Field Engineer

Wharton-Smith•Florence, SC

4d•Onsite

About The Position

Wharton-Smith, Inc. is seeking a Field Engineer to work in Florence, South Carolina. The Field Engineer supports the Superintendent and serves as a liaison among Superintendents, Subcontractors, and Project Engineers. The role helps ensure successful project completion by assisting with work-plan development, coordinating subcontractor activities, administering contracts, and supporting field operations, project schedules, quality, and compliance. The position also supports jobsite safety and production systems. It involves coordinating safety training and inspections, maintaining safety documentation, supporting subcontractor safety, developing production plans, maintaining project schedules and PPC, leading meetings and reviews, and assisting with daily reports. The role requires work in an active construction environment and travel to assigned jobsites, with occasional overnight travel based on project requirements.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or another relevant field.
Zero to four years of construction-related experience.
Ability to communicate and coordinate effectively with Project Managers, Project Superintendents, and Foremen to receive direction and provide project support.
Training and/or certification as a Competent Person in applicable areas, including trenching, scaffolding, rigging, confined space, fall protection, OSHA 10-hour, First Aid and CPR, silica, and risk management.
Knowledge of surveying fundamentals.
Working knowledge of Microsoft Office products.
Ability and willingness to work at an active construction jobsite in varying weather conditions, including heat, cold, rain, noise, and dust.
Ability to safely navigate uneven surfaces, ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, and similar structures.
Ability to perform physical duties for extended periods, including standing, walking, bending, kneeling, crouching, climbing, crawling, reaching, grasping, pushing, pulling, lifting, and carrying.
Ability to occasionally lift and move up to 50 pounds and meet the physical requirements needed to safely perform essential job functions.
Ability to work a flexible, project-based schedule, including nights, weekends, holidays, and overtime as needed.
Ability to travel daily to assigned jobsites, with occasional overnight travel based on project requirements.

Nice To Haves

Six years of construction-related experience with a proven record of quality and profitable craftwork.
Current Competent Person certifications in trenching, scaffolding, rigging, confined space, fall protection, OSHA 10-hour, First Aid and CPR, silica, and risk management.
Knowledge of surveying fundamentals.

Responsibilities

Coordinate and assist with facility start-up activities.
Attend subcontractor, progress, and team meetings.
Maintain field, equipment, delivery, concrete-tracking, and rental-tracking logs and files.
Identify and manage field Requests for Information (RFIs).
Manage approved submittals to support quality control and compliance with onsite operations.
Maintain electronic and hard-copy as-built drawings, drawing-control systems, and field files.
Purchase, expedite, and handle materials, including field purchase orders; maintain a system tracking materials entering the site.
Monitor and report productivity; complete small pipe and PVC take-offs.
Perform layout using survey equipment, batter boards, and string lines.
Create spare-parts lists and inventories for project turnover and maintain spare-parts lists.
Schedule building-department inspections and accompany inspectors on site walks.
Understand Project Cost Accounting (PCA) budgets and subcontractor/purchase-order scopes; verify work correctness.
Assist with quality-control management, including pre-pour checklists and completion lists.
Create equipment maintenance and storage logs and manage small tools.
Support the Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP) and client and RPR relations.
Take daily progress photos and assist with daily reports.
Complete project closeout after substantial completion.
Coordinate utility locates and One Call tickets and coordinate with the Virtual Design Construction (VDC) business unit.
Schedule required safety training and new-hire safety orientations; conduct daily inspections and weekly safety meetings.
Assign and review Safety Task Analyses (STAs) conducted by foremen and conduct STA meetings on small projects.
Follow and enforce safety rules, support operations intended to maintain zero accidents, and manage jobsite incident/accident standard operating procedures.
Set up and maintain a Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) book for each project and manage subcontractor onsite safety.
Create production plans, maintain weekly PPC, and maintain the six-week schedule, sending it to subcontractors on Fridays.
Lead end-of-shift meetings and after-action review meetings and assist with production-board updates.
Attend weekly team meetings.