Utility Coordinator
Company Overview
We are a heavy highway and infrastructure contractor delivering complex DOT projects with a focus on safety, schedule, and quality. Our teams work on high-visibility transportation improvements that keep communities connected and the traveling public moving.
On our projects, utilities are often on the critical path. We place a high value on professionals who can coordinate multiple stakeholders, keep utility issues on track, and help our field teams build safely and efficiently.
The Opportunity
As a Utility Coordinator on a major heavy highway project, you will be the primary link between the construction team and utility owners and agencies. Your work will directly influence whether key phases of the project stay on schedule and whether field crews can work safely and without avoidable delays.
This role is ideal for someone who understands the realities of civil construction and wants to move into a coordination and problem-solving role—owning the utility picture, driving resolutions, and becoming a go-to resource for project leadership.
What You'll Do
- Serve as the primary point of contact with utility owners and agencies, coordinating all utility-related matters with project management, field leadership, engineers, and subcontractors.
- Proactively pursue answers and resolve utility conflicts, relocations, and outstanding decisions with utility owners, designers, and subcontractors, escalating issues that threaten project progress.
- Develop and maintain an accurate utility tracker covering conflicts, relocations, open items, responsible parties, required actions, and anticipated impacts, and provide regular updates to project leadership.
- Participate in weekly progress meetings with NYSDOT and quality control, providing clear utility status updates, documenting commitments, and following up on action items.
- Coordinate upcoming utility activities and constraints with superintendents and foremen so field sequencing, markouts, and clearances are planned in advance and construction delays are minimized.
What Success Looks Like
- Within the first 3–6 months, you have a reliable, up-to-date utility tracker in place, and project leadership consistently uses it to understand risks, decisions, and schedule impacts.
- Utility conflicts and relocations are identified early, with clear next steps and responsibilities documented, reducing last-minute disruptions to critical construction activities.
- Weekly NYSDOT and internal meetings include concise, accurate utility updates, with commitments captured and closed out in a timely manner.
- Field teams report fewer utility-related delays, and utility owners recognize you as a responsive, professional coordinator who follows through on issues until resolution.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of experience in utility coordination, field engineering, or a comparable role on heavy civil or DOT infrastructure projects.
- Working knowledge of utility conflicts, relocations, access constraints, shutdown coordination, and utility-owner interfaces, particularly involving telecommunications, fiber, electric, and gas.
- Familiarity with Dig Safely New York, 16 NYCRR Part 753, OSHA excavation and power-line clearance requirements, and utility clearance procedures, with a clear understanding of field and utility-owner responsibilities.
- Strong organization, accurate issue tracking, persistent follow-through, and clear, professional communication with utility representatives, field teams, project leadership, engineers, and subcontractors.
Compensation and Benefits
- Compensation and benefits will be discussed during the interview process.
- Benefits may include health, retirement, and paid time off.
- Full-time employment.
- Project-based field and office presence as required.
How to Apply
If you have the experience and judgment to keep complex utility work aligned with heavy highway construction, please submit your resume and a brief summary of your relevant project experience through this posting.