-: Alright, my name is Kessann Grant.
And I currently work for the Port Authority
of New York and New Jersey.
My current position is the Manager of Design,
and that entails me managing engineering projects
within design division.
So we're actually doing engineering design
for construction projects.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
owns a
variety of transportation infrastructure.
So we have airports, ports, tunnels,
bridges, the path train.
And I work at the World Trade Center,
which is also part of the Port Authority.
So the engineering department is tasked
with doing design work to maintain these infrastructures.
So whether that's asset replacement or repair,
keep it in operation.
So design is tasked with actually preparing
engineering drawings with an engineering solution
to a problem, whether that be we need to do a replacement,
we need to do an upgrade, we need to do a repair.
So I am tasked with managing the project
as it goes through design phase to completion.
Because I'm not actually doing the
technical design work,
my role entails a lot of coordination between disciplines.
So it takes a team of roughly eight to 10 people
to get a typical project done.
You'll have a variety of different disciplines.
So you'll have your electrical, your mechanical,
your architectural, civil.
But then you'll also have your construction manager,
your estimator, your contracts person.
And we're all tasked with doing a portion of the project
so that we could put together one final package
that will go out to a contractor.
So my job is to coordinate all that,
to make sure that everybody's meeting the objectives,
we collectively are meeting our milestones,
problem solving,
and that could be technical problem solving
or people problem solving,
'cause people are just not getting along.
And communication with the client.