Pavement Project Engineer - Field Ops & Quality Lead

Acciona S.A; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

401(k)

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Short and long-term disability

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Job summary

ACCIONA is seeking a Project Engineer – Pavement to support field paving operations on the SR400 Express Lanes project in Georgia. You will coordinate with superintendents, paving crews, plants, trucking, and subcontractors to ensure timely, quality pavement construction and testing compliance.

The role requires a Civil Engineering degree with at least 3 years of field experience in infrastructure or pavement projects, familiarity with GDOT standards, and proficiency in Primavera P6, Procore,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, or related field.
• Minimum 3 years of field infrastructure experience.
• Familiarity with GDOT projects and knowledge of AASHTO and FHWA standards is a plus.
• Proven ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, specifications, and traffic control plans.

Responsibilities

• Support field construction of subgrade, soil stabilization, aggregate base, asphalt paving, milling, pavement rehabilitation, and concrete pavement where applicable.
• Coordinate paving operations with Superintendents, Foremen, paving crews, asphalt plants, trucking operations, subcontractors, survey, quality, and MOT teams.
• Review pavement plans, typical sections, profiles, specifications, paving limits, grades, and construction sequencing.
• Assist with planning paving widths, lift thicknesses, joints, lane sequences, truck requirements, equipment spreads, material quantities, and production targets.
• Coordinate asphalt production and delivery with plants and trucking operations to maintain consistent paving production.
• Track asphalt tonnage, aggregate quantities, milling quantities, truck cycles, waste, production rates, and installed pavement quantities.
• Verify roadway grades, cross slopes, elevations, transitions, tie-ins, and pavement thickness before and during paving operations.
• Coordinate testing and quality requirements including compaction, asphalt temperature, density, cores, smoothness, thickness, and material acceptance.
• Monitor paving and compaction activities to ensure required rolling patterns, density, joint construction, thickness, and surface tolerances are achieved.
• Coordinate milling, surface preparation, tack coat, paving, striping, and reopening of roadway sections with lane-closure and MOT requirements.
• Coordinate pavement work with drainage, structures, bridge approaches, utilities, barriers, shoulders, ramps, and roadway tie-ins.
• Develop paving look-ahead plans and maintain RFIs, mix-design approvals, quantity records, production reports, testing documentation, and as-built information.
• Monitor cost, production, subcontractor performance, schedule, quality, and safety for assigned pavement activities.

Skills

Primavera P6

Procore

Bluebeam

HCSS

Reading drawings

Coordination

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering

Construction Management

Tools

Primavera P6

HCSS

Bluebeam

Job description

ACCIONA is seeking a Project Engineer – Pavement to support field paving operations on the SR400 Express Lanes project in Georgia. You will coordinate with superintendents, paving crews, plants, trucking, and subcontractors to ensure timely, quality pavement construction and testing compliance.

The role requires a Civil Engineering degree with at least 3 years of field experience in infrastructure or pavement projects, familiarity with GDOT standards, and proficiency in Primavera P6, Procore,