Junior Construction Inspector - Highways & Bridges

Job Description

Got a good eye for detail? Ready to put your emerging inspection skills to work on urban construction projects? Parsons is now hiring Construction Inspectors with a great attention to detail to join a rapidly growing team, which will enhance the fabric of our community. This job will be well suited to a recent graduate from a Civil Engineering program!

Parsons extensive experience in this field, combined with your experience will propel your career and opportunities forward. We need our Inspectors to be versatile, enthusiastic to work in highly flexible, team oriented environments that have exceptional communication, analytical and organizational skills. In this role you will: perform well defined and sometimes difficult inspection tasks, including monitoring quality control procedures. You will inspect various facets of work on the construction site and perform continuous surveillance of assigned construction activities to ensure compliance with all applicable codes, standards, and specifications.

Our inspectors document nonconformance and may participate in discussions to determine appropriate resolution. Inspection activities are usually concentrated in one of the following areas: soils, concrete, mechanical, or electrical. Willingness to travel and/or to relocate to field sites as well as nightwork is expected.

• Performs civil and structural inspections on various municipal and provincial construction projects.
• Performs surveillance of underground piping to ensure tightness, bedding, and grade. Inspects and monitors piling installation to ensure location and bearing. Validates piping systems, including P&s and hydraulic or other pressure tests.
• Provides general inspection on all construction labor and subcontracted tasks to ensure professional workmanship.
• Verifies equipment alignment and balancing operations. May participate in the development of job safety practices and in the preparation of safety reports.
• May participate in the development of quality control reports and procedures. Performs other responsibilities associated with this position as may be appropriate.
• Completes daily diaries and documentation of construction activities, testing, non-conformances, photographs, etc.
• Ability to lift 50 lbs.

• Associate’s degree in a technical discipline to be certified or eligible for certification by OACETT for the RCJI designation or;
• Engineers-in-Training, registered with the PEO, with the appropriate related work experience; or
• Engineering Student who will be completing their final year as an undergraduate engineering student and/or a college civil engineering technician or technology student.
• Valid driver’s license

Salary Range: $26.44 - $50.48

Parsons is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the workplace. Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels for indigenous peoples, women, individuals with disabilities, and visible minorities.

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