HNTB
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CEI Manager

Location
Nashville, TN (City Center) · On-site
Job type
Full-time
Level
Lead / Staff
Experience
8+ years
Education
Bachelor's degree
Listed
13 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

  • Coordination and monitoring of highway, road, and bridge construction
  • Ensuring construction conforms to design specifications and drawings
  • Schedule and budget management
  • Contract and plans/specifications interpretation
  • Change order development and negotiation
  • Project controls oversight
  • Submittal review for conformance

Also useful

  • Proposal and presentation development
  • Business development for strategic and mini-mega projects
  • Construction staff recruitment, hiring, and retention
  • Experience with State and Local agency projects
  • Sophisticated Contracting/Delivery/Sales Approach methodologies

What We're Looking For

  • At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us.
  • For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country.
  • With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners.

This opportunity entails being responsible for coordination and monitoring of highway, road and bridge construction activities for both State and Local agencies. The successful candidate will ensure that construction is performed in accordance with design specifications and technical drawings are completed within budget, and on schedule. Typically responsible for running projects up to $10M in construction value and key role in mini-mega project pursuits.

What You'll Do

  • Responsible for development of the project scope and fee quotation and assists in the preparation of technical proposals and contracts in accordance with HNTB's Sophisticated Contracting Approach (SCA).
  • Coordinates project activities establishes priorities and staff to jobs. Prepares Summary Inspection Report of Daily activities. Monitors contractor progress and compares with the reviewed progress schedule. Resolves technical field issues, and coordinates with Architects and Engineers for timely and accurate responses to requests for information.
  • Oversees project controls, including checking contractors' controls and coordinating schedules, reviews constructors schedule.
  • Reviews submittals for conformance to plans and specifications. Develops strategies with the contractor to create submittal packages that conform to schedule requirements.
  • Implements the firm's project delivery plan using HNTB's Sophisticated Delivery Approach (SDA) on each project. Leads the development and the execution of the project management plan. Supervises and mentors team to overall project objectives. Identifies and resolves non-compliant work.
  • Provides interpretation and enforcement of contract plans and specifications. Develops strategies with the contractor to create submittal packages that conform to schedule requirements.
  • Confirms change order requests, develops estimates, negotiates costs, and writes change orders.
  • Provides cost control on projects and quality control within discipline.
  • Partners with Client Service Leaders and pursuit champions to assist with business development, building client relationships, and pursuit efforts for strategic and mini-mega projects in accordance with HNTB's Sophisticated Sales Approach (SSA). Works with the project team and marketing resources to prepare appropriate proposal and presentation materials. Leads proposal development and interview presentations for strategic and mini-mega projects to the client as well as general presentations within the industry and community.
  • May be responsible for the recruitment, hiring, development, and retention of construction staff, including development of plan for staff reporting, performance and compensation reviews, and succession.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

What You'll Need

  • Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Architecture, Engineering, or relevant degree and 8 years relevant experience, or
  • In lieu of education, 12 years of relevant experience.

What You'll Bring

  • Winning, contracting, and successfully delivering 4for4 (on-time, on-budget, quality, client satisfaction) on smaller projects. Identifying and escalating risk and change management issues, with oversight from more experienced staff.
  • Leading a team for a smaller project or task order with no or few subconsultants.
  • Using system tools to manage, monitor, and deliver smaller projects or task orders.
  • Leveraging the Office Management Team to assist in implementing HNTB Sophisticated processes as applicable to the project.
  • Interfacing with your client-level peer on a smaller project or task order.
  • Providing technical guidance to team and task leads as well as performing portions of the technical work.

What We Prefer

  • 9 years relevant experience.
  • In lieu of education, 13 years of relevant experience.
  • Professional Engineer (PE), Certified Construction Manager (CCM), or National Institute for Certification in Engineering Technologies (NICET) Level III

Benefits

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  • Visa sponsorship is available for this position.
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  • Locations: Nashville, TN (City Center)......................

Notice to Third-party Agencies

HNTB does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or agencies. Any staffing/employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume to this site does so with the understanding that the applicant's resume will become the property of HNTB. HNTB will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion and without any fee owed to the submitting staffing/employment agency, person or entity. Staffing/employment agencies who have fee agreements with HNTB must submit applicants to the designated HNTB recruiter to be eligible for placement fees.

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