AECOM is actively seeking a highly talented Resident Engineer for construction inspection services to oversee construction in Austin, Texas. The Resident Engineer is a full-time on-site role. In this role, you will be responsible for conducting routine inspections of civil infrastructure, identifying defects and potential hazards, and documenting contract compliance. You will also be responsible for producing detailed reports and communicating findings to management and have the primary responsibility for assuring quality of the construction.
Additional responsibilities include:
- Observes Contractor’s construction activities.
- Accepts work completed in compliance with contract documents, rejects defective work, maintains log of rejected work, assists with resolution of construction issues.
- Coordinates with Contractor to identify upcoming work; verifies upcoming work against issued look ahead schedules.
- Supervises project engineers for near surface and tunnelling work.
- Reviews contract requirements, submittals, shop drawings, and other associated documentation.
- Communicates daily with AECOM’s Project Manager and Contractor's field team in execution of their duties.
- Tracks progress of work in field. Monitors Contractor’s adherence to schedule and provides input on Contractor’s payment requests.
- Inspects work for conformance with contract documents, approved change orders, clarifications, etc.; identifies and reports all nonconforming work; documents all work with daily reports, photos and videos.
- Tracks and verifies Contractor time and material or force account work.
- Conducts inspections to ensure that the work is performed in compliance with the contract documents.
- Ensures delivered materials comply with approved submittals, TxDOT standards and is the correct product from approved vendors.
- Observes and approves Contractor’s testing and QA/QC activities.
- Schedules and monitors AECOM quality assurance testing of materials.
- Maintains necessary project documentation, including daily, weekly, and monthly reports and logs.
- Prepares other required field documentation as necessary.
- Provides input for construction changes. Assist with preparation and negotiation of field orders and change orders.
- Tracking quantities installed on daily basis and prepare T&M reports as appropriate.
- Observes implementation of health and safety procedures and practices.
- Verifies Contractor maintenance of As-Built drawings; confirm with Contractor that this is being carried out; review look-ahead schedules. Verification that work is in accordance with the approved shop drawing and sample Submittals.