Field Engineer

FIELD ENGINEER, Full Time, Kittery, Maine

Job Responsibilities

• Assist in proper project planning, value-added engineering means and methods, developing work packages, and preparing production indicators/benchmarks, and developing the master schedule
• Ensure proper environmental permits are in place (identify any state or local laws relating to environmental compliance); Educate our team to ensure understanding and compliance with permit requirements
• Interpret design/drawings for crafts installing material. Research and resolve drawing interpretation problems, conflicts, interferences, and errors. Verify that all completed work complies with applicable codes, drawings, and specifications
• Provide engineering input to the daily job log
• Interpret production goals from work packages for craft supervisors, ensuring full understanding to enable daily communication of productivity goals to crews executing the work
• Verify quantity tracking data and measure productivity
• Track progress of the major Vendors and Subcontractors to ensure that materials are manufactured and delivered in a timely fashion as not to impact the project schedule
• Maintain the project schedule to aid project leadership in knowing where they are and making decisions for how to achieve project goals, with input from others
• Generate and maintain the project submittal log, Requests For Information log, and correspondence with client/owner
• Generate and maintain contract compliance listings, buyout logs, and procurement reports
• Identify, document, and estimate costs of extra work activities, which were not anticipated in the original scope, and provide proper notification and financial reporting of change orders. Establish and maintain a project change order log that ties to the UAR
• Coordinate the transmittal and subsequent approval of all submittals to the Owner/Engineer

Qualifications/ Requirements

• Requires a 4-year degree in engineering or construction management
• Knowledge of all aspects of construction (technology, equipment, methods): craft agreements, jurisdiction, negotiations, engineering, estimating, schedules, and safety preferred
• Excellent communication, organizational and supervisory skills essential
• Demonstrated ability to identify and implement detailed solutions to complex technical problems
• Compute