New York Power Authority

Civil Engineer

• Provide construction engineer function in support of a wide range of construction projects and operations and maintenance activities.
• Perform site visits to complete field inspections, condition assessments, and equipment evaluations and develop technical recommendations with moderate complexity.
• Perform occasional emergency response, including outside of normal business hours.
• Independently coordinate cross disciplinary activities for the successful development and execution of projects.
• Focus on awareness of applicable codes, standards and procedures to work tasks appropriately.
• Perform inspections and evaluations to ensure engineering requirements and Authority specifications are satisfied.
• Review designs, specifications, and reports produced by other internal engineers and external consultants.
• Provide direction and review of the construction personnel in the development of the construction activities.
• Work independently on smaller construction projects with smaller scopes and maintain oversight of schedule, quality, safety and scope.
• Working knowledge to be able to inspect in-progress construction work to ensure compliance with the contract documents, specifications, permits, and drawings.
• Ability to read, and interpret construction drawings and specifications to determine if the contractor is meeting the engineer of records design intent.
• Ability to prepare a construction management daily construction observation field report documenting contractor progress.
• Liaison between the Project Management division and the operating facility, and between Headquarters and on-site staff.
• For projects at NYPA sites, act as the Project Management division’s chief on-site spokesperson; maintain harmonious liaison with the operating facilities, clients, local government agencies, community groups, and other organizations.
• Represent the Authority at industry conferences committees or task forces.
• For assigned work and projects, provide supervision of maintenance department(s) staff, and contractors, and prepare and monitor the day-to-day work activities of the crafts.
• Work with planners in scheduling work activities; oversee the safety of employees.
• Review job packages to ensure they are complete and current prior to performance of the work.
• Review completed work, job packages, and work orders to verify all steps are complete and to ensure that all data/information is recorded.

Provisional Construction Engineer II – UG HV 345kV