Senior Resident Engineer & Department Manager

HNTB; Las Vegas (NV); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

HNTB is seeking a seasoned professional to lead a field department responsible for delivering large-scale infrastructure projects. The role focuses on managing scope, budget, and quality while coordinating staff across locations to ensure resources are available when needed.

You will oversee contract management, submittal reviews, and the application of the firm’s delivery plans, guiding teams to achieve project objectives.

Qualifications

• Lead a professional or technical discipline field department and manage scope, budget, and quality control.
• Coordinate staffing schedules and staff assignments across locations.
• Provide technical coaching and mentoring to staff and ensure efficient utilization.

Responsibilities

• Develop the project scope and fee quotation and assist in technical proposals and contracts.
• Coordinate project activities, establish priorities and staffing; prepare daily activity summaries and monitor progress against schedules.
• Oversee project controls including schedule coordination and reviewing contractor progress.
• Review submittals for conformance to plans and specifications; work with contractors to meet schedule requirements.
• Implement the firm’s project delivery plan on each project; lead development and execution of the project management plan; mentor the team.
• Provide interpretation and enforcement of contract plans.

Job description

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 leading a professional or technical discipline field department in the development and delivery of project tasks while managing scope, budget, and quality control. This position coordinates project priorities, staffing schedules, and staff assignments to ensure clients are provided the proper resources at the appropriate time. Responsible for technical coaching and mentoring and efficient, productive utilization of staff in providing high-quality service. This position will entail management of staff in other locations, including Denver, and, in the future, in Phoenix and Las Vegas and coordinating with the Mountain West Office PM/CM Group Director and the West Division CM Business Development leaders to grow the CM practices in these locations.

This opportunity also entails being responsible for overall field contract management, administration and coordination on large projects or programs of a diverse and complex nature. Has full technical responsibility for interpreting, organizing, executing, and coordinating construction engineering assignments. Responsible for monitoring assigned staff to determine that the contractor's activities are monitored and controlled in accordance with design specifications and contractual requirements. Acts as on-site liaison between Client, Company Personnel and Contractor in resolution of project issues. Acts as a specialist in the application of advanced concepts, principles, techniques, and procedures for an assigned area of responsibility. Analyzes complex construction/design problems requiring the development of new or improved techniques or procedures and consults with design engineering personnel. Represents projects at meetings and conferences. Typically responsible for running projects of $20M or greater in construction value and key role in mega project pursuits.

What You'll Do

• Responsible for development of the project scope and fee quotation and assists in the preparation of technical proposals and contracts in accordance with HNTB's Sophisticated Contracting Approach (SCA).
• Coordinates project activities establishes priorities and staff to jobs. Prepares Summary Inspection Report of Daily activities. Monitors contractor progress and compares with the reviewed progress schedule. Resolves technical field issues and coordinates with Architects and Engineers for timely and accurate responses to requests for information.
• Oversees project controls including checking contractors’ controls, coordination of schedule, and reviewing constructors schedule.
• Reviews submittals for conformance to plans and specifications. Develops strategies with the contractor to create submittal packages that conform to schedule requirements.
• Implements the firm’s project delivery plan using HNTB's Sophisticated Delivery Approach (SDA) on each project. Leads the development and the execution of the project management plan. Supervises and mentors team to overall project objectives. Identifies and resolves non-compliant work.
• Provides interpretation and enforcement of contract plans