Assistant Resident Engineer

Bison Rail Systems • TBD, NJ

54d • Onsite

About The Position

Bison Rail Systems is a railway systems engineering firm that works to move your world. Bison Rail Systems provides a unique opportunity to work in a flexible environment with a diverse team of professionals throughout the United States while encouraging growth and fueling passion. Consider joining the herd as an Assistant Resident Engineer.

The Assistant Resident Engineer supports the Resident Engineer in all aspects of the project, with primary focus on the schedule, budget, coordination, procurement, documentation, reporting, contract administration, and project controls. The Assistant Resident Engineer supports field construction, technical coordination, subcontractor management, quality, safety, and client communication.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or related field.
• Five (5) years of experience supporting heavy-civil, railroad, transit, highway, drainage, utility, or infrastructure projects.
• Experience with scheduling, cost tracking, procurement, subcontract administration, and document control.
• Experience preparing look-aheads, progress reports, minutes, forecasts, and change documentation.
• Ability to read civil, structural, drainage, track, and utility drawings.
• Strong Microsoft Excel, Word, and Project skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively and intelligently in person, via telephone, and in writing.
• Ability to deal effectively with others and establish working relationships among team members.
• Demonstrates responsibility, accountability and commitment to established vision, mission and goals.
• Ability to thoroughly and accurately complete complex work, focusing on all critical areas.
• Ability to identify and evaluate existing and potential problems and develop recommendations and course of action to resolve the issues with the appropriate follow-up.
• Ability to manage time and multiple priorities to meet deadlines.
• Ability to act decisively and make well-reasoned and timely decisions based on careful, objective review and informed analysis of available considerations and factors.
• Ability to identify requirements and allocate and effectively use information, time and resources to satisfy objectives and priorities.
• Ability to adapt behavior and work methods in response to new information, changing conditions, or unexpected obstacles.
• Ability to plan and complete assigned work with a high level of accuracy.
• Ability to work onsite and support extended shutdown shifts.
• Pass a background check.
• Pass a drug screening, i.e. negative result.
• Eligible to work in the US.
• Possess and maintain a valid driver’s license.

Nice To Haves

• Engineer-in-Training certification or progress toward PE licensure.
• Primavera P6 and project-management information-system experience.
• Federally funded public construction, earned-value, WIP forecasting, OSHA 30, drainage, RCP, manhole, MSE wall, trackwork or transit experience.

Responsibilities

• Schedule Management: Maintain the baseline and shift-level 33 day shutdown schedule. Integrate subcontractor schedules and update actuals, remaining duration, manpower, and quantities. Identify critical and near-critical paths and produce two, three, and six-week look-aheads. Facilitate updates, quantify slippage, develop recovery plans, and maintain schedule narratives. Track owner, engineer, utility, permit, submittal, procurement, and access constraints and support time-impact analyses.
• Budget and Cost Control: Establish cost codes and maintain original budget, commitments, actuals, forecast to complete, and estimate at completion. Track labor, equipment, material, subcontractor, temporary works, railroad support, engineering, testing, and general conditions. Reconcile quantities and invoices, identify overruns, and prepare weekly cost, WIP, cash-flow, and contingency reports. Maintain allowance, contingent quantity, unit-price, force-account, retainage, stored-material, disputed, and pending-change records.
• Subcontractor Coordination: Maintain responsibility and interface matrices. Track mobilization, insurance, bonds, safety, submittals, schedules, materials, staffing, meetings, minutes, and actions. Compare planned actual manpower and production, document delays and deficiencies, and coordinate drainage, MSE, track, signal, roadway, utility, erosion-control, and restoration interfaces.
• Engineering and Document Control: Maintain and distribute current contract documents, RFIs, sketches, directives, submittals, ship drawings, and calculations. Track the 30-day MSE working-drawing review period. Coordinate responses, control superseded documents, and maintain as-builts, design decisions, and assumptions.
• Procurement and Material Controls: Maintain procurement schedules for RCP, manholes, drainage structures, MSE mesh and panels, geotextile, underdrain, signal foundations, track materials, and signal equipment. Verify dimensions and elevations before custom release. Track approval, fabrication, testing, shipment, delivery, storage, Buy America compliance, and nonconforming material.
• Change Management and Claims Support: Maintain potential change logs and identify RFIs and direction with cost or schedule effects. Collect labor, equipment, material, subcontract, schedule, force-account, notice, chronology, delay, and time-extension support. Reflect pending changes in forecasts.
• Field Coordination: Conduct field walks, verify quantities and work-front readiness, and confirm drawings, permits, materials, inspections, and testing are available. Coordinate survey, testing, access, staging, RCP, manholes, MSE, track removal and restoration, signals, and concealed-condition documentation.
• Quality and Safety Support: Maintain inspection, testing, nonconformance, corrective-action, certification, training, competent person, and daily safety records. Incorporate hold points, coordinate inspection notices, prevent premature covering, and escalate material concerns.
• Client Reporting and Communication: Draft weekly and monthly reports, dashboards, presentations, minutes, decisions, commitments, responses, and correspondence. Clearly distinguish facts, assumptions, forecasts, risks, and decisions required.
• Risk Management: Maintain the project risk register, owners, dates, mitigation actions, and quantified exposure. Monitor MSE panel condition, RCP and manhole procurement, deep excavation, shoring groundwater, utilities, track restrictions, shutdown readiness, approvals, lead times, productivity, weather, and storm-flow risk.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision) beginning on the first day of the month following your hire date
• life insurance
• employer-paid short-term and long-term disability
• employee assistance program
• 401(k) with matching
• PTO
• company holidays

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level