Samantha Trumbetti, 32

When Samantha Trumbetti was a 20-something living in Manhattan, friends would call asking to hang out on weekends — and she had to respectfully decline.

“They’d say, ‘What do you mean you’re at work on a Saturday afternoon?’ ”

Stranger still, these calls would take place during the height of COVID when nobody was going to work — Saturday, Sunday or Monday, for that matter.

But Trumbetti at the time was a field manager on the redevelopment of LaGuardia Airport’s Central Terminal B, a multibillion-dollar reimagining of the hub.

“For a lot of people, their job stalled,” Trumbetti said of COVID. “For us, it sped up. People weren’t going anywhere — you couldn’t even travel — so, for us, we said, ‘This is great. Less moving passengers we have to worry about. How can we capitalize on this?’ ”

Perhaps this commitment and work ethic might explain why Trumbetti is already a project manager currently overseeing a team of union craft workers on the Hunts Point Digesters project, a $310 million wastewater resource recovery site in the Bronx for the New York City Department of Environmental Protection. The job involves integrating the old and still operative systems with new ones, but she’s also had to manage contractors and engineers, keep the project on schedule, stick to a budget, and keep an eye on safety.

“It took a little while to get used to, but having the support of the executives in the company — knowing they’re not going to turn around and say, ‘What were you thinking?’ — was critical,” Trumbetti said.

Trumbetti was always attracted to the sciences. “I knew from high school I wanted to be in STEM,” she said. While still a 19-year-old college sophomore at Johns Hopkins, she began working with Skanska on the World Trade Center site.

“This was when the Freedom Tower was still under construction,” Trumbetti said. “I actually got to walk up the Freedom Tower before the public.”

While Trumbetti’s CV might scream workaholic, there is a life outside her profession. She cooks Italian classics for her extended family and has a 2½-year-old son. But personal life is not completely separated from professional: Her husband, Joe Trumbetti, also an engineer at RXR, was on Commercial Observer’s Young Professionals list last year.