Field Engineer Jobs

About The Position

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 active construction jobsites and 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 the need for 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, handle, and track materials entering the site, including field purchase orders.
• Monitor and report productivity; perform small pipe and PVC take-offs.
• Perform layout using surveying equipment, batter boards, and string lines.
• Create spare-parts lists and inventories for project turnover and maintain equipment maintenance and storage logs.
• Schedule building department inspections and walk with inspectors.
• Understand Project Cost Accounting budgets and verify the correctness of work.
• Assist with quality-control management, including pre-pour checklists and completion lists.
• Manage small tools and understand subcontractor and purchase-order scopes.
• Support the Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP) and maintain client and RPR relations.
• Take daily progress photographs and assist with daily reports.
• Complete project closeout after substantial completion.
• Coordinate utility locates and One Call tickets.
• Coordinate with the Virtual Design Construction (VDC) business unit.
• Schedule required safety training and conduct daily inspections and new-hire safety orientations.
• Assign and review Safety Task Analyses (STAs) conducted by Foremen, and conduct STA meetings on small projects.
• Set an example by following and enforcing safety rules; conduct weekly safety meetings.
• Set up and maintain a Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) book for each project.
• Help ensure operations maintain zero accidents and manage jobsite incident and accident Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• 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, assist with production-board updates, attend weekly team meetings, and lead after-action review meetings on activities.