Construction Inspection Cei - Vertical Buildings jobs at Jacobs in United States, Virginia Beach

As our Construction Inspector you will be asked to monitor and inspect contractual field work which includes building structures, architectural finishes, and some MEPF installations. You will take field measurements of pay items, report contractor’s daily production rates as well as schedule work and inspection phases with contractor’s superintendent and agency personnel.

We will look to your expertise in advising contractors of violations and make recommendations for adjustments to operations. You will review placement of and perform tests on construction materials (as needed), review lines, grades, dimensions, and elevations using standard survey and field engineering equipment.

When you join Jacobs, you will have the opportunity to recommend changes to construction plans to meet field conditions or provide project cost savings, maintain project records; including daily diaries, materials notebooks, as-built plans, pay quantity records, and monthly estimates.

You’ll be asked to review and monitor Equal Employment Opportunity/Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) documentation and compliance with Federal labor requirements/regulations for Federal-aid construction projects, ensuring contractor compliance with program requirements.

As a Construction Inspector serving in our Water business line, you’ll have the chance to work on exciting small, mid, and large-scale civil infrastructure & utility projects. Working with other members of the team, you’ll provide construction inspection in an Owner's Agent or 3rd Party construction inspection role. In this role, you will observe, inspect, and document various construction projects as an Owner's Representative to assist enforcing compliance with design plans, contract specifications, and permit requirements, to document construction progress, and to help proactively resolve issues that arise in the field during construction.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

- Review approved shop drawings, construction plans, and specifications and inspect active work against the approved contract documents to verify compliance, or identify any deviation from approved plans, then elevate to the Project Manager and/or Owner.

- Prepare a daily field report documenting the status of the work, daily activities (including start and finish dates for CPM activities), manpower, equipment, and other observations.

- Maintain a continuous redline set of plans and specifications reflecting all changes made during construction.

- Identify non-compliant/deficient work, elevate to the Project Manager and/or Owner, and coordinate with the contractor through resolution.

- Take photographs and videos of pre-construction conditions and major construction activities. Prepare a database of the photographs with the date, subject matter, and photo number/file name.

- Verify quantities of work performed, materials used, and adequacy of the contractor’s resources.

- Verify time and materials expense reports from the construction contractor.

- Proactively notify the Project Manager of potential construction problems.

- Attend construction progress and coordination meetings.

- Verify that the contractor’s record drawings are current.

- Review monthly contractor’s progress payment requests.

- Facilitate, attend, and observe 3^rdparty material testing as required.

- Monitor the status of erosion control devices on a weekly basis, and after every major rainfall event.

- Prepare a pre-construction and post-construction video of the project site