Construction Inspector

What Your Day Will Look Like:

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.

• 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.

• HS Diploma or equivalent.
• 3+ years of construction inspection experience.
• Ability to read and interpret construction plans and specifications.
• Obtain any required certifications and pass appropriate qualification 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.
• Physical demands include frequent talking, hearing, standing, moving, walking, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, reaching, handling, grasping, feeling, balancing, coordination, occasional sitting, operating a company vehicle. Lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling up to 35 lbs may be required.

• Career Growth & Development – Tuition reimbursement, paid professional training, major license achievement bonus, extensive on‑demand learning center, and paid professional memberships.
• Work-Life Alignment – Industry‑competitive PTO, seven paid holidays and two floating holidays, flexible work schedules, paid parental leave, eligibility for hybrid and remote work options for some employees based on role responsibilities.
• Wellness – Medical, dental, vision insurance, employee assistance program, fitness and wellness reimbursement, and HSA and FSA options.
• Life – Employer‑paid STD and LTD, employer‑paid term life insurance, and retirement 401(k) with company match.
• Community – Quarterly social events, paid group volunteering events, and employee networks and groups.

If you need more information or special assistance for persons with disabilities or limited English proficiency, contact Human Resources 14. Persons with hearing and speech impairments can contact Consor by using the Virginia Relay Service, a toll‑free telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD). Call 711 for TTY/TDD.

If any applicant believes they have been discriminated against or desires further information or assistance, contact us 14.

Notice:
The above job description is intended to relay a general sense of the position's responsibilities and expectations. It does not describe all tasks that may be assigned. As business demands change, the essential functions of this position may also change. The position requires the successful completion of applicable pre‑employment substance screening and background checks.