Job Description
The role involves leading utility and site design projects, managing them from conception to construction, mentoring team members, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, primarily focusing on water, sewer, stormwater, and utility infrastructure within the rail division.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead comprehensive utility and site design projects, including water, fire protection, sanitary sewer, and stormwater infrastructure.
- Manage projects from conception through construction, overseeing technical and financial aspects.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams on various utility and building projects.
- Mentor and guide junior team members in design and project execution.
- Take ownership of project deliverables, ensuring quality and adherence to deadlines.
Requirements
- Possession of a Professional Engineer (PE) license.
- Experience in leading comprehensive utility design and site design projects, including domestic water, fire protection systems, sanitary sewer, and stormwater infrastructure.
- Ability to manage projects from conception through construction, including technical and financial aspects.
- Experience in collaborating with multidisciplinary teams on utility and site design projects.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor newer team members in engineering projects.
- Willingness to take ownership of both technical and financial project aspects.
- Experience in utility coordination for building projects and complex utility design efforts.
- Ability to grow project management skills and begin to lead design efforts.
- Experience working on industrial waste systems, potable water design, or similar utility projects is implied but not explicitly mandatory.
- Availability to work out of the Downers Grove, Illinois office as part of the Rail division, with flexibility for hybrid work schedule (in office Tuesday-Thursday, work-from-home Monday and Friday).
- Successful completion of a standard pre-employment background screening, including Social Security verification, educational verification, review of criminal convictions, and driving history.
Benefits & Perks
Flexible hybrid work schedule (in office Tuesday-Thursday, work-from-home Monday and Friday)
Health benefits (medical, dental, vision, and life insurance from day one)
Annual incentive plan (discretionary bonuses)
HSA contributions (monthly employer contributions for HSA-eligible plans)
401(k) match (employer matching on 401(k) deferrals)
Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
Paid time off (accrued based on experience)
Eight paid holidays per year
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