AECOM is currently seeking a Senior Utility Coordinator located in Fort Lauderdale, FL, to support coordination efforts among multiple clients (FDOT, county, and private), contractors, and third-party utility companies.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Serves as a fully capable professional in the field with minimal direction.
- Develops, builds, and maintains a positive and productive relationship with third-party utilities. Works with the client to establish priorities, monitor progress and ensure compliance with the client’s goals and requirements
- Applies advanced knowledge to develop design procedures software and tools to facilitate high quality cost-effective technical project activities
- develop and maintain project tracking systems for issues and resolutions, and address utility or roadway needs in a timely manner.
- Participate in utility and roadway meetings to promote issue resolution, prepare status reports
- Develops estimates of technical efforts for projects
- Manages communication and collaboration with full design team and client
- Conducts interdisciplinary review of project deliverables and develops estimates of technical efforts for projects
- Oversees the development and implementation of technical approach and the completion of complex work which require the regular use of ingenuity and creativity
- Initiates and creates project designs and plans with responsibility for preparing presentation and design drawings
- Prepares designs, calculations, sketches, diagrams, schematic drawings and working drawings
- Exercises considerable latitude in determining technical objectives of assignment
- May oversee the work of less experienced designers
- Meets with clients and oversees all aspects of the project to ensure client needs are met
- Providing utility coordination services for multiple projects with tight design and or construction schedules throughout the state
- Acts as liaison between engineers, contractors, governmental agencies, UAOs, and the public to resolve utility conflicts
- Oversee and provide guidance to utility coordinators and design consultants for utility, roadway, and railroad coordination efforts.
- Coordinate with FDOT roadway design, right-of-way, survey, construction, and maintenance departments.
- Coordinating with FDOT in preparing Utility Work by Highway Contractor packages (UWHCA)
- Conduct utility coordination meetings, documenting meeting minutes, and maintaining files of all activities for each utility agency
- Schedule and attend office, field, and Teams meetings with utility agency owners
- Perform follow -up of meeting action items to assure effective coordination results
- Lead and assist with preparation of contingency plans for unplanned utility events
- Review FDOT utility permit applications and plans
- Negotiate design consultant scope and staff hours