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As an industry leader Balfour Beatty offers employees a comprehensive benefits package with competitive salaries and more including:

• Health Savings Account
• Tuition Assistance
• Paid Volunteer time
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Dependent & Medical Reimbursement)
• Holidays
• Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance
• Sick Time
• Employee Referral Bonus
• Vacation Time
• 401(k) with company match

Summary

Balfour Beatty is seeking a Field Engineer for a project we have at Eccles in Washington DC. Responsible for laying out the work and checking installations by company crews and subcontractors for compliance with field engineering standards. Checks all work for compliance with contract documents and coordinates work by subcontractors. Oversee the physical layout of work and coordinate with Chief Field Engineer and Superintendent to ensure compliance with contract specifications by company and subcontractors.

Essential Functions

• Review submittals and coordinate with topographic drawings prepared by Project
• Monitors subcontractors' work to ensure tolerances are being
• Calculate dimensional data for layout
• Coach and train levels of newer engineers, rodmen, etc., to advance their
• Research contract documents and review approved shop drawings.
• Provide grid line offsets and benchmarks for
• Coordinate with Superintendent and schedule layout crews to perform without
• Maintain accurate as-built drawings and sketches.
• Maintain a good working relationship with
• Attend all required project
• Ensure safety program procedures are maintained in work

Perform miscellaneous duties as assigned.

Working Conditions

Most work occurs on construction sites. Due to daily condition changes on construction projects, when employees are outside of the office trailer or structure they must wear appropriate personal protective equipment as required by the company's safety policies and as required for weather conditions.

Physical Abilities

Sitting 30 - 50% of time on job.

Critical abilities: standing and walking 50 - 70% of time on job; climbing (stairs and ladders) average 10 times a day; stooping, kneeling, bending 20% of time on the job; repeated use of hands (typing, using hand tools, writing) 20% of time on the job; communicate (talking) 75% time on the job; hearing (phones, radios, alarms, general construction activity) 100% of time on the job; 20/20 vision (natural or with glasses or corrective lenses) and ability to detect small objects; able to wear Personal Protective Equipment (safety glasses, harnesses, hard hats, etc.) every day in required areas on the job; working at heights and in confined spaces 20% of time on the job; working in heat, cold, rain, snow, and ice = 20% of time on the job.

Helpful abilities: able to lift 40 pounds or more; push and pull objects weighing 50 pounds or more; able to identify and distinguish between colors.

Education, Experience, and Knowledge

• Act in a manner of integrity that shows support for the company, its values, and the employees, while maintaining constant focus on meeting/exceeding customer requirements and expectations.
• Has common knowledge of Algebra, Ordinary Geometry, and Trigonometry and can accurately calculate dimensional data for layout
• Experienced in using surveying software such as TSI, SMI, and
• Basic survey skills and knowledge of the correct and safe usage of surveying instruments including total station and equipment.
• Able to organize people, tools, and equipment and plan/manage multiple activities to accomplish desired
• Technical training or coursework in surveying, civil engineering, or a related field. Five years of relevant years of experience in the construction industry may be substituted for formal
• Experienced in blueprint reading and understands contract
• Has a working knowledge of job site tolerances and checks

Balfour Beatty US is an industry-leading provider of general contracting, at-risk construction management and design-build services for public and private sector clients across the nation. Performing heavy civil and vertical construction, our teams build the unique structures and infrastructure that play an important role in how people live, work, learn and play in our communities. Our teammates have an instinctive passion for innovating that is fueled by a relentless curiosity, a drive to employ lean practices and processes and the determination to find a better way. Through Zero Harm®, we are challenging the construction industry s assumptions about safety. We believe that no level of harm should come to anyone as a result of our business.

Consistently ranked among the nation s largest building contractors by Engineering News-Record, our US business is a subsidiary of London-based Balfour Beatty plc (LSE: BBY).

Balfour Beatty is an equal opportunity employer that recognizes the value of a diverse workforce. All qualified individuals will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other criteria protected by federal, state or local law.