Job Description

• • Manage and direct all phases of professional/specialized firm contract administration, including chairperson selection,  professional services contract negotiations, project and contract scoping, and preparing/posting ads to the web.
  • Support Engineering Managers and Engineering Supervisors by reviewing labor cost estimates prepared by professional service firms, preparing/reviewing in-house estimates, assisting in negotiating professional services contracts/purchase orders, assisting in scoping projects, preparing ads, preparing agenda items and engineering agreements, coordinating with the OIG and Consultant Audit team, and assisting in preparation for selection committees.
  • Preparing agenda items and presenting to the Board of Transportation.
  • Track outstanding professional services firm workloads.
  • Develop and administer 360-degree evaluations of firms and NCDOT performance on Private Fee-for-Service contracts.  
  • Establish job classifications salary rates for in-house estimates.
  • Execute engineering agreements and enter them into our SAP database.
  • Coordinate with NCDOT’s Office of the Inspector General and Consultant Audit and monitor professional service contracts to ensure Disadvantaged Business Enterprise/Small Professional Service Firms usage and resolve conflicts during contract performance.
  •  Serve as our Contract Monitoring and Tracking Lead, run SAP reports, and establish/maintain our database for performance evaluations.
  • Provide subject-matter guidance to other Engineers in their daily operations.
  • Supervise and oversee other Engineers’ daily work/operations and ensure accuracy of other Engineers’ work.
  • Provide technical guidance to other Engineers on unit policies, procedures, etc. usually acquired on-the-job or in lower-level positions.

• • Experience overseeing professional or specialized firm contract administration including contract preparation, scoping, and negotiation.
  • Knowledge of civil engineering principles/practices, and construction/maintenance methods, materials, and equipment.
  • Experience in transportation engineering design procedures, practices, and techniques.
  • Thorough knowledge of the organization and responsibilities of the NCDOT Units.
  • 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, interpret plans, provisions and specification, train other staff and plan, coordinate, and supervise their work.
  • Thorough knowledge of internal organizational structure, business needs/objectives, budget, planning, and legal/public relations considerations.
  • Skills to make final approval for complex and a broad variety of program/project specifications for completeness, compatibility, compliance with engineering principles, standards, codes, and design needs.
  • Research skills to identify alternatives and designs or analyze special details for nonstandard items of work for programs/projects.
  • Ability to determine program/project priorities, processes, and procedures.
  • Project Management skills to coordinate complex/broad scopes of programs/projects for completeness, compatibility, compliance with engineering principles, and design needs and standards.
  • Troubleshooting skills to resolve/approve major project/program changes.
  • Decision-making skills to independently make final recommendations and make decisions requiring specialized engineering and/or program knowledge.
  • Ability to serve as technical expert in professional services and represent NCDOT as an expert with regard to compliance with engineering principles, standards, codes, designs, and statutes, and address conflicting design constraints.
  • Adaptability to modify delivery, language, or content to account for the characteristics and needs of different audiences.
  • Verbal and written communications mastery to clearly, concisely, and in an organized manner craft reports addressing novel or complex engineering concepts and facts such as standards/practices/codes/regulations.
  • Ability to participate and lead as needed in development of long-range strategic goals.

• • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, and
  • 4+ years of relevant experience; or
  • An equivalent combination of education and experience.

• • We may require you to be registered as a professional engineer by the NC Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors.

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