Utility Engineer in Houston, Texas at Consor Engineers
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Job Description
US-TX-Houston
Job ID: 2026-6272
Type: Regular Full-Time
# of Openings: 1
Category: Transportation Planning & Design
Houston
Overview
As a Utility Engineer, you’ll play a critical role in keeping major transportation projects moving forward. You’ll dive into construction and improvement plans to uncover potential utility conflicts, then work closely with utility owners to develop smart, practical relocation solutions that balance cost and schedule impacts. Acting as the central liaison between design teams, contractors, and utility providers, you’ll drive efficient, cost-effective utility coordination on large-scale infrastructure projects. From proactively mitigating utility conflicts to managing relocations that keep timelines on track, you’ll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver innovative, community-shaping civil engineering projects that make a real impact.
Responsibilities
- Create and maintain comprehensive utility conflict matrices to proactively manage and sequence project activities.
- Partner closely with design engineers to identify and minimize utility conflicts, including supporting revisions to transportation improvement plans.
- Draft, coordinate, and manage utility agreements between utility owners and client partners to ensure alignment and compliance.
- Maintain detailed utility correspondence logs for active projects, tracking due dates, document downloads, and responses to major requests ahead of schedule.
- Monitor and update project tracking charts to keep utility relocations on schedule and ensure all dependent utility stakeholders are informed.
- Support project teams by proactively identifying potential utility risks and recommending mitigation strategies to protect project schedules and budgets.
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science in Construction Management, Civil, Environmental or a related engineering discipline.
- Professional Engineer (PE) license
- Working experience or at least exposure to Utility Coordination.
- Ability to read and interpret construction plans and specifications.
- Proficiency in MicroStation or ORD software.
- A valid driver's license with a good driving record.
- This job occasionally operates in outdoor work environments that may include exposure to inclement weather, heat, humidity, noise, hazard, atmospheric conditions, and bodies of water, depending on project requirements.
- While performing the duties of this job, physical demands of the employee may include frequent talking, hearing, standing, moving, walking, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, reaching, handling, grasping, feeling, balancing, coordination, and occasional sitting or operating a company vehicle. This job may require lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling up to 35 lbs.