Project Engineer

Company: HDR, Inc.
Location: Bakersfield
Posted on: June 7, 2021

Job Description:

About Us

At HDR, we specialize in engineering, architecture, environmental and construction services. While we are most well-known for adding beauty and structure to communities through high-performance buildings and smart infrastructure, we provide much more than that. We create an unshakable foundation for progress because our multidisciplinary teams also include scientists, economists, builders, analysts and artists. That's why we believe diversity is our greatest strength. HDR is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer.

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We believe that the way we work can add meaning and value to the world. That ideas inspire positive change. That coloring outside the lines can illuminate fresh perspectives. And that small details yield important realizations. Above all, we believe that collaboration is the best way forward.

Primary Responsibilities

• Serve as a Construction Project Engineer delivering engineering services on several simultaneous projects.
• Contracts range in value from several thousand to several million dollars.
• Responsible for observation and reporting on assigned projects to Government personnel.
• Support implementation of Government corporate decision / guidance / laws / regulations and policy in the development of the project and intermediate products in support of the project.
• Oversees construction, contract administration, and quality assurance activities in accordance to established policies, procedures, and regulations.
• Support Government Field Resident Office in duties as assign.
• Analyzes design and construction issues with respect to contract requirements. Delivers recommendations to government personnel regarding compliance with contract provisions and environmental harmony, and exercises engineering judgment to assist in the development of solutions between conflicting plan details or requirements which become evident as construction progresses.
• Delivers opinion to government personnel as related to schedule items being reasonable, consistent, and proportionately balanced with percentages accurately represented for each corresponding work feature or component of work.
• Informs government personnel on progress percentages as they relate to an approximately uniform or balanced monetary payment, and that work involved accurately represents the monetary proportional amount of the contract.
• Summarizes contractor's submittals and delivers outline of submittal for review by government personnel. Prepares correspondence for the COR's signature.
• Provides field surveillance and delivers daily detailed reports covering all pertinent factors affecting cost and engineering considerations.
• Delivers quality assurance plans for assigned projects to government personnel. Assists government in the preparation of modification scopes of work for changes to include drawings and specifications.
• Assists government in the preparation of cost estimates, and recommends objectives for government personnel to pursue on contractor proposals.
• Will be a resource in negotiations to reach a fair and reasonable settlement of contract time extensions and/or cost increase/decrease.
• Participates on pre-construction conferences with government personnel. Delivers upward reporting to district project managers.
• Delivers status reports on assigned projects to the district corporate leadership. All deliverables from the contract employee under this discipline will be reviewed by government personnel within 10 calendar days o

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