish expectations for quality management, inspection, testing, documentation, and acceptance.
• Coordinate with traffic and construction SMEs to ensure traffic-control requirements appropriately address anticipated construction phasing, work-zone implementation, lane closures, and project-specific constraints.
• Identify potential conflicts or unintended consequences between proposed technical requirements and anticipated means of project delivery.
• Multidisciplinary Technical Coordination
• Coordinate technical inputs from design, construction, traffic, quality, environmental, utilities, right of way, geotechnical, project controls, procurement, commercial/legal, and other SMEs.
• Facilitate resolution of comments and conflicting technical requirements among disciplines.
• Support Phase Development Work Plans, project risk assessments, milestone reviews, and other program-level technical activities.
• Prepare technical summaries, decision documentation, and recommendations for procurement and program leadership.
• Support technical discussions associated with partnering, steering committee, procurement, and project coordination meetings.
• Maintain appropriate documentation and version control for Technical Provision development and revisions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Design-Build, P3, CM/GC, or other alternative delivery methods .
• Experience developing or administering RFQs, RFPs, Technical Provisions, specifications, or Design-Build contract documents.
• Experience in both Pre-Let procurement and Post-Let construction/project administration .
• Familiarity with GDOT standards, specifications, procedures, and alternative-delivery practices.
• Experience with construction scheduling, quality programs, work-zone traffic control, constructability reviews, and contract administration.
• Experience capturing construction lessons learned and incorporating them into future procurement or contract requirements.
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