County of Denver - Construction Project Inspector – Transportation Project Management

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Construction Project Inspector – Transportation Project Management – Department of Transportation & Infrastructure

Job Description / Primary Objective
About Our Job
This is a limited position with an expected end date of December 1, 2022.

Denver's Department of Transportation and Infrastructure (DOTI), through its employees, enhances the quality of life in Denver by efficiently delivering effective, high quality, safe and equitable public infrastructure and services, including transportation planning, design and construction; major projects, maintenance of streets, bridges and storm and sanitary sewers; residential trash, recycling and compost collection; and oversight and regulation of use of the public right-of-way including on-street parking.

We employ a culture of safety throughout the department to strengthen workplace health and organizational performance.

For more information, please visit the DOTI website.

DOTI’s Commitment to Equity:

DOTI is committed to providing attention and resources to the areas, assets and people of the city with the greatest need. Through equitable contracting, equitable investments, and equitable workforce development.
DOTI’s culture revolves around four key principles: (1) Invest in Our People, (2) Operate with Discipline, (3) Use Data to Drive Decisions, and (4) Deliver Results

The Transportation Project Management team has an opening for a Project Inspector. This position would be part of a team of 38 working with engineers, project managers, inspectors and upper management. As a Project Inspector, you’ll have an opportunity to work on multimodal projects (sidewalks, transit, and bike lanes), roadways, intersections (signals), bridges, and underpasses.

The Project Inspector will help the team work on major projects that are currently being identified in DOTI’s three-year plan. In addition, this is an excellent opportunity to be mentored by our team as you grow in your career with DOTI.

An important role you’ll have as a Project Inspector is to review, document, and inspect construction projects for the Transportation team. Job duties and responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Perform all aspects of inspection work overseeing a variety of construction activities on Capital Improvement projects from inception to completion, which includes constructability reviews, construction oversight, and ensures compliance with approved plans, specifications, contract documents, and established standards and codes
• Serves as the main point of contact for each project will coordinate stakeholder interactions/notifications, and act as a Subject Matter Expert for the City on project jobsites and in specialized areas of construction (signals, bridges, Local Agency), applying engineering quality control standards in working with the contractor, utility companies, other City departments, and sub-contractors throughout the duration of the project
• Reviews, measures, and processes contractor payment applications and invoices to ensure contract specifications and requirements have been met, verifies the quantities and costs of materials used, and recommends modifications when necessary to the City PM. Upon project completion reviews as-built drawing to ensure accuracy of the overall project, schedules a final walkthrough of the project, creates punch list, and ensures that all work is acceptable and in compliance as part of a quality assurance and warranty review
• Act as a member of the design review team to perform constructability reviews of plans and specifications
• Identifies inconsistencies, defects, potential pitfalls, and substandard work during construction, reviews proposed methods to correct construction issues. Works with the Project Manager to oversee the repair or replacement of non-conforming work
• Applies applicable codes including CCD, CDOT, and RTD standards, and regulations pertaining to compliance work and performs inspections of civil and structural…