Assistant to the President - Higher Ed. jobs in Asheville, NC

• Manage minor and major construction projects.
• Supervise staff and prepare/evaluate their performance.
• Prepare monthly and final estimates.
• Conduct written and verbal communication with contractors, inspection staff, utility companies, and the public to ensure compliance with contract plans, standards, and specifications.
• Evaluate data collected by field staff.
• Prepare technical letters and reports.
• Review contract plans, specifications, and materials testing results.
• Work with minimal supervision from our Resident Engineer.

• Excellence at plan reading, highway engineering calculations, and use of survey instruments needed to supervise the stake-out of line grades for roadways and structures.
• Knowledge of contract administration to ensure projects are done in accordance with NCDOT specifications, standard drawings, and policies.
• Customer service experience resolving problems involving explaining engineering concepts to customer groups.
• Demonstrated ability to understand, explain, and administer highway contract construction projects.
• Experience performing engineering analysis on complex contract administration issues, and the timely approval/denial of these issues through supplemental agreements and claims.
• Experience in training, planning, coordinating, and supervising staff work.
• Ability to safely operate a motor vehicle.
• You promote a safe working environment.
• Working knowledge of the principles and practices of civil engineering and construction methods, materials, and equipment.
• Computer skills including the ability to use contract administration software.
• Ability to understand, explain, and administer contracts, interpret plans, provisions and specifications, train other employees, and plan, coordinate and supervise their work.
• Solid communications skills, verbally and in writing, to establish, and maintain working relationships with co-workers, management, contractors and the public.
• Safety toe footwear.

• At times, you will be working in extreme temperatures and on uneven terrain for extended periods of time.
• We may require registration as a professional engineer by the NC Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors.

• Bachelors Degree in engineering, and
• 3 years of relevant experience; or
• An equivalent combination of education and experience.

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