About the job
AECOM seeks a skilled Senior Utility Engineer to join the AECOM Transportation Investment Act (TIA) Program Management Team, partnering with the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT). This role is pivotal in executing the next decade of projects across the Central Savannah River Area (CSRA), Heart of Georgia Altamaha (HOGA), and Southern Georgia (SOGA) regions.
This position is based in Georgia and supports a hybrid work environment, encompassing remote work, occasional site visits, and travel to meetings within the designated TIA regions. The successful candidate will benefit from the opportunity to:
- Oversee utility coordination for a long-term GDOT program, which AECOM has effectively managed for over a decade.
- Deliver utility engineering services across a substantial, fully funded state transportation initiative, managing diverse project sizes, scopes, and complexities, with a strong emphasis on local and utility owner collaboration.
- Engage with a close-knit, cohesive team that operates as an extension of the GDOT staff.
- Contribute to a high-value program that emphasizes innovation in program and project management while ensuring transparency to the citizens who supported the TIA.
As a Senior Utility Engineer on the TIA team, your responsibilities will include managing utility deliverables for all GDOT/TIA let projects and supporting locally delivered initiatives within the specified TIA regions. A successful candidate will exhibit expertise in the following areas:
- Providing insights on design consultants’ scopes of services, deliverables, and cost proposals concerning utility tasks and estimates, general utility coordination, and SUE.
- Generating and updating annual Utility Cost Estimates as necessary.
- Conducting technical reviews of utility plans at project milestones such as Concept, Preliminary, and Final Field Plan Reviews, and Constructability Reviews.
- Collaborating with design consultants to finalize all utility submittals, including 1st, 2nd, Combined, and PURP submissions as required.
- Ensuring that relocations are accurately represented at all plan stages through coordination with design consultants.
- Working with design consultants, utility owners, District personnel, and other relevant parties to secure all necessary utility permits utilizing GPAS (Utilities).
- Performing thorough reviews of permit application deliverables, including the UAS and Work Plan.
- Providing Utility Certification for project letting.
- Maintaining a tracking database for all utility milestones and deliverables during Preconstruction.
- Coordinating with the State SUE Office on TIA projects requiring SUE as necessary.
- Collaborating with the District to review and concur on utility permits submitted by local agencies.

