Office Engineer - Water/Wastewater

Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson is a dynamic, 100% employee-owned consulting firm with more than 2,800 professionals, providing a full range of multidisciplinary engineering, architecture, information technology, and related services to public agencies and private clients throughout the United States. JMT is currently ranked #45 on Engineering News-Record’s list of the Top 500 Design Firms.

Position summary

JMT is seeking an Office Engineer (OE) for water, wastewater and utilities projects bridges the gap between field construction and the engineering design team. They manage critical project documentation, compliance, and administration.

Responsibilities include

processing Requests for Information (RFIs), handling material submittals, updating schedules, and ensuring adherence to strict water regulatory standards. The OE position supports the execution of work in the field with a focus on project administration activities. The OE participates in many of the field activities especially as related to safety and quality control.

The office engineer works with the project engineer and responsibilities include the exercise judgment and discretion in making recommendations, implementing policies and procedures, and handling a wide variety of matters in the office such as trade partner/supplier management to administer contract changes (e.g., RFIs and change orders), management of financial accounts, scheduling of deliveries, reporting on production trends, other administrative aspects of the project.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Assist engineers to gather and prepare data for submittal or transmittal to the customer, vendors, subcontractors, governmental agencies, and internal use Support the field through materials management to maintain the project schedule and sequencing. Supervise trade partner employees involved in the submittal and shop drawing process.

Perform detailed reviews and provide approvals of submittals, shop drawings and product data. Create and process RFIs in a solutions-orientated manner. Process subcontract bonds, insurance, pay applications, correspondence, change estimates and potential change orders. Assist with data gathering for the monthly owner pay application and margin analysis.

Enter data into the job cost system and participate in reviewing cost reports with jobsite management Assist in generating change orders and as-built data to be reviewed by the Project Manager Participate in jobsite safety meetings, weekly safety audits, etc. Facilitate the quality control plan and participate in preparatory meetings, initial inspections, follow-up inspections, etc.

Support BIM and VDC coordination meetings in the creation of RFIs, as needed, and review shop drawings from the coordinated model. Perform other duties as may be required