Serving on the $1.8 Billion Portal North Bridge project under the Gateway Program. The NJ TRANSIT in cooperation with the Gateway Program Development Corporation, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak), is constructing a new, two-track fixed structure railroad bridge across the Hackensack River in Hudson County, New Jersey, along the Northeast Corridor (NEC). The Portal North Bridge project involves replacing the existing 110-year-old two-track railroad swing bridge over the Hackensack River, with a new fixed bridge carrying two new tracks, allowing boats to pass underneath without the need to open and close. A new bridge will also permit higher track speeds and increased capacity and save millions of dollars in maintenance costs. A two-track replacement bridge – Portal North – will replace this outdated relic with a modern, high-level fixed span that does not open or close, eliminating the movable components and risk of malfunction. The new bridge will rise 50 feet over the river and, including the approaches, span nearly 2.5 miles of the Northeast Corridor.

RESPONSIBILITY:

Project Controls: Reviewing Contractor’s resource and cost-loaded CPM schedule (Baseline and Monthly Updates) for logic, contract compliance, schedule progress, and assessing impacts to the critical/near-critical path activities. Prepare weekly and monthly reports using various KPI graphs for the upper management showing the productivity and performance. Prepare progress presentations for upper management and various stakeholders. Generate earned value, SPI, CPI, and other schedule performance metrics. Maintain issues and change order logs. Assist in determining entitlement and assign priorities to estimators. Review change orders from general contractors for scope, cost, and schedule accuracy. Coordinate with the estimating team in preparation of cost estimates for civil, structural, architectural, and electrical disciplines. Assist in estimating and negotiating potential change orders. Reconcile program and project control data with the client's fiscal and financial controls systems. Analyze projects to ensure that project funding is adequate by performing estimates, cost forecasts, cost trends, and accrual of actual costs.

Contract Administration: Jois Construction Management is responsible for the evaluation of change orders, cost estimates, schedule impact analysis, and the review and recommendation of claims, coordination of shop drawings reviews, providing prompt responses to Request for Information (RFI’s) and, the timely and safe completion of the Project within the approved schedule. Daily Contractor Meetings, Bi-Weekly Contractor Progress Meetings, Schedule Update Meetings, Monthly Project Management Meetings, maintain a meeting log which will be included in the monthly progress reports. Monitor and report the performance of DBE subcontractors on our CMC Team to NJ Transit’s Office of Business Development (PBD) for review and compliance with established DBE goals.