Senior Project Engineer - Infrastructure

Cianbro; Bangor (ME); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Cianbro in Bangor, Maine, seeks an experienced project controls leader for heavy civil, marine, and movable bridge projects. You’ll manage quality control, scheduling, documentation, and on-site means and methods, ensuring drawings and contracts are followed.

Role requires coordinating master schedules, cost control, and client liaison while maintaining safety standards and regulatory compliance. This is a senior field-facing position with broad project responsibility.

Qualifications

• Four-year civil engineering or construction management degree or equivalent combinations of technical training and/or related experience in civil marine/movable bridges.
• Minimum of six years of heavy infrastructure construction project management in the field.
• Knowledge of estimating, schedules, budget, cost controls, financial reporting, and safety required.
• Excellent communication, attention to detail, and organizational skills are essential.
• Computer skills in word processing, spreadsheets, scheduling, and databases.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support around quality control, blueprint and contract compliance, scheduling, documentation, and engineering means and methods on-site.
• Assist in proper project planning, value-added engineering means and methods, developing work packages and preparing production indicators/benchmarks, and developing the master schedule.
• Coordinate construction activities on a project, including the estimate, start-up, costing, scheduling, demobilization, etc.
• Provide ongoing client contact to assess the progression of work and resources required to successfully complete project.
• Interpret design/drawings for team members installing material.
• Research and resolve drawing interpretation problems, conflicts, interferences, and errors.
• Verify that all completed work complies with applicable codes, and drawings and specifications.
• Maintain the project schedule and budget to aid project leadership in knowing where they are and making decisions for how to achieve project goals, with input from others.
• Identify, document, and estimate costs of extra work activities, which were not anticipated in original scope and provide proper notification and financial reporting of change orders.
• Assist Project Manager in other responsibilities, as required.

Skills

Communication

Attention to detail

Organizational skills

Computer skills

Education

Civil engineering or construction management degree

Job description

Responsibility for the construction and project controls functions on heavy civil, marine, and/or movable bridges.

Job Responsibilities

• Provide technical support around quality control, blueprint and contract compliance, scheduling, documentation, and engineering means and methods on‑site.
• Assist in proper project planning, value‑added engineering means and methods, developing work packages and preparing production indicators/benchmarks, and developing the master schedule.
• Coordinate construction activities on a project, including the estimate, start‑up, costing, scheduling, demobilization, etc.
• Provide ongoing client contact to assess the progression of work and resources required to successfully complete project.
• Interpret design/drawings for team members installing material.
• Research and resolve drawing interpretation problems, conflicts, interferences, and errors.
• Verify that all completed work complies with applicable codes, and drawings and specifications.
• Maintain the project schedule and budget to aid project leadership in knowing where they are and making decisions for how to achieve project goals, with input from others.
• Identify, document, and estimate costs of extra work activities, which were not anticipated in original scope and provide proper notification and financial reporting of change orders.
• Assist Project Manager in other responsibilities, as required.

Qualifications/Requirements

• Four‑year civil engineering or construction management degree or equivalent combinations of technical training and/or related experience in civil marine / movable bridges a plus.
• Minimum of six years of heavy infrastructure construction project management in the field.
• Knowledge of estimating, schedules, budget, cost controls, financial reporting, and safety required.
• Excellent communication, attention to detail, and organizational skills are essential.
• Computer skills in word processing, spreadsheets, scheduling, and databases.

Cianbro is an employee‑owned, tobacco‑free, equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate based on marital status, race, color, creed, gender, sex, religion, national origin, gender identity, age, veteran status, union affiliation, physical or mental disability, citizenship status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or other legally protected status.