Civil Inspector (Temporary assignment with full benefits)

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

The Civil Inspector will provide oversight for the construction of projects’ civil components in accordance with plan specifications and departmental guidelines in order to ensure that requirements regarding schedule, cost, and quality are met. This is a temporary assignment with full benefits.

Main accountabilities:

• Provide support to the Quality Assurance Inspector to ensure that public road improvements, private access roads, crane pads, wind turbine foundations, collection systems, switchyards, substations, transmission lines, and lay down yards are built in accordance with the projects civil design documents

• Provide oversight to ensure that the execution of work is in compliance with approved contracts

• Monitor the execution and implementation of the project schedule

• Develop effective relationships with contractors, suppliers, landowners, and the local community

• Maintain a thorough understanding of all project documents

• Review plans and procedures periodically and institute changes when necessary

• Develop and foster a spirit of project team effort

• Ensure that contractors abide by their own QA/QC plans

• Provide support in reviewing all contractor-supplied QA/QC documentation for completeness

• Identify critical issues and make recommendations to the Project Manager

• Review and comment on contractors’ schedules

• Provide assistance to the project team in meeting the overall project objectives

• Oversee contractors’ civil construction installation and commissioning work

• Prepare daily reports outlining progress of the work

• Ensure that the company’s safety, quality, schedule, and cost objectives are achieved

• Provide input regarding the project design process

• Maintain effective lines of communication with all company personnel responsible for the project along with all general contractors and sub-contractors

• Support development of the civil construction portions of BOP contracts and exhibits

• Additional duties as required

Direct Reports: None

Travel: None

Minimum Requirements:

• 5 years in the power industry

• Thorough knowledge of civil engineering, mathematics, civil construction, road construction standards, and foundations codes

• Proficient with MS Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook)

Behavioral requirements:

• Ability to comprehend all construction documents including blueprints and drawings

• Ability to exhibit a professional demeanor to customers and other employees

• Visual acuity including sufficient depth perception, color recognition, and field of vision necessary to perform visual inspections, work with small parts, and take accurate measurements

• Strong problem-solving, statistical, and analytical skills

• Verbal and written communication and presentation skills

• Ability to be self-motivated

Physical Demands & Working Conditions:

• Sitting/Standing/Flexibility: Ability to frequently perform physical tasks including standing, sitting, walking, kneeling, bending, twisting, squatting, and reaching approximately 75% of the time while on wind farm sites. Ability to stand and sit for 8 or more hours when in an office environment.

• Walking: Ability to walk .25 to .5 miles per day, including across unpaved and rough surfaces when on wind farm sites

• Speech/Reading: Ability to speak, read, and write English proficiently and deliver a variety of instructions furnished in written, verbal, diagram, or schedule form

• Lifting: Ability to frequently lift items weighing up to 60 pounds and to occasionally lift items weighing between 60 and 100 pounds

• Vision/Hearing: Ability to interpret and follow a variety of instructions furnished in written, verbal, diagram, or schedule form

• Tolerance to Extreme Weather Conditions: Ability to work in adverse weather conditions 25% of the time while on wind farm sites

• Safety: Ability to understand and communicate safety precautions when necessary

High School or better.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)