Field Engineer III

What We're Looking For

Come join our growing Construction Services Group here in Milwaukee! 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. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners.

This opportunity entails being responsible for providing project leadership for engineering inspection and documentation of construction work performed by contractor, in order to monitor the project construction compliance with plans, specifications, and contract provisions, as well as state and local regulations in order to protect the client's interests. Responsible for assisting in the compliance and modification of design calculations, technical reports, engineering plans, specifications, and other contract documents for assigned projects.

Our Milwaukee, WI office seeks a Field Engineer III for Late 2025.

What You'll Do:

• Inspects, monitors, and oversees construction field work tasks and activities on a project to ensure conformance to plans and specifications. Reads, interprets, and confirms compliance with applicable contract documents.
• Performs or oversees on-site material testing. Reviews plans and specifications to determine material requirements (quantities and qualities). Responsible for tracking of item quantities and preparing pay estimates, and ensures that procedures and materials comply with plans and specifications.
• Initiates field changes to drawings and specifications, identifies discrepancies or conflicts within the documents. Reviews contractors daily construction reports for accuracy, thoroughness, and consistency. Responsible for maintaining as-constructed drawings and monitors contractors progress to analyze against progress schedule.
• 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 documentation for change orders, reviews change order scope of work, schedule and cost, processes and maintains tracking logs for RFIs, submittals, pay estimates and other deliverables. Assists in constructability reviews.
• Mentors and trains staff.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

What You'll Need:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering and 4 years relevant experience, or
• Master's degree in Engineering and 3 years relevant experience, or
• Doctorate degree in Engineering and 2 years relevant experience.

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, knowledgeable with issue management processes, draft/execute change order, drafts engineer cost estimates, and computes pay item quantities at an experienced level with direction from more experienced staff.
• Understands the shop drawing review and gains the ability to read and interpret the contractor's change documentation, and CPM schedule at an experienced level.

What We Prefer:

• Professional Engineer (PE)
• Knowledge of AASHTOware Project software.
• Knowledge of WisDOT Construction Administration Processes

Additional Information

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Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.#AK

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Locations:

Milwaukee, WI (East Wisconsin Avenue)

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