Field Engineer
Listed on 2026-09-25
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Construction
Civil Engineering
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POSITION SUMMARYThe Field Engineer serves as the designated Site Engineer and provides onsite technical, administrative, and project-controls support for assigned construction projects. This position assists the Project Manager and Site Superintendent with planning, coordination, execution, and monitoring to support completion in accordance with contract requirements, schedules, budgets, quality standards, safety requirements, issued-for-construction drawings, specifications, and approved work packages.
The Field Engineer supports cost management and analysis, scheduling, procurement, subcontractor coordination, project documentation, billing, and other day-to-day project operations. Work may include heavy civil, site-development, utility-infrastructure, commercial, and light-industrial construction. The position works closely with project management, field supervision, subcontractors, vendors, clients, quality control, ES&H personnel, and other stakeholders to facilitate communication, resolve project issues, and maintain accurate and timely project information.
ESSENTIALJOB FUNCTIONS Project Operations & Coordination
- Supports the Project Manager and Site Superintendent with day-to-day construction operations, project coordination, and execution.
- Maintains regular communication with project leadership regarding field conditions, schedule progress, procurement needs, risks, technical issues, and decisions requiring attention.
- Reviews issued-for-construction drawings, specifications, approved submittals, work packages, contract requirements, and applicable codes to support field execution and identify conflicts or discrepancies.
- Assists with field layout, dimensions, elevations, grades, quantities, and constructability reviews for earthwork, roads, utilities, concrete, buildings, and related systems.
- Coordinates technical questions, Requests for Information (RFIs), design clarifications, sketches, and field changes with the project team and documents direction and resolution.
- Coordinates with subcontractors and vendors regarding scopes of work, schedules, deliverables, materials, and project requirements.
- Participates in preconstruction, pre-job, progress, coordination, and weekly project meetings, as well as jobsite walkdowns, pre-evolution briefings, daily planning reviews, and post-job reviews when required.
- Assists with development, maintenance, and monitoring of short-term and long-term schedules, including progress, milestones, procurement activities, and potential schedule impacts.
- Monitors project costs, quantities, commitments, production information, and installed work; assists with cost reports and forecasts.
- Establishes and maintains accurate billing quantities and supports project billings, payment documentation, and other required cost information.
- Prepares and maintains daily job-cost reporting and other project reports as required.
- Identifies project risks, conflicts, differing conditions, and potential cost or schedule impacts; communicates them promptly and supports development of practical corrective actions.
- Promotes and maintains a safe project site in accordance with Aleut policies, client requirements, OSHA requirements, DOE-site requirements, and established safety programs.
- Participates in safety meetings, inspections, briefings, work-package reviews, and other safety activities as required.
- Verifies that current approved work documents are available to personnel performing the work and that activities remain within the defined scope and sequence.
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