Carissa Traill

Experience spans multiple heavy highway projects from interstate widening, surface repair, bridge construction, drainage infrastructure improvements, lighting installation, and retaining wall assembly:

• Allegheny County – SR 376(A72) #87778 (March 2024 to present) $70.1 million
• Allegheny County – SR 910(A50) #108501 (May 2023 to March 2024) $8.4 million
• Route 18 T10 – Route 18 Signal Upgrades #88829 (June 2020 to May 2023) $10.1 million
• I-70/I-79 Widening Project, North Junction with I-79 to SR 136 (Beau Street) #75950 (April 2020 - June 2020)

Responsibilities include:

• Determined staffing needs for the project and coordinated with employees for project scheduling including nights, weekends and short staff.
• Mentored new inspection staff on PennDOT resources and procedures.
• Assisted with project paperwork including reviewing staff PSA's for content and payment, drafting work orders and work authorizations, processing estimates and adjustments, completing CUFF reviews, conducting wage rate interviews, completing rotational capacity testing, project accident documentation, and drafting requests for additional funding from DPMC.
• Reviewed PPCC and ECMS daily for required paperwork based on the Pub 408 including shop drawings, source of supply, and certificate of compliance.
• Coordinated with various departments during the construction process including Environment, Bridge and Roadway Design, Utilities, ROW, Maintenance and adjacent construction projects.
• Coordinated field meetings, scheduling across stakeholders, chairing, documenting minutes. Field meetings included progress control meetings, asphalt and concrete pre-placement meetings, property owner concerns, environmental remediation, utility coordination, final inspection, railroad flagging, and meetings with local cities or townships.
• Reviewed the CPM Schedule updates for the project and mitigated potential delays.
• Completed weekly site environmental reviews, ensuring permit requirements are met by the contractor during construction.
• Coordinating with contractors on deficiencies and potential remediation actions.
• Completed traffic control reviews for detours, short term closures, and long term closures. Notified contractor of any issues and completed CS-901 reports.
• Scheduled material testing for the project and setting up sampling for concrete, asphalt and aggregate.
• Tracked utility relocation on the project, mitigating potential delays or claims caused by utility delays.
• Monitored project execution performance against the CPM Baseline Schedule.
• Assisted inspectors with daily construction operations including: drainage, roadway, bridge, utility, ITS, and environmental. Ensured staff understood assignments, resources available, and necessary paperwork.
• Ensured contractors and PennDOT staff were utilizing all PPE and safely working.
• Assisted PennDOT with the preparation of the claim filed by the contractor.

Allegheny County Airport Authority (May 2020 to March 2021)

Responsibilities include:

• Completed Constructability review of the McClaren Site 9 Development. Reviewed 60% design stage and 90% design stage completed by the consultant.
• Reviewed special provisions, ensuring all necessary items were included in the contract.
• Developed a preliminary schedule to compare against the contractor.
• Completed an owner cost analysis prior to bid.

Fifteen years with the New Hampshire Department of Transportation on over $160 million in heavy highway construction projects:

• Salem - Manchester I-93 Widening - reconstruction, widening, and bridge replacements for a 19.8-mile segment in southern New Hampshire.
• Manchester Airport Access Road, Bedford NH - new two-mile four-lane limited access highway, four major bridges, four bridge ramps, two round-a-bouts, and realignments of several existing roadways.
• Hooksett Open Road Tolling, Hooksett NH - reconstruction of the existing toll plaza for open road tolling, updated underground tunnel connecting the toll booths.
• Manchester I-293 Exit 5 Granite Street, Manchester NH - widening I-293 section of the FE Everette Turnpike with four ramp reconstructions
• Broad Street Parkway, Nashua - building new bridge over the Nashua River, and replacing two bridges over the PanAm Railroad

Responsibilities included:

• Managed the Quality Control Program and testing for asphalt, soils, and concrete,
• Organized and conducted pre-construction meetings, progress control meetings, field meetings, winter maintenance meetings, design issues in the field, and project close out meeting
• Inspected precast and cast-in-place concrete operations, steel and concrete girder erection, paving operations, drainage installation, overhead sign structure installation, conduit and lighting for new utility installation, roadway excavation and embankment, erosion and sediment control, demolition of buildings and bridge, and asbestos abatement
• Inspected lane closures and restrictions during day time and night time operations for compliance with the MUTCD
• Assisted with utility relocation including coordination, documentation and compliance with NHDOT Specifications
• Managed change orders, reviewed inspector field reports, completed field estimates, reviewed CPM schedule for compliance, managed RFI's
• Completed project closeout by ensuring record books were finalized
• Completed constructability reviews of subsequent projects and applied lessons learned to the next phase in construction
• Managed project compliance with NHDOT and FHA standards