PROJECT ENGINEER: ELECTRICAL AIRPORT LIGHTING SYSTEMS CONSTRUCTION

PROJECT ENGINEER: ELECTRICAL AIRPORT LIGHTING SYSTEMS CONSTRUCTION

OVERVIEW

We are a self-performing civil and electrical contractor that installs the spectrum of airfield specialty lighting, signals Surface Movement Guidance Control Systems (SMGCS) and electrical power vault and distribution systems to supply airfield communications. The work we perform includes civil and electrical construction. We need a project engineer, which translates as an assistant project manager or PM in training. We are southeastern by headquarters location, but this work may take place in a broader region, and will require considerable travel and overnight stays. We are smart, very progressive, vertically integrated (civil + electrical), proven and growth oriented. We make money. We reflect a career destination that is superior in every way.

THE COMPANY:

We are a midsized ($50 ? 70 million annually) national contractor operating out of Florida. The founders of the company have been in the electrical construction business for a very long time (generations), but the southeastern location has been home for 15 years.

Pride for us is intelligent differentiation and differentiation is our exceptionally strong and specialized operating divisions. We do commercial construction, we do the airport specialty work, we do utility construction and we do communications work.

Management is visionary. We assess all the elements that impact our markets and formulate a response before we are forced to react to changes in our markets. Leadership is constantly upgrading and refining business plans. For an employee, this means that we will lead. If you do your part, we will find profitable business to pursue. As simple as this is, being flexible and getting ahead of changes are things few self-performing constructors do well. We are the poster children for prior proper planning.

We have run an ethical, high-performance business. We pay the vendors, so we have access to all. It is funny to hear a contractor refer to the select vendors they do business with, when the reality is more like those vendors that were dumb enough to allow the firm to get so deeply indebted to them that continuing to work with that firm is the lesser of several evils.

Our executives come from the trades. We are electricians and engineers. Management style is really compatible with distinguished professionals. You will see excellence in planning and real leadership. Your responsibilities will be clearly defined. Your goals will be clearly set forth, along with parameters for performance from which there will be bonus compensation. You will be given the best tools to do the work, you will be given capable staff, and you will then be expected to manage your business as an independent professional. I know that is a very long-winded way of saying that we do not micromanage and are good at professional delegation, but being free to manage your affairs is only exciting if you are being handed realistic business by management with realistic expectations and backed up property in terms of technology, manpower, tools and resources. Anybody can hand out bad work and leave you to sink or swim with inadequate resources. We will not.

Our airport specialty is unique and so is the staff member we seek. We are often doing this work as a prime and we self-perform the civil portion using our own fleet. With some 400 pieces of equipment, we handle the excavation, lifting, setting and general dirtwork involved in installing vaults, duct banks and setting lights. It is a bit of life on the road, because there are only so many local airports and we work on the really big ones in the region and occasionally the country.

We need a project engineer in the airport specialties business looking to move up but will talk to a veteran as well. We are open minded and willing to listen to your input if the plan addresses everybody?s needs.

Our plans include controlled growth and investing your career with us means career growth. We are committed to providing enough business expansion to offer career progression to our loyal professionals.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

This is the business of electrifying runways and taxiways, and providing the infrastructure for lighting, signage and signals. The work often takes place during the runway construction process and requires really good coordination with the major site work and paving contractors. We, quite literally, cannot hold them up.

Like all public works, all the players on the job bid the work tight, and are there to make money, not friends. While all contractors want to drive the schedule, it is realistic to make certain you communicate well with them, and never hold them up.

We perform ditching, trenching, duct bank installation, install miles of 2? conduit both metallic and plastic and pull and terminate electrical cable from power vault to vault while doing the precision setting of myriad types of highly specialized lights. The standards for this are very precise and the inspections are very stringent. We install base and stake mounted runway and taxiway lights of all types, we install REIL systems, centerline, edge, apron and touchdown zone lighting, we install ODALS, MALS, MALSF, MALSR, and SSALSR systems, we install VASI, PAPI and PLASI systems, we install ALSF(1&2) systems, surface movement guidance systems and FAA signage. If Advisory Circular (AC) 150/5345 applies, we are on the job.

The successful project engineer is a person who has come through the field or specialized training for this specific field. Beyond dealing with administration, communications and permitting issues, this is a training ground for how to schedule values in AIA format and run a government project under financial control employing civil and electrical construction resources.

You will support the senior project manager in every step of the job mobilization and operations process. Planning is a critical element here. While the superintendent is generally in charge of field operations and labor for a project, we will teach great project planning skills and provide an extraordinary sense of the tasks, machinery, manpower and the mix that yields maximum productivity without conflict. Planning out the high-level job strategy and fine-tuning for evolving reality will be a responsibility of the project engineer and PM team. Over-mobilization is undesirable. Having unnecessary bodies and equipment waiting is undesirable. Planning out strategic manpower and equipment allocation requires response to dynamic issues that can be altered by physical site discovery (geology, unknown underground conditions, unexpected unearthing of infrastructure of undocumented utilities, weather and numerous other things.), agency plan changes, and the coordinated trades on the job. The performance of other contractors has to be evaluated and accommodated. There will always be give and take and we need staff that know how to negotiate with other trades on a job.

Below is a list of PM responsibilities and the Project Engineer will participate in a support all of this. Participate in the proposal and presentation processes.
Review, input and participate in the estimating acceptance process.
Prepare schedules of values and review the schedules with upper management.
Generate project plans and schedules and work with the field superintendents on refined allocations of manpower, equipment and required materials on sites.
Liaison to the agency/owner, CPMS, and other trades on the job.
Maintain impeccable project notes and clearly document any conditions that alter production or impact the economics of the job.
Notify the agency in a professional and appropriate way of changes impacting schedule or scope.
Drive the change order process and provide support in estimating change orders.
Get approval for changes as required performing additional scope of work.
Generate RFIs as required.
Manage subcontractors and deal with subcontract terms and conditions reviews.
Provide timely reporting of WIP information from the superintendent, perform WIP analysis, cost to complete and cost accruals.
Coordinate progress with the accounting department and initiate billings for work on the schedules, making certain to capture all additional scope and change order work.
Spearhead the QA/QC process and the job safety process.
Support all planning, administrative, communication, political and business issues from preconstruction to job close out.
The project engineer will support all the responsibilities above and through that process of hands on work will be trained to lead. This process does require some dirty work, and chasing permits, tracking down vendor materials, reviewing document and drawings, collecting information and anything else required in support of overall project management is part of this job. We want a person willing to do some hard and less glorious work efficiently and cheerfully to get where they ultimately want to be as a senior manager. We are NOT looking for ?attitude?.

REQUIREMENTS We need a construction professional that has specifically done airfield lighting construction project work and has technical an managerial experience that includes civil and electrical construction.
We need a person willing to travel to do this work.
We need a person with the professional skills and intellect to pursue a management career.
SALARY, INCENTIVE, TRANSPORTATION, BENEFITS, PERKS
Base Compensation: $62,000.00 - $75,000.00 based on history, working peer level and track record.
Incentive Compensation: We have a profit sharing bonus plan.
Benefits:First tier Health Care plan that covers Major medical, routine health, dental, life and short term disability. Employee coverage 100%, additional insurance for family is a schedule with vesting. You can achieve 100% coverage for employee and family.
Vehicle: Appropriate utility vehicle on sites, all fuel, tolls, etc?
Relocation:We will relocate a right fit person and we will provide a reasonable period of quality temporary housing and will pick up reasonable moving costs.
Review and raise: We do provide annual cost of living Increases based on national statistical data. Merit increases track your position and level of responsibility and performance.
Retirement 401K - - match up to 4% of base salary

Miscellaneous2 weeks paid vacation after 1st year, 3 weeks after the 7th year.
Paid holidays (6)
Per Diem expense and expenses when traveling. We will get you home at reasonable intervals on distant away jobs.
Education reimbursement related to professional necessity
Laptop, cell phone all cutting edge.
TALK TO US
If you have a hypothetic question, pose it. Discussion is not commitment on either of our parts. If you believe you have something to contribute, please talk to us.

EMAIL: ebuild@entermail.net
SUBJECT: RUNWAY

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