Peter Mon, 27
Assistant project manger at Skanska
Peter Mon’s formidable career trajectory started modestly. The Long Island native worked on sites as a laborer after high school.
“I realized at that time that construction was my passion,” he said.
So, Mon switched up his focus at Farmingdale State College to study construction management engineering technology. He finished his degree in December 2019, while simultaneously working for a contractor on a New York City Department of Transportation project along Riverside Drive. Mon jumped at an opportunity to join construction giant Skanska in a Boston-area role in 2020.
His work there — first as a project engineer and, since a March promotion, as an assistant project manager — have included major infrastructure projects. Mon was part of the construction of a new mass transit rail stop in the Boston suburb of Brookline, work for which wrapped in early 2022 and was connected to Skanska’s expansion of a nearby high school.
Mon was also an engineer on one of the bigger transportation projects in Massachusetts in ages. The South Coast Rail project unspooled a direct commuter rail link between Boston and New Bedford, Mass., roughly 37 miles away, for the first time since 1958. The first train rolled out in March.
Now Mon’s main day-to-day work is on Route 146 between Providence and Worcester, Mass., where Skanska is tasked with making a 16-mile stretch that tens of thousands of automobiles traverse daily safer and less congested. As assistant project manager, Mon has a wide remit. That includes managing crews, including subcontractors, as well as the undertaking’s schedule. Plus, Mon has a say in the cost of the work — and one more thing that he says he is particularly pleased about and with which he hasn’t normally been involved.
“We’re responsible not only for building the project but also designing it,” Mon said.
The Route 146 project is scheduled for completion in summer 2026. After that, Mon said he wants to tackle similarly variegated work, including coordinating directly with project stakeholders.
