Road Construction Supervisors oversee the done at a road construction site, including managing construction crews, inspecting ongoing work, ensuring adherence to state and local codes, arranging for necessary equipment, and keeping construction project costs at or, if possible, under budget. Road construction supervisors are responsible for the projects from beginning to end, including staffing, budgets, maintaining policies, keeping the site safe and maintaining a set schedule.
Mid Level
Highway Maintenance Technician II
Highway Maintenance Technicians are responsible for maintaining local roads and streets in a given area, ensuring that requests for repairs are actioned and that all highways and footways are well maintained. Also, Technicians design highways maintenance schemes to cover resurfacing, drainage repairs and improvements to roads and footpaths, inspect roads to identify structural defects and safety issues, calculate costs of maintenance, analyze the impact maintenance work will have on the environment, investigate maintenance requests submitted by members of the public. To produce technical drawings and specifications, Technicians use CAD (computer-aided design) technology. Lastly, Highway Maintenance Technicians oversee practical maintenance of roads and streets, direct traffic during repair operations, perform roadside landscaping including clearing weeds and trimming trees, sweep debris from surfaces and structures, spread sand, asphalt, gravel, and clay, clean and repair drainage systems, bridges, tunnels, and other structures.
Construction Engineer
A Highway Construction Engineer is responsible for overseeing roadway projects to completion, on time and within budget. Duties include field layout of projects, general inspection, project management, working with staff, and communicating with clients. The Engineer may be called upon to assist in design engineering duties including: preparing reports, plans, and specifications; researching design standards and code requirements; and conducting field investigations of design problems. The Engineer collaborates with other engineers, technicians, planners, and surveyors.
Other responsibilities typically include:
- Control and/or review all project forecasts, schedules, cost estimates, and reports.
- Prepare construction cost estimates, project budgets, schedules, or specifications for labor or materials.
- Prepare reports and conduct studies of engineering methods, codes, processes, and materials.
- Participate in contract bidding, negotiation, or administration.
- Responsible for quality control. Investigate or test construction materials to determine compliance with specifications or standards including environmental standards.
- Inspect completed transportation projects to ensure safety or compliance with applicable standards or regulations including environmental regulations.
- Confer with contractors, utility companies, and the public.
- Conduct feasibility and operating studies aimed at evaluating alternative innovative designs.
- Develop plans to deconstruct damaged or obsolete roadways or other transportation structures.
Maintenance Engineer, Bridge
Maintenance Engineers, Bridge focus their work on directing the city-wide bridge inspection, maintenance and repair program and the operation of bridges. Maintenance engineers, bridge are responsible for planning the overall inspection, maintenance and repair program for City-owned bridges and recommending priorities for contracted repair work. They also act as assistant to the Assistant Chief Highway Engineer Maintenance and serves in this capacity as required by absence and are responsible for directing subordinate supervisors, contact with other agencies and the provision of engineering interpretations to resolve bridge maintenance and repair problems are of major significance to the work. Work is performed under the direction of an engineering superior.
Project Manager (Transit)
A Transit Project Manager is responsible for the leadership and management of team in support of the project’s profitable operation as well as proactively managing the project’s technical budget (direct labor and expenses, including technical sub-consultants), schedule, technical requirements, contractual obligations, and project communications. Transit Project Managers actively manages project scope, schedule and budget, and serve as the primary client liaison to bring the schedule, budgets and scope of work to completion and to the client’s satisfaction. Also, Managers perform technical discipline tasks including research, reports, design, specification and plan preparation to ensure the most efficient and cost-effective execution of assigned projects. Transit Project Managers implement the firm’s project delivery plan using HNTB’s Sophisticated Delivery Approach (SDA) on each project while developing project scope and fee quotation, and assists in the preparation of proposals and contracts. Finally, Transit Project Manager coordinates work efforts and reviews of work performed by project team, and supervises and mentors team to overall project objectives.