Senior Construction Engineer - Northeastern Florida Region

At Whitman, Requardt & Associates, LLP, we are "People Focused and Project Driven". We have been in business for more than 110 years and we are known for our quality work and promoting employee career growth. We are seeking the very best and most talented to join our team of approximately 250 Construction Management & Inspection staff and more than 1,000 professionals.

This is your chance to join our team - help us take on today’s challenges, develop vision solutions, innovate, design, and build the multi-modal infrastructure that transforms the world’s future mobility, safety, and environmental needs!

As we enter our 111th year in consulting engineering, we are seeking individuals who are eager to work in a collaborative team-focused environment where creativity, energy, and innovation are rewarded with promotions and challenging roles on interesting projects and career developing practice building.

WRA is seeking an experienced CEI Senior Construction Engineer to develop and build WRA’s CEI practice in Northeastern Florida out of our existing Jacksonville Office. WRA is a recognized leader in providing CEI services throughout the Mid-Atlantic region, with approximately 250 CEI staff. This position will be instrumental in expanding WRA’s CEI services into Northeastern Florida; implementing strategies for growth for WRA’s Northeastern Florida CEI practice;

developing teaming partner and client relationships; pursuing work with FDOT, local governments, and other CEI clients; hiring and managing CEI staff; performing services on successfully awarded projects; and managing area contracts from successful award to contract closeout.

The CEI Senior Construction Engineer – Northeastern Region will be an integral part of strategizing, growing, initiating and implementing WRA’s CEI practice in Northeastern Florida out of WRA’s Jacksonville Office. The position will collaborate with WRA’s Florida CEI Manager and Transportation leadership team, and WRA’s Executive CEI leadership to develop and implement a plan to grow WRA’s CEI practice in Northeastern Florida, including developing and advancing existing teaming partner and client relationships;

supporting business development efforts to pursue CEI opportunities in Northeast Florida; assisting in preparing Letters of Response for Project Advertisements and Requests for Proposal; leading teams in pursuing potential work and securing project assignments; preparing CEI scopes and budgets for submission and negotiation; overseeing the hiring, managing, training and retaining CEI staff for awarded work; managing contracts and performing technical assignments awarded to WRA on Design-Build and Design-Bid-Build projects with federal, state and local clients and funding sources;

assuring high quality of work and client satisfaction; reviewing and approving invoices; and supporting WRA’s other planning and engineering services in Northeast Florida.

• Bachelor of Science degree in civil or construction engineering or other related engineering degree
• Florida licensed Professional Engineer (PE) or ability to obtain within 6 months
• Minimum 8 years of FDOT Construction Engineering Inspection / Construction Management experience
• Demonstrated experience on a broad range of project types, including Design-Build and Design-Bid-Build, and for a broad range of clients including FDOT and local governments
• Demonstrated business development and client services management experience
• CEI experience assigned to FDOT projects and/or local government transportation projects
• Excellent communication skills required for establishing and maintaining relationships with clients including:
• Client relationship development and maintenance
• Marketing for CEI pursuits and proposal development
• Contract and task management
• CEI personnel management and mentoring
• CEI team building and training
• Construction Partnering expertise
• Excellent oral and technical writing skills including:
• Oral presentation skills for client interviews (In-Person and virtual)
• Proposal writing - technical and task proposals
• Construction Progress Reports for status reports and invoicing
• Construction…