Senior Engineer - Professional Services Team

Senior Engineer - Professional Services Team

How to ApplyYou MUST apply at s bit.ly 3nUisuM by November 19 2021 at Midnight EST to be considered. NCDOT is a Great Place to Work.Don t take our word for it. Read what our people are saying at s bit.ly NCDOTGreatPlaceToWork.We are the highest rated state agency for employee satisfaction on Glassdoor with 200 reviews. The ChallengeWe are looking for an experienced engineer to join our Professional Services Management team in our Raleigh headquarters. This team is responsible for Professional or Specialized Services Firm selection contract preparation and execution performance evaluation and rating workload tracking and contract conflict claim resolution. We manage the overall administration and management of all professional service contracts for all modal divisions across all of NCDOT. In this role you will manage and direct all phases of professional or specialized firm contract administration including Selection of the chairperson. Negotiation of professional services contracts. Scoping projects and contracts. Preparing ads and web postings. Preparing agenda items and presenting to Board of Transportation. Tracking outstanding workloads for professional services firms. Developing and administering a 360-degree evaluation of firms and NCDOT performance on PSSF contracts. Establishing salary rates for job classifications for in-house estimates and executing engineering agreements and entering data into SAP. Coordinating with NCDOT s Office of the Inspector General and Consultant Audit and monitor professional service contracts to ensure Disadvantaged Business Enterprise and Small Professional Services Firms (DBE SPSF) usage Resolving conflicts during contract performance. Supporting Engineering Managers and Engineering Supervisors by Reviewing work cost estimates prepared by professional service firms. Preparing reviewing in-house estimates. Assisting in negotiating professional services contracts purchase orders and scoping projects. Preparing ads agenda items and engineering agreements. Coordinating with the Office of Inspector General and Consultant Audit Units. Assisting in preparation for selection committees. Serving as the Lead Worker for Contract Monitoring and Tracking. Running SAP reports and establishing maintaining our database for performance evaluations. Contributing subject-matter guidance to Engineers in their daily operations. Supervising and overseeing other Engineers daily work and operations. Ensuring accuracy of other Engineers work. Providing technical guidance to other Engineers on NCDOT policies and procedures usually acquired on the job or in a lower level position in the same or similar career path. What You BringExperience overseeing professional specialized firm contract administration in contract preparation scoping and negotiation. Knowledge of the principles and practices of civil engineering construction and maintenance methods materials and equipment. Experience in transportation engineering design procedures practices and techniques. Thorough knowledge of NCDOT unit organization and responsibilities. Experience interpreting policies procedures regulations and laws and preparing legally sound documents. Experience planning developing scheduling tracking and completing projects independently or with limited supervision. Computer skills in SAP and Microsoft SharePoint. Ability to understand explain and administer contracts. Skills interpreting plans provisions and specifications. Ability to train other employees and plan coordinate and supervise their work. Ability to make final approval for complex or broad variety scope of program project specifications for completeness compatibility compliance with engineering principles standards codes and design needs. Skills to research alternatives and designs or analyze special details for nonstandard items of work for programs projects. Project management skills to determine program project priorities processes and procedures. Ability to manage complex or broad variety scope of programs projects for completeness compatibility compliance with engineering principles and design needs and standards. Decision-making skills to resolve approve major project program changes. Ability to independently make final recommendations and decisions that require specialized engineering and or program knowledge. Ability to serve as technical expert and represent NCDOT as an expert in the compliance with engineering principles standards codes designs and statutes and address conflicting design constraints. Strong verbal and written communication skills to modify delivery language or content to account for the characteristics and needs of different audiences. Writing skills to document clearly concisely and in an organized manner reports addressing novel or complex engineering concepts and facts such as standards practices codes regulations. Interest and ability to participate and lead as needed in the development of long-range strategic goals. Education and ExperienceBachelor s degree in engineering and 4 years of relevant experience or An equivalent combination of education and experience. NoteWe may require you to be registered as a professional engineer by the NC Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors. Questions Call me Claire Chiancone at 919-707-6309. Connect to NCDOT Careers atLinkedIn s linkedin.com in ncdot-careers See all NCDOT jobs at s bit.ly ncdotjobs