Senior Technical Officers - Job Vacancies

Join our winning team! We empower our employees to make decisions and encourage them to take on leadership roles. New ideas from employees are also encouraged. Kedella is a place where you can truly demonstrate your capabilities to your full potential.

Senior Technical Officer’s responsibilities include:

• Conduct construction inspections to ensure conformance to design specifications and building codes and generating reports
• Verify completion of corrections and actions identified
• Attend project meetings
• Manage project design and/or construction efforts, to include schedule, funding, and day-to-day project oversight
• Assist and recommend acceptance/rejection of contractor administrative submittals such as schedules (both bar charts and networks), environmental protection plan, design and construction quality control plan, health and safety plan, accident prevention plan
• For design-build projects, ensure effective communication and coordination between the project manager, design manager, contract specialist, contractor, project technical team, client, and others as appropriate. The post-award responsibility to drive the design-build project including design acceptance lies primarily with the CM
• Assist in monitoring available project budget and time constraints, including relevant cost and schedule growth metrics, and initiating appropriate planning and corrective action as necessary to ensure funding thresholds and impacts to operational needs are not exceeded.
• Routinely visit construction sites to monitor progress and soliciting daily input from the Engineering Technician/Quality Assurance (ET/QA) representatives and CQC reports
• Attend QC meetings including preparatory meetings involving critical work activities.
• Take necessary action to assure contractor's quality control program is provided in accordance with the contract requirements and that three phases of quality control are being utilized
• Based on technical knowledge and coordination with designer and contractor, propose to the Contracting Officer technical solutions to design issues/unforeseen conditions encountered during construction.
• Provide project status updates to senior personnel within the field office or Supported Command
• Manage and evaluate construction contractor performance
• Integrate and coordinate projects with field personnel
• Evaluate, validate, and manage project change requests
• Work proactively with minimal supervision to resolve scheduling issues.
• Monitor scope creep and scope changes.
• Provide official weekly project status reports
• Prepare and distribute project communication with customers, management, integrated project teams, and stakeholders
• Prepare and monitor project schedules and budgets; provide technical guidance and assistance on contracting and construction-related issues; direct design efforts; recommend construction documents for approval; and provide oversight of any follow-on maintenance programs
• Optimize performance, cost, and schedule by ensuring project objectives are achieved on schedule and at the lowest cost compatible with user requirements
• Conduct design reviews with the customer
• Ensure integration of all systems, including information technology, telephone, security, electrical, HVAC, and plumbing
• Prepare Contractor Performance Report (CPR) upon contract closeout

Preferred:

• Extensive knowledge of house and building construction and At least 10 years of experience of construction management