Orrin James

• Maintained safe working environment by enforcing rules and regulations.
• Controlled engineering activities to maintain work standards, adhere to timelines and meet quality assurance targets.
• Defined engineering problems, collected data, established facts and drew conclusions to solve project issues.
• Maintained project schedule by monitoring employee performance.
• Prepare, review and/or approve proposals, contracts or cost estimates
• Negotiate revisions, changes and additions to contractual agreements
• Perform independent reviews of work performed by engineers including calculations
• Ensure any conflicts pertaining to a project were handled efficiently and fair
• Maintained public relations with the village engineers, residents and motorist
• Ensured all engineers on my team were thorough trained on the principles of highway construction

Across tenure, responsible for organizing and executing a broad range of large projects from $250,000- $10,000,000 +, managing crews up to 12 IDOT engineers, consultants and summer interns. Worked on challenging assignment that included investigating, trouble-shooting and solving a wide variety of engineering and construction related issues.

• Responsible for managing a team of up to 8 IDOT engineers
• Assisted in designing work for roads,bridges and preparing cost estimates for various project alternatives and developing project scope
• Performed technical research/investigation, coordinating engineers on projects and analyzed development plans
• Prepared and reviewed quantity measurements and calculations
• Reviewing of draft plans and specifications along with monitoring construction activity

• Monitored daily activity of various job sites
• Provided Resident Engineers with daily diary reports
• Ensured contractors were in compliance with IDOT specifications
• Performed concrete and asphalt test
• Kept Resident Engineer abreast of any problems that occurred on job site and in their absence prepared pay estimates and authorizations

• Performed work according to project schedules and high quality standards.
• Completed projects by effectively applying engineering, technical and maintenance procedures.
• Inspected various paving operations, concrete pours and drainage structure repairs
• Applied engineering principles to develop and operate electrical, mechanical and data processing systems.