Field Engineer

RK Industries • Santa Teresa, NM

10d • Onsite

About The Position

The Field Engineer provides maintenance and administration support to field managers in executing, tracking, and managing labor resources, quality control and assurance, safety administration, start-up and commissioning, and project tools. The role works with field leadership, project engineers, and project managers on internal coordination needed to complete projects successfully. The position is based in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, and pays $80,000 to $100,000 per year, with eligibility for an annual incentive bonus.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Three to five years of construction-field experience, including hands-on experience with steel and piping materials.
• Ability to make independent decisions using sound judgment.
• Ability to manage a department or functional area as a leader or subject-matter expert.
• Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with key staff and cross-functional teams.
• Ability to make authoritative decisions and recommendations that significantly influence company operations.
• Creativity, foresight, and mature judgment in addressing and resolving complex, unprecedented challenges.
• Working knowledge of trade materials and tools.
• Ability to lift, move, and/or carry 50 pounds.
• Ability to work outside and inside, including dusty, noisy, hazardous, high, tight, confined, and other adverse locations, and in all types of weather; ability to climb, balance, squat, kneel, and crouch.

Nice To Haves

• A college or university degree, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience, is preferred, especially for technical roles.

Responsibilities

• Ensure corporate documentation is complete and current, including time cards, daily reports, additional work authorizations, receiving documents, and as-built drawings.
• Coordinate and attend in-house pre-construction meetings.
• Ensure project permits and licenses are obtained and current.
• Coordinate timely completion of material and equipment buy-out procedures with the Field Manager and purchasing department.
• Collaborate with the Field Manager to ensure Triangulation take-offs are complete, accurate, and timely.
• Maintain project as-built drawings.
• Administer signed subcontract requirements to ensure conformance with agreements, contract documents, and change orders.
• Collaborate with the Project Manager and logistics department to develop and finalize RK’s mechanical construction CPM schedule, incorporating Field Manager input.
• Coordinate ordering, processing, and delivery of materials and equipment with vendors and the purchasing department.
• Ensure project quality control procedures are properly executed during construction in accordance with contract documents and company policies and procedures.
• Manage requisitions, returns, and transfers of project tools.
• Ensure change order requests are processed according to proper procedures and provide the Field Manager with information needed for implementation.
• Collaborate with Field Managers to prepare take-offs for changed conditions.
• Coordinate and track take-off orders, procurement, and release of change order items with purchasing and Field Managers.
• Manage labor resource planning, including labor resource charts, labor productivity report tracking and review, and short interval plans in conjunction with the LRC and LPR.
• Manage and coordinate the start-up and commissioning process.
• Manage efficient job closeout and keep the Project Manager informed of status, including documentation, customer punch-lists, Engineer of Record observations, start-up and commissioning, tools, and demobilization.
• Collaborate with Field Managers to schedule daily and weekly scopes of work.
• Monitor craft employees’ compliance with company and project safety program requirements.
• Assist the safety manager with preparation, documentation, and distribution of accident reports.
• Maintain the proper journeyman-to-apprentice ratio.
• Execute, supervise, and maintain CPMIS.
• Support company profitability through decision-making based on reliable and mature judgment.

Benefits

• Competitive benefits to support employee growth and well-being.
• Hands-on training and development opportunities through RK University, including leadership and technical learning.
• Accredited apprenticeship program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED