2022 | Chen Moore and Associates

Senior Civil Engineer/Project Manager

January 9, 2022

Founded in 1986, Chen Moore and Associates (CMA), Inc. has grown into a highly regarded multi-disciplinary firm. CMA’s areas of expertise include utility infrastructure, roadway, site development, electrical, planning, landscape architecture, and construction engineering services for both private and public sector clients. CMA’s headquarters are in Fort Lauderdale with offices in offices in Miami, West Palm Beach, Orlando, and Jacksonville. The firm also has project offices in Sarasota, Tampa and Gainesville, CMA currently employs over one hundred (100) professionals throughout the State of Florida, which affords our valued clients top level service.

Senior Civil Engineer/Project Manager (Jacksonville)

CMA has employment opportunities for a senior civil engineering project manager in the Jacksonville Office. The target experience level is eight (8) to 15 (15) years of experience, but candidates will be considered with less experience who have a professional engineering license in the state of Florida. Candidates should be able to efficiently plan and organize workload, demonstrate success working with a team of professionals, a commitment to quality, good communication skills, and a positive work ethic. The candidate would focus on water and wastewater utility projects, but may have involvement in a variety of infrastructure projects for both public and private clients. This role will require travel and coordination with professionals from other offices within Florida.

Hiring immediately with the right candidate.

Responsibilities:

Planning, design, and construction management of water/wastewater infrastructure projects. Projects may include the following: Wastewater Conveyance and Pump Stations; Water Supply; Water Distribution and Storage; and Master planning services including hydraulic modeling.
Managing activities related to project scope, schedule, cost, quality, communications, resources, and risk elements to optimize client service, quality, and fiscal responsibility.
Project outlines, project initiation, project schedules, project executions, and project closeout.
Lead specification and contract document preparation including permitting, and stakeholder involvement.
Manage day-to-day activities of project engagements including clients and project teams.
Successfully interface with multi-disciplinary design teams.
Achieve project objectives including quality/scopes, budgets, and schedules.
Mentor engineering staff.
Assist in marketing business opportunities with key clients and development of responses to RFPs/RFQs.
Develop and maintain continuing business relationships with clients as part of ongoing business development efforts.
Participate in local water and wastewater professional organizations.

Qualifications:

Must possess a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil or Environmental Engineering; a Master’s Degree is a plus, but not required
10+ years of relevant experience is preferred. Less experienced candidates shall be considered.
Professional Engineer (PE) license required
Excellent technical writing skills
Strong client relationship skills
Outstanding organizational skills
Strong sense of urgency, project responsibility and initiative
Ability to work independently and as part of a team
Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills

Compensation: Depends on the level of experience

Receptionist/Administrative Assistant (Jacksonville)

October 24, 2022 Megan Schmidt

CHEN MOORE AND ASSOCIATES, INC. (www.chenmoore.com)

Founded in 1986, Chen Moore and Associates (CMA), Inc. has grown into a highly regarded multi-disciplinary firm. CMA’s areas of expertise include utility infrastructure, roadway, site development, electrical, planning, landscape architecture, and construction engineering services for both private and public sector clients. CMA’s headquarters are in Fort Lauderdale with offices in offices in Miami, West Palm Beach, Orlando, and Jacksonville. The firm also has project offices in Sarasota, Tampa and Gainesville. CMA currently employs over one hundred and ten (110) professionals throughout the State of Florida, which affords our valued clients top level service.

The firm is a corporation with a comprehensive benefits package that includes: Medical, life, dental and vision insurance coverage; 401(k) retirement plans; Paid Time Off; Support for professional society membership; and continuing education.

Receptionist / Administrative Assistant (Jacksonville)

CMA has employment opportunities for an administrative assistant in our Jacksonville office to support to the office manager, project managers and project staff, as well as support the needs of the overall CMA team, as appropriate.

Responsibilities include:

Greet visitors at the front desk
Answer phone calls to main operator extension
Maintain orderly and organized appearance within public areas, such as front desk and conference rooms
Good communication and writing skills.
Quality control for grammar, spelling, and punctuation of letters
Distribute mail and packages to staff members
Coordinate, mail, and track package shipping from all staff
Deliver project and proposal submittals to clients as requested
Assist marketing staff with assembly of proposal submittal packages as requested
Assist project staff with assembly of project submittal packages as requested
Assist with any billable project work from Project Managers (10% target utilization)
Assist Project Managers with any AR collection as requested
Assist and coordinate any meetings to be scheduled for the Office Leader
Track and order all office supplies, including kitchen and beverage supplies
Maintain office equipment and coordinate all necessary maintenance
Track office equipment and office vehicles. Maintain logs.
Assist staff with any changes to cell phone service provided by CMA
Order meals for any staff lunches or events within the office
Organize meetings, training sessions, lunch and learns, webinars, and conference calls
Maintain Outlook calendar for conference room reservations
Maintain office calendar showing staff birthdays, employment anniversaries, planned vacation, sick leave, and location (when working outside of the office).
Coordinate attendance and payments for any staff attending professional society events
Assist with travel arrangements for any staff attending training, conferences, or events
Coordinate with building management for any repair/maintenance issues with office space
Coordinate and distribute all office keys and card keys
Notarize contract documentation as needed
Update new contacts within Deltek database
Handle all files to be archived (scanning and managing items in storage unit)
Assist and guide new employees with completion of all on-boarding documentation
Assist staff with any coordination with CMA’s PEO on insurance, benefits, policies, procedures question
Maintain and distribute emergency preparedness plans to staff on annual basis
Maintain and distribute employee manual to staff on annual basis
Send email reminders/notifications to relevant staff on birthdays, anniversaries, new staff, timesheets, etc.
Works on miscellaneous projects as directed by the Office Leader.

Qualifications:

College degree or college studies preferred, but not required
2+ years of relevant experience is preferred.
Strong sense of urgency, project responsibility and initiative
Outstanding organizational skills
Strong sense of urgency, project responsibility and initiative
Ability to work independently and as part of a team
Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills

Compensation: Depends on the level of experience

Environmental Engineer (Fort Lauderdale)

October 10, 2022 Megan Schmidt

Chen Moore and Associates

Founded in 1986, Chen Moore and Associates (CMA), Inc. has grown into a highly regarded multi-disciplinary firm. CMA’s areas of expertise include utility infrastructure, roadway, site development, electrical, planning, landscape architecture, and construction engineering services for both private and public sector clients. CMA’s headquarters are in Fort Lauderdale with offices in offices in Miami, West Palm Beach, Orlando, and Jacksonville. The firm also has project offices in Sarasota, Tampa and Gainesville, CMA currently employs over one hundred (110) professionals throughout the State of Florida, which affords our valued clients top level service.

Environmental Engineer (Fort Lauderdale)

CMA has employment opportunities for an Engineer (0-2 years of experience) in our civil engineering department based out of our Fort Lauderdale office. Candidates should be able to efficiently plan and organize his or her workload with their team, demonstrate success working with a team of professionals, a commitment to quality, good communication skills, and a positive work ethic. Experience in water and wastewater projects is a plus.

Responsibilities:

· Candidate shall work on various aspects of civil engineering design, plan preparation, permitting and construction oversight while working in a project team environment.

· Candidate would contribute to projects including collecting existing utility data; performing modeling and simulation; site grading; water distribution system; sanitary sewer collection system; drainage analysis; roadway alignment; pavement marking; signage; and erosion control.

· Prepare inspection related documentation including daily reporting and electronic correspondence.

· Prepare project design drawings within MicroStation and/or AutoCAD

· Develop project specific detail drawings.

· Calculate project construction quantity estimates.

· Assist with technical specifications, cost estimates, reports, schedules, and other related tasks.

· Learn and adhere to client-specific standards.

· Coordinate with team members and client representatives.

· Periodic travel to project sites for field investigation and or construction support.

· Project outlines, project initiation, project schedules, project executions, and project closeout.

· Interface with multi-disciplinary design teams.

Qualifications:

· Must possess a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil or Environmental Engineering; a Master’s Degree is a plus, but not required

· Engineer-In-Training (EI) designation is preferred. The expectation is that such candidate would be working towards becoming a Professional Engineer (P.E.)

· Excellent technical writing skills

· Outstanding organizational skills

· Strong sense of urgency, project responsibility and initiative

· Ability to work independently and as part of a team

· Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills

CAD Designer (West Palm Beach)

October 4, 2022 Megan Schmidt

Chen Moore and Associates

Founded in 1986, Chen Moore and Associates (CMA), Inc. has grown into a highly regarded multi-disciplinary firm. CMA’s areas of expertise include utility infrastructure, roadway, site development, electrical, planning, landscape architecture, and construction engineering services for both private and public sector clients. CMA’s headquarters are in Fort Lauderdale with offices in offices in Miami, West Palm Beach, Orlando, and Jacksonville. The firm also has project offices in Sarasota, Tampa and Gainesville, CMA currently employs over one hundred (110) professionals throughout the State of Florida, which affords our valued clients top level service.

CAD Technician – Civil Engineering (West Palm Beach)

Chen Moore and Associates has employment opportunities for CAD Technician(s) in our West Palm Beach office. Candidates should be able to efficiently plan and organize workload, demonstrate success working with a team of professionals, a commitment to quality, good communication skills, and a positive work ethic. The technician(s) will work in the design team for a variety of infrastructure improvement projects.

Responsibilities include:

· Design of municipal public works projects, such as underground utility installation and site development.

· The work will generally encompass all aspects of civil engineering with a focus on water, sewer, drainage, roadways, and grading.

· Prepare construction documents using AutoCAD Civil 3D

· Conform to appropriate CAD standards and best practices

· Evaluate and implement CAD specifications defined by clients

· Perform quantity take-offs

Minimum Requirements:

· 0-4 years of CAD experience on civil engineering projects (water, sewer, drainage, grading, etc.) preferred with a civil engineering consulting firm with similar duties as listed above

· Industry certification or recent Civil 3D experience required

· Experience with other design applications, such as GIS is a plus

· Outstanding organizational skills

· Strong sense of urgency, project responsibility and initiative

· Ability to work independently and as part of a team

· Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skill

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

401(k)
401(k) matching
Dental insurance
Employee assistance program
Flexible schedule
Flexible spending account
Health insurance
Health savings account
Life insurance
Paid time off
Professional development assistance
Referral program
Retirement plan
Tuition reimbursement
Vision insurance

Senior Civil Engineer/ Project Manager (West Palm Beach)

August 29, 2022 Megan Schmidt

Chen Moore and Associates

Founded in 1986, Chen Moore and Associates (CMA), Inc. has grown into a highly regarded multi-disciplinary firm. CMA’s areas of expertise include utility infrastructure, roadway, site development, electrical, planning, landscape architecture, and construction engineering services for both private and public sector clients. CMA’s headquarters are in Fort Lauderdale with offices in West Palm Beach, Miami, Orlando, and Jacksonville. The firm also has project offices in Sarasota, Tampa and Gainesville, CMA currently employs over one hundred (100) professionals throughout the State of Florida, which affords our valued clients top level service.

Senior Civil Engineer/Project Manager (West Palm Beach)

CMA has employment opportunities for a senior civil engineering project manager in the West Palm Beach Office. The target experience level is eight (8) to twenty (20) years of experience, but candidates will be considered with less experience who have a professional engineering license in the state of Florida. Candidates should be able to efficiently plan and organize workload, demonstrate success working with a team of professionals, a commitment to quality, good communication skills, and a positive work ethic. The candidate would focus on stormwater, water and wastewater utility projects but may have involvement in a variety of infrastructure projects for both public and private clients. This role will require travel and coordination with professionals from other offices within Florida.

Responsibilities:

Planning, design, and construction management of water/wastewater infrastructure projects. Projects may include the following: Wastewater Conveyance and Pump Stations; Water Supply; Water Distribution and Storage; and Master planning services including hydraulic modeling.
Managing activities related to project scope, schedule, cost, quality, communications, resources, and risk elements to optimize client service, quality, and fiscal responsibility.
Project outlines, project initiation, project schedules, project executions, and project closeout.
Lead specification and contract document preparation including permitting, and stakeholder involvement.
Manage day-to-day activities of project engagements including clients and project teams.
Successfully interface with multi-disciplinary design teams.
Achieve project objectives including quality/scopes, budgets, and schedules.
Mentor engineering staff.
Assist in marketing business opportunities with key clients and development of responses to RFPs/RFQs.
Develop and maintain continuing business relationships with clients as part of ongoing business development efforts.
Participate in local water and wastewater professional organizations.

Qualifications:

Must possess a bachelor’s degree in Civil or Environmental Engineering; a Master’s Degree is a plus, but not required
10+ years of relevant experience is preferred. Less experienced candidates shall be considered.
Professional Engineer (PE) license required
Excellent technical writing skills
Strong client relationship skills
Outstanding organizational skills
Strong sense of urgency, project responsibility and initiative
Ability to work independently and as part of a team
Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills

Project Engineer (West Palm Beach)

August 29, 2022 Megan Schmidt

Chen Moore and Associates

Founded in 1986, Chen Moore and Associates (CMA), Inc. has grown into a highly regarded multi-disciplinary firm. CMA’s areas of expertise include utility infrastructure, roadway, site development, electrical, planning, landscape architecture, and construction engineering services for both private and public sector clients. CMA’s headquarters are in Fort Lauderdale with offices in West Palm Beach, Miami, Orlando, and Jacksonville. The firm also has project offices in Sarasota, Tampa and Gainesville, CMA currently employs over one hundred (100) professionals throughout the State of Florida, which affords our valued clients top level service.

Project Engineer (West Palm Beach)

CMA has employment opportunities for a Project Engineer (5-10 years of experience) in the West Palm Beach office. Candidates should be able to efficiently plan and organize his or her workload with their team, demonstrate success working with a team of professionals, a commitment to quality, good communication skills, and a positive work ethic. Experience with water and wastewater projects are a plus.

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities include various aspects of civil engineering design, plan preparation, permitting efforts, scheduling project activities, and construction oversight while leading complete project design teams.
Experience should include utility coordination; site grading; pavement analysis, water distribution system; sanitary sewer collection system; lift station design; stormwater management system and drainage analysis; roadway design; maintenance of traffic and phasing; pavement marking; signage; and erosion control.
The role requires preparation of project scopes, budgets, and schedules. It also includes reviewing and approving meeting agendas, minutes, and estimates of probable costs.
The role includes overseeing the permitting processes, coordinating with all agencies and responding to comments and requests for information.
Responsibilities include integrating the internal quality control process on all contract documents for compliance with industry and engineering standards.
Project outlines, project initiation, project schedules, project executions, and project closeout.
Manage day-to-day activities of project engagements including clients and project teams.
Successfully interface with multi-disciplinary design teams.
Achieve project objectives including quality/scopes, budgets, and schedules.
Mentor engineering staff.
Assist in marketing business opportunities with key clients and development of responses to RFPs/RFQs.

Qualifications:

Must possess a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil or Environmental Engineering; a Master’s Degree is a plus, but not required
5+ years of relevant experience is preferred. Less experienced candidates shall be considered.
Professional Engineer (PE) license required
Excellent technical writing skills
Strong client relationship skills
Outstanding organizational skills
Strong sense of urgency, project responsibility and initiative
Ability to work independently and as part of a team
Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills

Compensation: Depends on the level of experience

Billing Specialist

August 23, 2022 Megan Schmidt

CHEN MOORE AND ASSOCIATES (www.chenmoore.com)

Staff Accountant – Billing Specialist (Fort Lauderdale)

Chen Moore and Associates has employment opportunities for a staff accountant/billing specialist in our Fort Lauderdale office. Candidates should be able to efficiently plan and organize workload, demonstrate success working with a team of professionals, a commitment to quality, good communication skills, and a positive work ethic.

Responsibilities:

Process corporate billing through a monthly cycle
Review contracts and ensure projects are properly set up in the billing system. Ensure that billing is set up to meet Revenue Recognition and other Accounting Policies
Reviewing budgets to contracts, purchase order, rates and subconsultant invoices
Prepare and disseminate appropriate pre-bills/financial documents
Communication and process improvements with co-workers and project managers across offices and departments
Issue various reports, as well as other administrative tasks including filing, scanning, and copying
Assist CFO and co-workers in any relevant matters and accounting tasks
Address and solve client and subconsultant questions and issues in a timely manner
Monitor customer websites for acceptance of submitted invoices. Resolving any rejections or issues
Proven experience in high volume complex billing and carry out invoicing procedures via mail, electronic delivery, and web billing
Ensure all clients remain informed on their outstanding debts and deadline
Manage Accounts Receivable & Collection
Communicate directly with clients regarding billing concerns, requirements, and back-up documentation
Work across departments to research and resolve escalated customer disputes and exceptions on billings

Qualifications:

5+ years of accounting experience in the engineering field
Proficiency with Deltek Vision
Proficiency with Microsoft Office products, including advanced skills in Excel
Outstanding organizational skills and able to meet deadlines
Strong sense of urgency, project responsibility and initiative
Ability to work independently and as part of a team
Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills
Effective at demonstrating good judgment and initiative to make sound business decisions based on multiple data sources.

Compensation: Depends on the level of experience

CAD Technician (Fort Lauderdale)

June 29, 2022 Megan Schmidt

Chen Moore and Associates

CAD Technician – Civil Engineering (Fort Lauderdale)

Chen Moore and Associates has employment opportunities for CAD Technician(s) in our Fort Lauderdale office. Candidates should be able to efficiently plan and organize workload, demonstrate success working with a team of professionals, a commitment to quality, good communication skills, and a positive work ethic. The technician(s) will work in the design team for a variety of infrastructure improvement projects.

Responsibilities include:

Design of municipal public works projects, such as underground utility installation and site development.
The work will generally encompass all aspects of civil engineering with a focus on water, sewer, drainage, roadways, and grading.
Prepare construction documents using AutoCAD Civil 3D
Conform to appropriate CAD standards and best practices
Evaluate and implement CAD specifications defined by clients
Perform quantity take-offs

Minimum Requirements:

0-4 years of CAD experience on civil engineering projects (water, sewer, drainage, grading, etc.) preferred with a civil engineering consulting firm with similar duties as listed above
Industry certification or recent Civil 3D experience required
Experience with other design applications, such as GIS is a plus
Outstanding organizational skills
Strong sense of urgency, project responsibility and initiative
Ability to work independently and as part of a team
Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skill

Civil Engineer (Miami)

June 22, 2022 Megan Schmidt

Chen Moore and Associates

Civil Engineer (Miami Office)

CMA has employment opportunities for an Engineer (0-2 years of experience) in our civil engineering department in the Miami Office. Candidates should be able to efficiently plan and organize his or her workload with their team, demonstrate success working with a team of professionals, a commitment to quality, good communication skills, and a positive work ethic.

Responsibilities:

· Candidate shall work on various aspects of civil engineering design, plan preparation, permitting and construction oversight while working in a project team environment.

· Prepare project design drawings within MicroStation and/or AutoCAD

· Develop project specific detail drawings.

· Calculate project construction quantity estimates.

· Assist with technical specifications, cost estimates, reports, schedules, and other related tasks.

· Learn and adhere to client-specific standards.

· Coordinate with team members and client representatives.

· Periodic travel to project sites for field investigation and or construction support.

· Project outlines, project initiation, project schedules, project executions, and project closeout.

· Interface with multi-disciplinary design teams.

Qualifications:

· Must possess a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil or Environmental Engineering; a Master’s Degree is a plus, but not required

· Engineer-In-Training (EI) designation is preferred. The expectation is that such candidate would be working towards becoming a Professional Engineer (P.E.)

· Excellent technical writing skills

· Outstanding organizational skills

· Strong sense of urgency, project responsibility and initiative

· Ability to work independently and as part of a team

· Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills

Preferred Additional Qualifications:

Knowledge of FDOT standards.
Knowledge of Civil 3D and ArcGIS.
Ability to quickly learn and apply complex systems.
Experience with MicroStation and/or AutoCAD.

Compensation: Depends on the level of experience

Construction Engineering Inspector – Civil Engineering (Fort Lauderdale)

June 1, 2022 Megan Schmidt

CHEN MOORE AND ASSOCIATES (www.chenmoore.com)

Construction Engineering Inspector (Fort Lauderdale Office)

CMA is seeking Construction Engineering Inspectors. It is expected that candidates may work on projects throughout Miami-Dade and Broward Counties as well.

Minimum Requirements:

Candidates should have a High School diploma or equivalent and two (2) years of experience in construction inspection for site related projects including water/sewer, roadway, stormwater, facility design, land development, etc. Four (4) years or more of site (roadway, water/sewer, stormwater) construction inspection experience is preferred.
All candidates should possess a valid driver’s license and clean motor vehicle record.
Candidates may substitute a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering or construction management in place of noted experience and qualifications listed above.
Experience with State and/or Federally funded construction is preferred.
Proficiency with inspection related documentation including daily reporting and electronic correspondence is required.
Outstanding organizational skills
Strong sense of urgency, project responsibility and initiative
Ability to work independently and as part of a team
Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills
Highly organized, detail-oriented and able to multi-task.
Proficiency in the Microsoft Suite (specifically Word and Excel)
Foreign language skills (Spanish) a plus
GIS knowledge a plus

Qualifications (Recommended):

CTQP Concrete Field Inspector (Level 1)
CTQP Asphalt Roadway (Level 1)
CTQP Earthwork Construction Inspection (Level 1)
CTQP Final Estimates (Level 1)
American Concrete Institute Certification
IMSA Traffic Signal Inspector (Level 1)
FDOT Intermediate Maintenance of Traffic (MOT)
Nuclear Radiation Safety
Florida Stormwater Inspection Certificate (NPDES)