The Project Engineer will support the successful execution of bridge construction projects, ensuring that all phases are completed professionally, on schedule, within budget, and in adherence to contract requirements. This role prioritizes safety while maintaining high-quality standards.
Key Responsibilities:
Project Coordination: Develop strong relationships with executive management, subcontractors, craftsmen, and owner representatives to achieve project goals.
Field Supervision: Provide leadership in coordinating field labor, subcontractors, and vendors to ensure project requirements are met.
Communication & Documentation: Maintain constant communication on project schedules, issues, change orders, and submittals. Effectively communicate quality standards to subcontractors and vendors.
Procurement & Estimating: Responsible for procuring construction materials, managing project equipment, and assisting with project estimating.
Subcontractor & Vendor Management: Oversee the coordination of subcontracts, drawings, and specifications to ensure timely and accurate project execution.
Budget Management & Cost Control: Establish and manage project budgets, monitor costs, identify causes of cost variances, and work to eliminate negative variances. Proactively identify project risks and implement mitigation strategies.
Quality Control & Assurance: Perform systematic quality control and quality assurance checks to ensure project standards are met.
Safety Management: Ensure adherence to company safety programs, OSHA standards, and maintain job site cleanliness.
Scheduling & Reporting: Create and manage project schedules, prepare daily timecards, and provide weekly progress reports including photos. Ensure effective document control (RFIs, submittals, change orders, etc.).
Field Operations Management: Oversee and manage overall field operations, ensuring smooth execution of day-to-day activities.
This position requires strong organizational, communication, and leadership skills, along with a commitment to maintaining a safe, efficient, and high-quality work environment.
Qualifications and Education Requirements:
•Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering or Construction Management required
•1+ year of relevant experience
•Experience working with one or more of the following state agencies: RIDOT MassDOT, CTDOT,RITBA, MBTA
•Knowledge and working proficiency of MS Office, Primavera, and Procore
•Possess a valid driver’s license
•Ability to work extended hours, nights, and weekends as project schedule requires
The Project Engineer will be able to use the following applications and tools:
Aetna Bridge Company is an acknowledged leader in significant New England infrastructure projects specializing in highway bridge construction and rehabilitation, marine construction and demolition services. This Rhode Island company provides quality comprehensive construction services to various state highway departments, cities, towns, private developers and port authorities in Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Since 1945, the family-owned business has successfully completed over 1,450 bridge and highway projects.
Aetna Bridge Company is committed to providing the highest levels of customer service and quality construction to its clients, ensuring a safe and secure place to work, creating partnerships with its subcontractors and vendors to improve quality and lower costs, and maintaining the highest levels of integrity, professionalism, and ethics. Aetna Bridge Company has a full complement of aerial, marine, demolition, concrete placement, and excavation equipment. Our warehouse facility is stocked with bridge repair materials and equipment including: structural steel beams and tubing, timber cribbing, shielding materials, traffic control equipment, forklifts, Bid-Wel...l concrete finishing machine, aerial lifts, light towers, generators, and compressors. All of Aetna Bridge’s project managers are degreed civil engineers and have at least ten years of field experience. These qualities give us the ability to technically collaborate with design engineers and consultants. Our foremen and work crews are experienced and knowledgeable in all phases of bridge construction and repair. Our experience, know-how, and resources allow us to tackle the most challenging bridge construction projects.
