Utility Design Coordinator
About The Position
The Utility Design Coordinator (UDC) coordinates the Project design with Utility Adjustment designs, ensuring that both comply with GDOT’s Utility Accommodation Policy and Standards and resolving utility conflicts on the Project. The UDC is a Georgia-registered professional engineer and reports to the Project Utility Manager. The position is collocated at the Project site in Atlanta, Georgia. The role coordinates utility design with project discipline leads and utility design consultants, tracks Utility Adjustment design progress, and supports coordination with Utility Owners and GDOT. It includes reviewing agreements, amendments, plans, and project designs; determining and resolving utility conflicts; maintaining tracking and contact records; and leading utility task force meetings as needed. The UDC also reviews and processes field modifications and verifies that utility adjustment as-built plans are submitted in accordance with GDOT specifications.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, Construction Science, or equivalent.
- 1–3+ years’ experience as a UDC for GDOT Projects.
- Georgia Registered Professional Engineer.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Excellent command of Microsoft Excel.
- Ability to influence and lead the assignment of others.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in highway or road construction is recommended.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate Utility Adjustment design with Project design discipline leads.
- Coordinate with utility design consultants and track the progress of Utility Adjustment designs produced by Utility Owners and/or design consultants.
- Ensure all Utility Adjustment work complies with applicable laws.
- Review Project Utility Adjustment Agreements, amendments, and Abbreviated Utility Assemblies for compliance with GDOT and Project design disciplines.
- Ensure Utility Adjustment as-built plans are submitted and verified in accordance with GDOT specifications.
- Develop working relationships with Utility Owners and GDOT for utility coordination matters.
- Attend meetings, review documents, identify right-of-way easements, research prior-rights and franchise-agreement issues, and collect existing utility record information.
- Determine utility conflicts in accordance with the Contract Documents and assist in developing economical conflict resolutions.
- Maintain a Utility Owner contact and representative matrix and prepare and update the Utility Tracking Report.
- Prepare agendas and meeting minutes for utility task force meetings with discipline task force leads and GDOT, reporting and discussing status, progress, and contentious issues as needed.
- Determine and maintain the conflict matrix and assist in managing, reviewing, and updating the Utility Adjustment Concept Plan.
- Coordinate conceptual Utility Adjustments with other discipline leads and Utility Owners.
- Review and comment on Project designs through initial signing and sealing in accordance with the Contract Documents.
- Review and process Utility Adjustment Field Modifications.
- Collocate at the Project site in Atlanta, Georgia.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package.
- Initiatives designed to support physical and psychological health.
- Career development processes and global and cross-business-unit mobility.
- Productivity tools such as Microsoft Copilot.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
