Description:
This position serves as a Project Manager/Civil Engineer within a muti-disciplinary architectural and engineering team. Projects include new construction of Coast Guard (CG) facilities or repair, maintenance, modification or renovation of existing facilities. CG facilities primarily include industrial and administrative infrastructure, waterfront, aids-to-navigation facilities and support structures. Serves as an civil engineer for independent technical reviews, project scoping, field investigation, planning, cost estimating, problem and conflict resolution, scheduling, design production and construction.
Being a CG civilian makes you a valuable member of the CG team. Typical work assignments include:
- Planning specific objectives, milestones, and phases for complex projects, and makes needed innovations and modifications and serving as project manager during design phase.
- Conceiving, analyzing, designing, planning, and executing large and/or complex designs for diverse range of engineering projects primarily those involving waterfront.
- Evaluating design objectives, performs complex technical calculations, and identifies the most economical and efficient procedures for project design and performance considering all influences primarily for waterfront structures.
- Preparing design drawings, specifications and cost estimates including computer aided drawing for both design and drafting on AutoCAD.
- Projects frequently involve urgent technical solutions mandated by critical military operations.
- Conceiving, analyzing, designing, planning, and executing large and/or complex designs for diverse range of engineering projects primarily those involving pavement design, waterfront structures, storm water drainage systems, water distribution systems and sanitary sewer collection systems in accordance with applicable codes.
- Serving as a Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) for assigned projects.
- Reviewing designs of projects prepared by in-house designers, A-E firms, or Design-build firms, for completeness technical adequacy, functional design, sound engineering practice, and compliance with applicable design criteria.
- Developing and writing statements of work to ensure project requirements are met.
- Coordinating with other disciplines involved with each project to ensure completion of the diverse specialty areas.
- Performing field investigations to evaluate issues and concerns with existing facilities to develop recommendations.