Senior Field Engineer

Clark Foundations•Baltimore, MD

About The Position

As a Senior Field Engineer on the Clark Civil Team, you will lead and oversee complex field engineering operations, ensuring accuracy, quality, and efficiency throughout all project phases. You will manage technical functions, coordinate testing and equipment operations, support project execution, and provide guidance and mentorship to junior staff. The role includes project control, construction layout, concrete quantity tracking, and operation and care of survey instruments and leveling equipment. This is a physically demanding position on an active construction site. Work regularly takes place outdoors, with exposure to changing weather, moving equipment, noise, dust, fumes, airborne particles, vibrations, and potential electrical hazards. Employees must use required personal protective equipment and follow safety policies and applicable laws. The role calls for flexibility to work extended hours during critical project phases or to meet client deadlines. A pre-employment drug fitness-for-duty screening and random quarterly screenings are required.

Requirements

Ability to make temperature corrections when chaining.
Basic ability to read and understand structural, architectural, and shop drawings.
Ability to provide layout from drawings without assistance and coordinate drawings to identify potential conflicts.
Proficiency in using scales.
Ability to lay out footings, columns, and building lines without assistance.
Ability to establish vertical dimensions from given finish floor elevations.
Ability to compute concrete quantities for daily pours, slabs, and columns.
Ability to conduct fine grading, level decks, and grade columns without assistance.
Ability to establish secondary benchmarks and secondary horizontal and vertical control, including column lines and offsets.
Ability to compute and track concrete during a pour.
Advanced proficiency in geometry, trigonometry, and construction-related calculations.
Ability to independently solve complex alignment problems, including deflection angles, vertical curves, and horizontal curves.
Expert-level understanding of rectangular and polar coordinate systems and their field applications.
Advanced proficiency with data collection and field layout software.
Working knowledge of AutoCAD or similar platforms, including the ability to review, interpret, and modify drawings as needed.
Strong understanding of survey equipment, calibration, and error analysis.
Full mastery of Field Engineer and Apprentice-level responsibilities.
Ability to work safely at heights and in tight spaces and to frequently lift, carry, and move materials weighing up to 50 pounds alone; use team-lifting techniques for heavier materials.
Ability to stand or walk for extended periods and to bend, climb, kneel, and reach; good balance and dexterity.
Visual acuity sufficient to operate equipment and spot hazards, and ability to hear instructions in noisy environments, with or without assistance.
Flexibility to work extended hours, especially during critical project phases or client deadlines.
Successful completion of a pre-employment drug fitness-for-duty screening; employees are also subject to random quarterly screenings.
Alignment with Clark Standards of Excellence: self-motivated, results-oriented, adaptable, a team player, accountable, ethical, innovative, resilient, and able to build relationships.

Responsibilities

Establish and verify primary and secondary horizontal and vertical control, including column lines, benchmarks, and offsets, throughout construction.
Oversee and validate concrete quantity tracking, placement coordination, and pour performance, including forecasting and variance analysis.
Provide technical guidance and mentorship to Field Engineers and Apprentices and support their development.
Identify and resolve field engineering challenges in coordination with project management, subcontractors, and survey teams.
Support project planning through advanced layout strategies, constructability reviews, and risk mitigation.
Check, maintain, and use survey instruments, including checking optical plummets, inspecting instruments for damage or mis-adjustment, setting temperature and pressure corrections in a Total Station, and checking and calibrating collimation.
Use and maintain auto levels, including running and adjusting three-wire level loops, computing tangent grades, plotting cross-sections, and determining earthwork.
Perform construction layout and field calculations, including layout of footings, columns, building lines, and secondary benchmarks and control.
Compute and track concrete quantities for daily pours, slabs, columns, and other work.
Conduct fine grading operations, level decks, and grade columns.
Use data collection and field layout software and troubleshoot or optimize workflows.
Review, interpret, and modify drawings as needed using AutoCAD or similar platforms.
Train and develop others while performing all Field Engineer- and Apprentice-level responsibilities.
Work safely around construction traffic and heavy equipment, wear required PPE, and follow Clark Construction safety procedures.