Job ID: 2024-4370 Type: Regular Full-Time # of Openings: 1 Category: Construction Services Charleston
Overview
As a construction inspector, you’ll monitor the contractor’s on-site construction activities and inspect materials to ensure compliance with plans, specifications, and other contract documents related to excavations, drainage facilities, road surfaces, and structures. You’ll take field measurements of pay items, report the contractor’s daily production rates, and schedule work and inspection phases with the contractor’s superintendent and agency personnel. Provide support to various project procedures, particularly in documentation development for the final estimate package. The construction inspector reports to the project administrator.
Responsibilities
• Inspect, observe, document, and verify work in progress by the construction contractor to ensure compliance with project schedule, contract documents, and plans.• Utilize engineering inspection practices to perform complex mathematical calculations and measurements of completed work to date.• Maintain inspector's daily report of assigned work activities, contractor labor and equipment, quantity of material received and verified.• Perform on-site material testing and produce as-constructed sketches as required.
Qualifications
• HS Diploma or equivalent.• Minimum four years of construction inspection experience.• Ability to read and interpret construction plans and specifications.• Obtain any required certifications and pass appropriate qualifications tests for the position in specified time frames.• Must have a valid driver's license with a good driving record.• This field job primarily operates in outdoor work environments that may include exposure to inclement weather, heat, humidity, noise, hazard, atmospheric conditions, and bodies of water, depending on project requirements.• While performing the duties of this job, physical demands of the employee may include frequent talking, hearing, standing, moving, walking, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, reaching, handling, grasping, feeling, balancing, coordination, and occasional sitting or operating a company vehicle. This job may require lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling up to 35 lbs.
