Utilities Design Manager

Ferrovial Construction; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A global infrastructure leader based in Atlanta seeks a Utilities Design Manager to oversee utility coordination for major transportation projects. This role involves managing design consultants, preparing utility relocations, and resolving conflicts within project designs. Candidates should hold a relevant engineering degree and possess at least five years of experience in highway design. This position emphasizes effective communication and project management skills, offering the chance to impact significant infrastructure projects.

Qualifications

• Graduation from an accredited college or university with a relevant degree.
• Experience in highway design and construction projects.
• Minimum of five years’ experience on Public/Private Partnership or Design and Build projects.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate utility design and consultant management for transportation projects.
• Identify and manage utility conflicts using conflict analysis.
• Prepare preliminary design for utility relocations and manage associated costs.
• Review property interest for easement acquisitions.
• Manage engineer's estimates for costs and schedules related to utility relocations.

Skills

Utility conflict resolution

Project coordination

Cost management

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering or MEP

Job description

Overview

Join Ferrovial: Where Innovation Meets Opportunity

Are you ready to elevate your career with a global leader in infrastructure solving complex problems and generating a positive outcome on people’s lives? At Ferrovial, we are a community of innovators and trailblazers. We operate in more than 15 countries with a workforce of over 24,000 professionals worldwide, including Highways, Airports, Construction, and Energy. Ferrovial Construction is internationally recognized for its capacity to design and build civil engineering and construction projects, mainly in large transportation infrastructure.

Ferrovial Construction’s track record includes significant projects such as tunnels, roads, railroad lines, and road maintenance. We are a company of people who value collaboration, innovation, and long-term impact.

Job Description

Job Overview: The Utilities Design Manager will supervise and coordinate all design work related to utilities for major transportation projects (minimum $250 million per project) with a minimum Utility relocation budget of $50 million. The Utilities Design Manager (UDM) will coordinate a team of design consultants and provide technical oversight during utility planning, design, and construction stages.

Responsibilities and Duties

List the essential duties required to carry out the job. This should be listed in order of importance and use complete sentences starting with verbs in the present tense.

• Coordination of Utility Consultant: Provide support to the selection of utility design consultants for the preparation of tender design works.
• Manage and coordinate the selected consultant to deliver the tender design product.
• Attend and manage Utility meetings with Construction and Contracting staff and potentially with Utility Owners to coordinate various Utility issues, including agreements, designs, conflicts, meeting minutes, and agendas.
• Coordinate Utility design and, if applicable, Project Utility Adjustment Agreement (PUAA) language to incorporate into the Utility tender deliverables.

• Utility Conflict Matrix: Identify utilities and implement strategies to clear the maximum number of conflicts that could arise. Review Owner’s documents and define existing utilities inventory, and prepare and maintain the Utility Owner contact and representative’s matrix.
• Identify all new utilities on the Project not listed in the SUE, determine the need for additional SUE investigation, and coordinate this with potential consultants.
• Coordinate with other tender design discipline leads to address the conflict analysis matrix with the developing design plan. Maintain the conflict matrix for utilities that are to remain, be relocated, or be abandoned. Update the matrix as design changes, warning when a change could create significant conflicts.
• Coordinate with the Tender Design Manager and other discipline leads to maximize Utility conflict avoidance.

• Prepare Utility Relocation Preliminary Design: Manage the development of the utility relocation preliminary design and review/update the Utility concept plan in strip map format using conflict analysis spreadsheets. Include existing and proposed ROW, highway stationing, plan/profile, structures, and other utilities. Use the layout to inform feasibility options for utility adjustments.
• Coordinate with team members to determine cost-effective conflict resolutions by assessing the impact of each relocation within the project corridor.

• ROW & Easements: Review property interest information and prepare a property matrix to establish costs associated with utility property interest relinquishment and acquisition. Support easement acquisition tender services and prepare anticipated easement ROW areas in MicroStation.

• BOQ and Estimated Utility Relocation Construction Cost: Manage the development of the engineer's estimate of probable construction costs for utility relocations.

• Schedule: Manage the development of the engineer's estimate of probable construction schedule for utility relocations.

Qualifications

• The UDM must have graduated from an accredited college or university with at least a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering or MEP.
• The UDM must have relevant experience performing work on highway design and construction projects.
• The UDM must have a minimum of five (5) years’ experience on Public/Private Partnership type projects, or Design and Build projects.

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