Join Ferrovial: Where Innovation Meets Opportunity
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.
Why Ferrovial?
- 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.
- Collaborative excellence: Work alongside talented professionals in a collaborative environment where your ideas and contributions are valued.
- Inclusive Culture: Thrive in an innovative and respectful workplace that values every voice, celebrates what makes us unique and turns differences into innovation.
- Career growth: Benefit from global and cross-business unit mobility, with development processes designed to ensure your professional growth.
- Compelling benefits and employee wellbeing: Enjoy a comprehensive benefits package that rewards your hard work and dedication and take advantage of initiatives designed to support your physical and psychological health.
- Productivity tools: Utilize cutting-edge tools like Microsoft Copilot to enhance your productivity and efficiency.
Job Description:
Job Overview: The Utility Manager will lead and coordinate all work related to utilities for major Design and Build Highways, ranging from $250 million to billions in infrastructure value. The Utility Manager will coordinate a team of design consultants, utility owners, the construction team, and other design disciplines to plan, 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, field utility relocation, 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, if applicable, 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 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, State and local standards, and 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 in Civil Engineering or MEP.
- Minimum 4 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
Seize the challenge. Move the world together! Innovative, creative, respectful, and diverse are some of the ways we describe ourselves. We are motivated by challenges, and we collaborate across our business units to move the world together. Your journey to a fulfilling career starts here!
Ferrovial is an equal opportunity employer. We treat all jobs applications equally, regardless of gender, color, race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, covered veteran status or protected genetic information (each, a “Protected Class”), or any other protected class in accordance with applicable laws.
#WeAreFerrovial
Join Ferrovial: Where Innovation Meets Opportunity
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.
Ferrovial’s activity is carried out through our business units, including Highways, Airports, Construction, and Energy.
Why Ferrovial?
- 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.
- Collaborative excellence: Work alongside talented professionals in a collaborative environment where your ideas and contributions are valued.
- Inclusive Culture: Thrive in an innovative and respectful workplace that values every voice, celebrates what makes us unique and turns differences into innovation.
- Career growth: Benefit from global and cross-business unit mobility, with development processes designed to ensure your professional growth.
- Compelling benefits and employee wellbeing: Enjoy a comprehensive benefits package that rewards your hard work and dedication and take advantage of initiatives designed to support your physical and psychological health.
- Productivity tools: Utilize cutting-edge tools like Microsoft Copilot to enhance your productivity and efficiency.
Job Description:
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Job Overview: The Utilities Design Manager will supervise and the coordinate all design works related to utilities for major transportation projects (min. $250 million/Project) and with a minimum Utility relocation budget of $50 million. The UDC will coordinate a team of design consultants and will provide technical oversight during utility planning, design and construction stages.
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Responsibilities and Duties: List the essential duties required to carry out the job. This should be listed in order of importance and use complete sentences starting with verbs in the present tense
Coordination of Utility Consultant
Provide support to the selection of utility design consultants for the preparation of the tender design works.
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, if applicable, Project Utility Adjustment Agreement (PUAA) language to incorporate into the Utility tender deliverables.
Utility Conflict Matrix
Responsible for identifying utilities and implementing strategies to clear the maximum number of conflicts that could arise. Responsible to gain the maximum understanding of the project and familiar will state’s laws and regulations.
Responsible to review Owner’s documents and define existing utilities inventory, and to prepare and maintain the Utility Owner contact and representative’s matrix.
Identify to the possible extend 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 other tender design discipline leads to address the conflict analysis matrix with the developing design plan work. Determine and maintain conflict matrix which shall include all existing Utilities that are to remain in service/place, be abandoned and to be relocated. Update the conflict matrix while changes are implemented/proposed in the design, warning when a change could produce a significant conflict with utilities.
Coordinate with the Tender Design Manager and the rest of the discipline leads to maximize the Utility conflict avoidance.
Prepare Utility Relocation preliminary design
Manage the development of Utility relocation preliminary design.
Manage, review and update the Utility concept plan in strip map plan format using conflict analysis spreadsheets to map the existing utilities versus the proposed Utility adjustments with respect to the proposed roadway plans. The Utility concept plan shall include the existing and proposed ROW, DOT highway station numbering, plan, profile, bridge structures, other existing Utilities, drainage structures, retaining walls and noise walls. The layout shall be utilized to facilitate the feasibility options for the Utility adjustments.
Coordinate with necessary team members to determine most cost-effective conflict resolutions by assessing the impact of each Utility relocation within the Project corridor.
ROW & EASEMENTS
Review acquired property interest information (easement documentation) from each Utility, as needed, and prepare a property matrix to establish costs associated with the Utility property interest relinquishment and acquisition.
Support of easement acquisition tender services, if required. Prepare anticipated easement ROW areas in MicroStation.
BOQ and estimated Utility relocation construction cost
Manage the development of the engineer's estimate of probable construction costs spreadsheet for Utility relocations.
Schedule
Manage the development of the engineer's estimate of probable construction schedule for Utility relocations.
Qualifications: Include the education level, experience, specific skills, personal characteristics, certifications, licenses, and physical abilities required for the job
The UDM must have graduated from an accredited college or university with at a minimum a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering or MEP.
The UDM must have a relevant experience performing work on highway design and construction projects.
The UDM must have a minimum of five (5) years’ experience of UC on Public/Private Partnership type projects, or Desing and Build projects.
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Seize the challenge. Move the world together! Innovative, creative, respectful, and diverse are some of the ways we describe ourselves. We are motivated by challenges, and we collaborate across our business units to move the world together. Your journey to a fulfilling career starts here!
Ferrovial is an equal opportunity employer. We treat all jobs applications equally, regardless of gender, color, race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, covered veteran status or protected genetic information (each, a “Protected Class”), or any other protected class in accordance with applicable laws.
#WeAreFerrovial