Project Engineer
Curtin Maritime, Corp.
full-time
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Location: Virginia • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $85,000 - $110,000 per year
Job Level
Junior
About the role
- Leader responsible for all aspects of production & survey within dredging projects
- Provide technical/operational expertise to the operations team and oversight of all surveys to operations and admin teams
- Administer project survey requirements from completion to final approval
- Direct all dig strategy with the dredge management team and develop dig strategy with project management
- Assist Project Manager in establishing, maintaining and performing administrative support for dredging project jobsites
- Generate daily survey related deliverables and discuss survey results with Project Manager and crew
- Perform survey related calculations and analyze survey data to advise/plan daily dredge plan
- Define, generate, and review project requirements documentation within defined scope
- Develop work plans and hazard analysis to ensure safety and efficiency
- Resolve engineering, material and planning issues and ensure implementation of improved engineering processes
- Work with purchasing department on vessel specific purchases and arrange shipments
- Track, analyze and generate reports of project progress and productivity
- Ensure compliance with all relevant regulatory agencies
- Calibrate, troubleshoot & maintain survey and vessel positioning systems
- Plan and coordinate acceptance, progress, and third-party surveys
- Generate volumes for pay applications and provide survey updates for client meetings
- Travel to different project sites and corporate HQ/shipyard in Long Beach, CA on a rotational schedule (2 weeks on / 2 weeks off)
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering (any discipline) or Construction Management preferred
- 1+ years dredging experience as a Project Engineer or similar role
- USACE Construction Quality Management for Contractors (CQM-C) Certification
- RMS competency and ability to update daily reports for clients
- OSHA 30
- Primavera P6 Certification
- Ability to develop SOPs for survey and engineering team
- Understanding of pump dynamics, velocities, pipeline routes, and booster placements
- Proficient in setting up survey equipment such as GPS positioning on tugs and dredge, base stations, and tide gauges with no assistance
- Able to calibrate a survey boat by manipulating settings, verifying equipment communication, perform bar checks, etc.
- Ability to interpret project plans and specs to produce survey deliverables with minimal assistance
- Develops and maintains master volume sheets for projects recording dig/pay, volume remaining, shoaling, slopes, etc.
- Plans out and coordinates all acceptance, progress, and third-party surveys
- Competent in drafting contract RFIs
- Assists in scheduling & staffing of field engineers
- Ability to fill in as Project Manager as needed
- Handles auxiliary management duties when needed such as client interface, fueling appointments, delay troubleshooting, and subcontractor management
- Document and produce data/write ups for change orders, differing site conditions, REAs, etc.
- Generates and submits pay applications in conjunction with Quality Control Manager
- Set up and deploy new dredging and survey equipment
- Analyze geotechnical data
- Develop production estimates for bids
- Acts as a leader and mentor to other Project Engineers & Field Engineers
- Computer literate and proficient in Microsoft Office desktop programs, especially MS Excel
- Skilled with AutoCAD, Hypack and/or other Survey software
- Ability to operate small marine vessels preferred
- Technical understanding of construction and maintenance of marine vessels
- Ability to read and understand technical manuals and drawings, ABS, USCG rules
- Valid Driver’s License with clean driving record required
- Valid TWIC
- Experience in identifying and anticipating design/production work sequence conflicts
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Demonstrated knowledge of scheduling and ability to monitor progress to schedule
- Willingness and ability to spend time onboard the vessel (staircases and vertical ladders)
- Must meet “fit for duty” requirements upon job offer (pre-employment physical and drug test)
- Physical requirements including walking, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, climbing up/down ladders and stairs, negotiating uneven and moving surfaces
- Comfortable entering tanks and other confined spaces
- Ability to lift up to 50 pounds unassisted
- Rotational – 2 weeks on and 2 weeks off
- Willingness to travel to project sites or Long Beach yard as needed
- Ability to work on tight deadlines for project needs outside normal business hours