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23 Apr 2025

Full-Time Engineering Technician II – Project Inspector

NC Department of Transportation – Posted by Dan –  Boone, North Carolina, United States

Job Description

How to Apply
You MUST apply at https://tinyurl.com/5n88td9t by May 5.
 
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The Challenge
We are hiring an experienced Engineering Technician to join our Division 11 team as a project roadway/structure inspector.
 
In this role, you will
    • Support senior engineers administrating highway construction contracts.
    • Monitor contractor’s daily operations.
    • Perform/review test reports to ensure all work and materials conform to specifications, plans, and contract documents.
    • Perform contract administration duties, such as pay record entry/review, materials received reports, certified payroll review, daily diary review, as-constructed plans preparation, and monthly quantity verification prior to estimate payment.
    • Resolve daily constructability issues and troubleshoot problems to mitigate delays to project delivery.
    • Assist other NCDOT staff and contractors in utility relocation efforts by inspecting and tracking relocation work.
    • Anticipate contract problems and advise engineering staff of the need for plan revisions, supplemental agreements, or other contract adjustments to improve safety, timely delivery, and quality of delivered project
    • Monitor contractors’ operations to ensure compliance with subcontract agreements and with the contract Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) requirements.
    • Ensure compliance with NC Sedimentation and Pollution Control Act and that all work performed in permitted areas is done in accordance with permits.
    • Direct and schedule work of junior technicians in staking out and inspecting every phase of construction projects to ensure they are built according to contract documents in a timely and cost-effective manner.
    • Manage all aspects of assigned construction projects with limited supervision from senior engineers.
    • Actively engage with leadership, management, counseling, and training NCDOT and contractors’ technicians.
    • Communicate and coordinate work with contractors, subcontractors, utility owners, and property owners to minimize delays and disturbances while maximizing projects’ progress.
What You Bring
    • Knowledge and understanding of NCDOT highway and bridge construction, contracts, plans, standards and specifications.
    • Experience performing inspections, materials sampling and testing (concrete, asphalt density) to ensure compliance with NCDOT specifications.
    • Experience with contract administration, and maintaining neat, legible, and accurate records and reports, including computer/iPad data entry.
    • Ability to read and interpret construction plans.
    • Communications skills to effectively communicate with engineers, developers, the public, public officials, and NCDOT staff, and to communicate in a clear, concise, organized, and persuasive manner, both verbally and in writing.
    • Good engineering judgement to make independent decisions
    • Ability to work safely in an outside environment with exposure to hazards on construction sites, including heights, highway traffic, weather extremes, and climbing rough terrain in evaluating highway construction.
    • Fitness to perform moderate physical activity, including walking, climbing, balancing, kneeling, and standing.
    • Computer knowledge and skills using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and Outlook). Experience with iPads/tablets, HiCAMS, and SharePlus/SharePoint is highly preferred.
    • Advanced working knowledge of math functions.
    • Ability to work nights/weekends as required by project workload/staffing with fluctuating hours, if needed, on any assigned project in Division 11.
    • You apply a safety philosophy and program to all operations.
    • Safety toe shoes.
Education & Experience
    • Associates Degree in Civil Engineering, Survey Technology, or a related discipline, and
    • 2+ years of engineering technician experience, or
    • An equivalent combination of education and experience.
 
Questions?
Call me:  Sadie Schneider at (336)903-9119.
 
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How to Apply

You MUST apply at  https://tinyurl.com/5n88td9t

Job Categories: Equal Opportunities. Job Types: Full-Time. Job Tags: Award Winning, engineering, Government, great place to work, Living Wage Employer, ncdot, Public Sector, technician, and Veteran Friendly. Salaries: 60,000 - 80,000.

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