Senior Resident Engineer

*This vacancy is only open to 1) current permanent Parks employees serving in the Associate Project Manager civil service title or 2) on leave from the title or 3) permanent Parks employees in or on leave from a comparable title.

*ONLY OPEN TO CURRENT FULL-TIME ANNUALLY PAID PARKS EMPLOYEES*

Major Responsibilities

- Under direction, perform construction management work on several routine reconstruction and/or new construction projects involving varying levels of complexity for the Capital Projects division.
- Negotiate, prepare, review, approve and/or recommend Change Orders of several large and/or complex capital projects.
- Monitor Construction Supervision Contracts and consultant staff perform construction supervision tasks and constructability reviews. Process consultant payment vouchers and supplemental work orders.
- Supervise Capital Projects resident engineer staff.
- Perform constructability review of large and/or complex capital projects.
- Monitor contractors’ day-to-day operations; review and/or inspect contractors’ work to ensure compliance with plans and specifications. Monitor compliance with site safety requirements. Identify and resolve field condition issues.
- Monitor and produce detailed daily and weekly construction project reports and maintain and update calculation books. Prepare and update cost projections.
- Correspond with contractors and clarify/resolve contract issues. Prepare, review and issue construction directives. Collaborate with the design team to clarify project documents and resolve technical questions to keep the project on schedule. Receive, monitor reply to contractors RFI’s. Receive, track, review, and approve contractor’s payment requisitions.
- Schedule, monitor and host various meetings. Prepare and review meeting minutes and maintain accurate records and reports
- Monitoring various contract administrative requirements such as prevailing wage requirements, Project Labor Agreement (PLA) requirements, insurance requirements, subcontractor approvals and MWBE goals.
- Monitor Submittals and for timely receipt and response to required submittals.
- Receive and process contractors’ schedules. Monitor approved progress schedule and coordinate with the work of various contractors, agencies and other third parties involved in the completion of projects.
- Ensure all contractors acquire the necessary permits and approvals before work begins. Track and monitor all active permits to ensure they do not expire during the project lifecycle.
- Review and analyze contractors’ dispute and delay claims; provide objective merit evaluations and recommendations to Borough Construction Directors for resolution.
- Review and analyze contractors’ requests for time extensions.
- Provide formal recommendations for approval or denial based on contract terms, project schedules, and cause-of-delay assessments. Advise if the Agency will be assessing liquidated damages and if other contract enforcement mechanisms are required including default.
- Schedule, monitor and/or host substantial completion inspections. Formulate/verify accurate and detailed punch lists are created. Prepare and review substantial inspection reports. Monitor contractors’ closeout schedule and operations; review and/or inspect contractors’ punch list work; monitor progress of punch list work to ensure the punch list work is complete within the time allotted.