Freese and Nichols · 4 months ago
Senior Heavy Civil Design Engineer - Dams and Levees
Tampa, FL
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
12+ years expFreese and Nichols, Inc. is currently searching for a highly motivated, client-focused, and solution driven Senior Engineer in their Water Resources Design Practice. The role involves serving as a client-facing project manager for heavy civil projects with a focus on dams and levees, leading analysis and design, and supervising a multi-discipline team.
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Responsibilities
Serve as a Senior Engineer and Project Manager for large complex projects
Direct and supervise studies, investigations, and designs. Define tasks to be conducted by others, and provide general supervision, review, and approval throughout each project to ensure continuity, consistency, and quality
Maintain effective communications with client, client’s staff, and regulatory agencies
Provide supervision of a multi-discipline team of engineers, CAD technicians, designers, drafters, scientist, etc., requiring intergroup and interoffice coordination and external consultant management
Keep the project team abreast of all project activities, responding promptly to needs, problems, or requests
Evaluate and analyze design decisions to ensure objectivity, soundness of design, and impact of those decisions on schedule, budget, and needs
Responsible for collecting, correlating, and preparing recommendations and conclusions for reports
Participate in the preparation and implementation of construction contract documents. Track project financials and perform monthly reporting and preparation of status reports
Develop and maintain a quality control plan for the engineering disciplines required to produce high quality deliverables
Develop and maintain the project schedule
Maintain timeliness and technical correctness of a project to ensure high-quality work that meets the client’s budget and expectations
Remain up to date on applicable regulations and related technological advancements. Investigate new areas of technology or new applications of existing design and construction techniques
Qualification
Required
12+ Years' Experience in engineering of dams, levees, and hydraulic structures
B.S. degree in Engineering
Excellent communication skills – both technical writing and oral
Ability to lead, motivate, and manage a project team and oversee excellent quality of work
Registered with the Florida Board of Professional Engineers
Benefits
Paid overtime for salaried employees
An annual bonus
Access to company cabins in Red River, New Mexico
Flexible work environment which includes a hybrid schedule with up to 40% of remote work
An alternative work schedule program which provides a day off every other Friday
Company
Freese and Nichols
Freese and Nichols, Inc. is a consulting firm offering engineering, architecture, environmental science, construction and planning services.
1001-5000 employees
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