AECOM is seeking a Facilities Engineering Construction Manager to support a five-year, $3.9 billion Capital Improvement Program (CIP) to improve Chicago’s water services. AECOM is the world’s premier infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for generations to come. We work with a wide variety of clients planning, designing, and managing the construction of large- and small-scale water, wastewater, and conveyance projects for federal, state, and municipal agencies and private industry clients.
A highly qualified candidate would be an engineer with construction management experience in large municipal capital improvement programs with Design-Bid-Build delivery mechanism. Experience with managing and collaborating with large joint venture projects is preferred, in addition previous experience with water infrastructure projects is preferred.
The Facilities Engineering Construction Manager will represent the Chicago Department of Water Management (DWM) with oversight to construction of a range of CIP projects.
The responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to:
- Serve as the Construction Manager responsible for supporting DWM with providing oversight on improvement to major water system facilities that include water purification plants; intake structures; pumping stations; reservoirs; hydraulic structures. buildings/structure and large conveyance for raw and finished water supply tunnels.
- Manage construction of water facilities with multi-disciplinary improvements (e.g., electrical, mechanical, structural, processes and architectural).
- Provide oversight to electrical/mechanical equipment commissioning.
- Manage project teams and monitors consultants’ compliance with contractual commitments.
- Manage the process of hiring a resident engineer who are a part of on call engineering firms and field inspector to oversee the construction of projects.
- Work in conjunction with the Resident Engineer to ensure that the work is being executed and performed with the contract documents.
- May manage all phases of construction projects (from beginning to close out).
- Manages the schedule and budget of projects.
- Coordinates and communicates project progress with the client.
- Facilitates and resolves project issues and scope changes with design team and the client.
- Works mostly independently but receives basic instruction on specific assignments, objectives, complex features, and possible solutions.
- Monitors and reports financial and completion status of projects to client.
- Receives technical guidance on unusual or complex problems and supervisory approval on proposed plans for projects.
- Involves occasional field work at facilities related to design and construction projects.
- Manages one or more moderately complex design projects, involving coordination of multiple engineering disciplines, consultants and/or various agencies.
- Supervise other engineering and technical staff.
- Performs such other duties as the supervisor may from time to time deem necessary.