Full-Time Engineering Technician III – Lead Project Inspector
Job Description
- Support senior engineers in the administration of highway construction in the Weaverville Resident Engineer’s Office.
- Monitor contractor daily operations and perform/ review test reports to ensure all work and materials conform to specifications, plans, and contract provisions.
- Perform contract administration duties, such as pay record entry/review, material received reports, certified payroll, haul tickets, as-constructed plans, and monthly estimates.
- Manage and train junior technicians, including NCDOT employees and contract construction inspectors.
- Resolve daily constructability issues and troubleshoot problems to mitigate delays to contractor progress.
- Monitor utility relocation efforts by inspecting and tracking relocation work.
- Anticipate contract problems and advise supervisor of needs for plan revisions, supplemental agreements, or other contract adjustments to improve safety, timely delivery, and quality of delivered products.
- Monitor contractor 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 the permits.
- Effectively communicate and coordinate work with contractors, subcontractors, utility owners, and property owners to minimize delays and disturbances while maximizing project progress.
- Ability to understand, interpret, and analyze contracts, plans, standards, and specifications associated with highway construction projects, including roadways and structures.
- Experience performing inspections, sampling, and materials testing (concrete, asphalt density) to ensure compliance with NCDOT specifications.
- Experience planning, developing, scheduling, tracking, and completing projects independently or with limited supervision.
- General surveying knowledge.
- Computer skills with I-pads, laptops, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook), SharePlus, HiCams, SharePoint and math functions.
- Ability to establish and maintain positive communications between technicians, engineers, contractors, and the public.
- Good verbal and written communications skills to effectively communicate in a clear, concise, organized, and persuasive manner.
- Ability to make independent decisions using sound engineering judgement.
- Ability to work safely in an outside environment with exposure to hazards on construction sites including heights, highway traffic, weather extremes, and traversing rough terrain in evaluating highway construction.
- Strength and agility to perform job duties involving walking, climbing, balancing, kneeling, standing, and lifting up to 50 pounds.
- Ability to work nights/weekends as required with fluctuating hours greater than 50 hours a week to any assigned project within the Division.
- You apply a safety philosophy and program to all operations.
- Safety toe shoes.
- Associate’s degree in Engineering Technology, Survey Technology or a related field, and
- 3+ years of relevant technician experience; or
- An equivalent combination of education and experience.
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