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Are you ready to elevate your career with a global leader in infrastructure solving complex problems and generating a positive outcome on people's lives? At Ferrovial, we are not just a company; we are a community of innovators and trailblazers. Listed on three major stock markets: Nasdaq (US), Euronext Amsterdam (Netherlands) and IBEX 35 (Spain), we are also member of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index and FTSE4Good. We operate in more than 15 countries and have a workforce of over 24,000 professionals worldwide., including Highways, Airports, Construction, and Energy.
Ferrovial Construction is internationally recognized for its capacity to design and build civil engineering and construction projects, mainly in large transportation infrastructure. Its track-record to date includes more than 304 miles of tunnels, 11,930 miles of roads (including 2,485 miles of highways), 2920 miles of railroad lines (including 434 miles of high-speed railroads) and 16,994 miles of road maintenance and repair.
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• Global presence, local impact: Be part of a company that is shaping the future of infrastructure worldwide, with challenging roles and projects that make a real difference.
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• Career growth: Benefit from global and cross-business unit mobility, with development processes designed to ensure your professional growth.
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Job Description:
Job Overview: The Utility Manager will lead and coordinate all work related to utilities for major DOT Design and Build Projects, ranging from $250 million to multi-billion in infrastructure value. The Utility Manager will coordinate a team of design consultants, utility owners, construction team, coordination team, and other design disciplines to plan, mitigate, relocate, and coordinate adjustments of all utilities impacted by the project. The Utility Manager's activities will include tender utility design and conflict evaluation, cost evaluation, coordination with owners, Utility investigation, coordination during detailed design, develop Utility budgets, develop and execute Utility Agreements, implement field utility relocations, and execute Utility closeout functions.
Responsibilities and Duties:
Coordination of the Utility Consultant during tender design.
Provide support for the selection of utility design consultants to prepare the tender design work.
Responsible for managing and coordinating the selected consultant to deliver the tender design product.
Attend and manage utility meetings with construction and contracting staff, and potentially with utility owners, to coordinate various utility issues, including but not limited to agreements, designs, conflicts, meeting minutes, and agendas.
Coordinate Utility design and Utility Adjustment Agreements language to incorporate into the Utility tender deliverables.
Manage the development of the engineer's estimate of probable construction costs spreadsheet for Utility relocations.
Manage the development of the engineer's estimate for the construction schedule of utility relocations.
Evaluate Utility constructability, contract compliance, conflicts with other elements, and evaluate optimizations with Design
Utility Conflict Matrix
Responsible for identifying utilities and implementing strategies to resolve the maximum number of conflicts that may arise. Accountable for gaining a comprehensive understanding of the project and familiarizing oneself with the state's laws and regulations regarding utilities.
Responsible for reviewing the Owner's documents, defining the existing utilities inventory, and preparing and maintaining the Utility Owner contact and representative matrix.
Identify to the possible extent all new Utilities on the Project not listed in the SUE provided. Determine the need to perform additional SUE investigation and coordinate this performance with potential consultants.
Coordinate with the Tender Design Manager and the rest of the discipline leads to maximizing utility conflict avoidance. Coordinate with necessary team members to determine the most cost-effective conflict resolution by assessing the impact of each Utility relocation within the Project corridor.
Manage the development of the Utility relocation preliminary concepts, layouts, and final designs.
Detailed Design and construction
Responsible for managing the coordination of dry and wet utility relocations, from detailed design to construction, ensuring that the utility adjustment process meets the requirements of the Design, Build, and Finance Agreement.
Ensure that utility conflicts are resolved as mutually agreed upon by all parties while minimizing conflict with construction activities and the Project Schedule. Coordinate with other design disciplines to resolve any conflicts between utilities and infrastructure in the most efficient manner.
Attend and lead utility coordination meetings. Serve as a liaison between Utility Owners, utility relocation coordination consultants, and the Georgia Department of Transportation.
Establish, coordinate, and update the schedules for utilities design and utility construction sequence of utility work schedules.
Develop and implement Utility Management Plans
Apply, review and process Utility permits as required
Perform cost management for invoices, accruals, and sub-contracts
Produce written reports, exhibits, and Utility maps on the status of all elements of the utility adjustment process.
Ensure compliance with contract documents, Federal, State and local standards
Develop and implement Project Management Plans
ROW & EASEMENTS
Review the acquired property interest information (easement documentation) from each Utility and affected property owners, as needed, and prepare a property matrix to establish the costs associated with the relinquishment and acquisition of Utility property interests.
Qualifications:

• The UM must have graduated from an accredited college or university with at least a Bachelor of Science degree or Engineering .
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in coordinating complex Utility Adjustments on highway Design and Build big projects.
• The UM must possess the ability to work in a multidisciplinary environment, collaborating with highly qualified professionals from various disciplines, and should be a problem-solving-oriented individual.
• Experience in budget management is required.
• Experience in developing and managing multiple Team members
• Experience in Utility Management for DOT Design-Build Projects

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