Assistant Resident Engineer

Arcadis; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 97,000 - 146,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401K retirement plan

Paid holidays

Job summary

Arcadis seeks an Assistant Resident Engineer to back the Senior Resident Engineer on transit/rail projects in Chicago. You’ll oversee field administration, coordinate contractors, and ensure compliance with contract docs, safety, and schedules in a live transit environment.

Responsibilities include tracking submittals, preparing minutes, and supporting pay apps and closeout. Strong documentation, communication, and coordination with CTA/Metra and design teams are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, construction management, or a related field required.
• PE license preferred; EIT with path toward PE considered.
• Minimum of 8 years in construction management, resident engineering, field engineering, or inspection, preferably on transit/rail projects.
• Station construction or renovation experience with passenger facilities, platforms, and track-adjacent work.
• Familiarity with contractor safety coordination, rail/transit access procedures, outage planning, and public-facing work.
• Experience with CTA, Metra, or similar rail/transit owners is preferred.
• Strong documentation, communication, and coordination skills for multi-stakeholder environments.

Responsibilities

• Support the Senior Resident Engineer with day-to-day field administration and contractor coordination.
• Track submittals, schedules, testing docs, and insurance to ensure timely reviews.
• Coordinate meetings with contractors, facility personnel, design consultants, and agency reps.
• Prepare meeting minutes, action item logs, and project correspondence.
• Verify material inspections, testing, and quality documentation are completed and filed.
• Maintain inspection records, daily reports, photos, and submittal logs.
• Monitor progress against construction schedule and flag delays or outages.
• Assist with changes, field directives, and cost/schedule impacts.
• Support review of contractor pay applications for quantities and progress.
• Coordinate with inspection staff for field reports and testing records.
• Assist in final closeout, punch lists, as-builts, warranties, and O&M materials.

Skills

Documentation

Communication

Coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, construction management, or related field

Tools

Primavera P6

Bluebeam Revu

Microsoft Office

Job description

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description

As an Assistant Resident Engineer, you will support the Senior Resident Engineer in the field administration and construction oversight of transit and rail projects, with an emphasis on station, facility, and infrastructure work typical of agencies such as CTA and Metra. This role will help confirm that work is performed in accordance with contract documents, quality requirements, safety expectations, schedule commitments, owner procedures, and the constraints of active transit operations.

Role accountabilities

• Support the Senior Resident Engineer with day-to-day field administration, contractor coordination, and owner communication.
• Track submittals, schedules, insurance, permits, testing documentation, and other contract requirements to confirm timely review and approval by the appropriate stakeholders.
• Coordinate and participate in meetings with contractors, facility personnel, design consultants, agency representatives, and other project stakeholders.
• Prepare and distribute meeting minutes, action item logs, and related project correspondence.
• Verify that required material inspections, testing activities, and quality documentation are completed, reviewed, and properly filed.
• Maintain and organize inspection records, daily reports, photos, shop drawings, submittal logs, and other construction documentation.
• Monitor contractor progress against the approved construction schedule and support identification of potential delays, access constraints, outage conflicts, public-facing impacts, or coordination issues.
• Assist with review, documentation, and processing of potential changes, change orders, field directives, and related cost or schedule impacts.
• Support review of contractor pay applications by confirming quantities, backup documentation, field progress, and alignment with contract requirements.
• Coordinate with inspection staff to gather field reports, photos, testing records, and other documentation required for official submission.
• Support final project closeout, including punch list tracking, as-built documentation, warranties, manuals, O&M materials, and other contract-required deliverables.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, construction management, or a related field required.
• Professional Engineer license preferred; EIT with a clear path toward PE licensure will also be considered.
• Minimum of 8 years of construction management, resident engineering, field engineering, or inspection-related experience, preferably on transit or rail projects.
• Station construction or renovation experience preferred, including passenger facilities, platforms, vertical circulation, track-adjacent work, utility coordination, access constraints, and work in active operating environments.
• Familiarity with contractor safety coordination, rail/transit access procedures, right-of-way restrictions, outage planning, and work performed adjacent to the public or active operations preferred.
• Experience working with public transit agencies such as CTA, Metra, or similar rail/transit owners is preferred.
• Strong documentation, communication, and coordination skills, with the ability to work effectively with contractors, owners, designers, inspectors, and operations personnel.
• Experience with construction management and document control tools such as Primavera P6, Bluebeam Revu, Microsoft Office, and electronic document control systems preferred.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity employer. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 15 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $97,000 - $146,000. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.

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