Field Engineer - Concrete Group

Sundt Construction•Maxwell, TX

1d•Onsite

About The Position

As a 100% employee-owned contractor, Sundt offers a culture where everyone is an owner, deeply invested in their work. The company focuses on building long-term prosperity for clients, communities, and employee-owners, providing competitive pay, industry-leading benefits including a 401k and employee stock ownership plan, incentive programs, and training for personal and professional growth. This role is driven by skill, grit, and purpose, aiming to be the most skilled builder in America. The Field Engineer assists the Project Engineer as the technical source of information for the project, responding to questions about drawings, specifications, shop drawings, and change orders. They are responsible for assisting in writing change orders, RFIs, meeting minutes, and reviewing submittals. Maintaining effective professional relationships with owners, architects, engineers, subcontractors, and suppliers is key. This position includes three steps (I, II, and Senior) for progression of skill and experience, with Step II for employees with 2 years of experience or experience on larger/more complex projects.

Requirements

Ability to assume responsibility, interface and communicate with others is essential.
Entry-level position that normally requires a four-year construction-related degree or equivalent technical/field experience.
Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) proficiency.

Nice To Haves

Step II is used for employees with 2 years of experience in this position, or with experience on larger and more complex projects.

Responsibilities

Assists Project Engineer in developing and maintaining as-built drawings and other work tasks.
Assists with or reviews and processes submittals, change orders, RFIs, and budget forecasting.
Ensures the timely and appropriate generation, collection, distribution, storage, retrieval and ultimate disposition of meeting agendas, RFIs and daily reports.
Ensures the administration of the project quality management plan and demonstrates and reinforces a culture of safety throughout the project.
May assist in the calculation of daily production rates and unit costs for self-performed work.
Participates in risk management including identification, analysis, response planning and monitoring and control on a project.
Demonstrates competency in understanding the environmental control processes for the project and takes corrective actions when necessary.
May be responsible for overseeing/managing the BIM (Building Information Modeling) Coordination between Subcontractors and Designers.
May be responsible for the documentation and submittal for the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Certification of a building and for creating and updating Digital Record Drawings (ORD).
May provide lines, grades and layout as required for the project while maintaining an organized logbook.
May provide weekly quantities, maintains accurate quantity logs and reports quantities in compliance with the cost control manual. Completed logs are to be filed with the project files.
Perform elements of the processes involved in budgeting and controlling costs so that the project can be completed within the approved budget.
Demonstrates business acumen within area of responsibility.
Provides support to superintendents required for the execution of the work and assists in the resolution of field problems as necessary.