Project Manager (Dry Utility Coordinator) - Civil

Martin/Martin is seeking a detail-oriented and proactive Project Manager - Dry Utility Coordinator to lead the coordination of regulated utility services during the design phase of civil and land development projects. This role is intended for an experienced utility coordination professional who can independently lead multi-stakeholder utility coordination efforts, manage client and utility provider relationships, mentor staff, support business development, and help strengthen Martin/Martin’s dry utility coordination practice.

The Project Manager - Dry Utility Coordinator will work with the Engineer of Record, design teams, utility providers, and project stakeholders to ensure efficient planning, timely applications, conflict resolution, and streamlined schedules for regulated utility infrastructure such as gas, electric, steam, internet/broadband, and telecommunications services. Project types will include a broad range of commercial, residential, mixed-use and civil infrastructure projects.

About Martin/Martin, Inc.

Martin/Martin, Inc. is a civil, structural, and investigative consulting engineering firm, headquartered in the Denver area, built on experience and industry leadership cultivated since the 1940s. Our engineered solutions are developed through a culture of integrity, service, creativity, and quality for the benefit of our clients and the community.

With ten office locations and a staff of 400+, Martin/Martin engineers have project experience in all 50 states and on all seven continents. (Yes, even Antarctica!)

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The Team

Our Civil Engineering teams focus on site and infrastructure design, including leading projects such as the 16th Street Mall redesign in Denver.

Responsibilities

• Identify existing and potential utility service providers within or adjacent to project limits; request and review utility records, will-serve letters, and service requirements.
• Recommend potholing locations and prepare potholing plans for work to be performed by others.
• Develop and evaluate dry utility master plans, utility corridor alternatives, alignments, joint-use corridors, and utility placement strategies for complex development and infrastructure projects.
• Coordinate utility layouts, equipment locations, easements, sleeves, and roadway crossings with civil, structural, MEP, technology, landscape, environmental, agency, and utility stakeholders.
• Provide proposed horizontal layouts, typical sections, and graphical representations of utility equipment locations designed by utility providers, MEP engineers, or technology consultants.
• Lead utility conflict identification, tracking, risk assessment, and resolution, including utility removals, abandonments, relocations, constructability reviews, permitting constraints, and stakeholder negotiations.
• Facilitate consensus among owners, agencies, utility providers, contractors, and design teams when competing project requirements exist.
• Serve as the primary client-facing representative and lead coordination among utility providers, agencies, municipalities, counties, special districts, contractors, design teams, and project stakeholders.
• Manage utility service applications, utility reviews, permitting coordination, easement discussions, franchise/right-of-way requirements, and utility relocation agreements.
• Lead utility coordination meetings and facilitate resolution of design, permitting, constructability, sequencing, activation, and scheduling issues.
• Monitor project performance and communicate progress, risks, decisions, and mitigation strategies to clients and project teams.
• Manage project scope, schedule, budget, profitability, staffing, work plans, and delivery schedules for utility coordination assignments.
• Coordinate with contractors and construction-phase stakeholders when utility relocation, sequencing, installation, activation, or conflict-resolution issues require senior-level involvement.
• Evaluate utility placement alternatives based on constructability, cost, permitting constraints, future expansion needs, and stakeholder requirements.
• Support business development through proposals, scope development, fee estimating, interviews, client relationship management, practice development, staff mentoring, and market expansion initiatives.
• Lead continued growth of Martin/Martin’s dry utility coordination services by developing internal tools, templates, training materials, and quality-control practices.