Field Engineer I

What We're Looking For
Our Madison, WI office seeks a Field Engineer I to join our growing Transportation Construction Engineering team.

Primary Focus will Include:
Construction engineering and inspection of large highway and bridge construction projects in the Madison area and throughout southwest Wisconsin
Collaborating with the Transportation Construction Services team and project stakeholders to perform inspection, documentation, and materials verification

Preferred Qualifications and Skills:
Experience working on WisDOT transportation projects
Engineer in Training (EIT)

At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. When you join our Wisconsin Construction Services team, you will have the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and high profile transportation infrastructure projects in Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners.

This opportunity entails construction inspection and materials testing on large highway and bridge construction projects throughout Wisconsin. The selected candidate will be responsible for providing daily inspection of multiple, complex activities within a given discipline/trade performed by the contractor in order to monitor the project compliance with plans, specifications and other contract provisions. Maintains daily logs of inspection work which is assigned and reviews discrepancies or changes with the Project Engineer. Performs non-routine and moderately complex assignments normally related to multiple and/or medium to large projects. Collaborates with the HNTB Transportation Construction Services team and project stakeholders to perform on-site inspection, documentation, and materials verification.

What You'll Do:

• Assists with construction field work tasks and activities on a project to ensure conformance to plans, specifications, and other contract documents. Coordinates and schedules quality controls inspections.
• Observes on-site material testing and coordinates testing and monitoring services. Performs mathematical calculations for material quantity payments. Performs basic shop drawing review and ensures that procedures and materials comply with plans and specifications.
• Read and interpret construction drawings and specifications and identify discrepancies or conflicts within the documents.
• Reviews contractor's daily construction reports for accuracy, thoroughness and consistency. Regularly reviews contractor's as-built mark-ups, documents project progress using video and photo and prepares reports on construction progress.
• Consults with Resident Engineer on work progress and construction problems, proactively recommends solutions, assists in the resolution of issues, and acts as a liaison with the engineer of record.
• Remains current and knowledgeable of industry technology and tools used to perform inspection work through industry resources, training, and research. Gains exposure to new technology and utilizes it (GPS/Rovers) to increase efficiency and accuracy of inspection tasks.
• Performs office engineer work when needed including but not limited to; prepares meeting agendas and meeting minutes, assists in processing and maintains tracking logs for RFIs, submittals, pay estimates and other deliverables.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

What You'll Need:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering.

What You'll Bring:

• Identifies some discrepancies or conflicts within documents and gains familiarity with the quality of work performed using inspection checklists.
• Writes daily inspection report, tracks work performed, and computes pay item quantities at a basic level with direction from more experienced staff.
• Understands the shop drawing review and gains the ability to read and interpret the contractor's CPM schedule at a basic level.

What We Prefer:

• Engineer in Training (EIT)
• Trained in digital construction management software such as Constructware, Asite or similar preferred.

Additional Information

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Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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Locations:
Madison, WI

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