PA Transportation Construction Inspector Trainee - Halifax, PA, Halifax, Pennsylvania

Summary/Objective

This is a trainee position to learn to monitor the work of contractors to ensure quality control and contract compliance for roadway, structure, and bridge construction/maintenance projects of routine to moderate complexity, under the direction of a Construction Manager or designee.

Essential Functions the Trainee will learn and assist in includes

• Inspects and monitors contractual field work which could include excavation, drainage facilities, road surfaces, and structures
• Reports contractor's daily operations
• Takes field measurements of pay items
• Reviews placement of and witness tests on construction materials
• Reviews lines, grades, dimensions, and elevations.
• Oversees and enforces the installation of erosion/siltation controls and highways work zones and traffic control devices
• Maintains project records; including daily diaries, materials notebooks, as-built plans, pay quantity records, and monthly estimates
• Reviews and monitors 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
• Obtains and maintains required certifications

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Competencies

1. Communication proficiency
2. Ethical Conduct
3. Flexibility
4. Initiative
5. Time Management

Work Environment

This job is performed in an office environment and or transportation construction job sites. This role routinely uses field and standard office equipment such as computers, tablets, phones, photocopiers, digital cameras, filing cabinets, nuclear gauges, surveying tools, and other field-testing equipment materials.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; climb, drive; use hands; and reach with hands and arms.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time seasonal position. Flexibility to meet client or contractor schedule is important.

Travel

Most assignments do not require more than an hour of travel to and from job sites. However, some assignments will require extensive regional travel each day and others could require staying out of town overnight if distance to job site is greater than 90 miles from home.

Required Education and Experience

• Previous construction/design/engineering or construction inspector experience preferred
• Mathematics including algebra, geometry, and trigonometry
• High-School Diploma
• Construction experience is preferred

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

The Construction Inspector Trainee is expected to be willing to learn the following skills:

• Operating computer equipment.
• Functional computer and/or iPad
• Read and interpret roadway, structure and bridge plans and specification
• Apply mathematical formulas
• Maintain detailed records
• Perform and document required materials testing
• Communicate with the client and contractor personnel and the general public

Work Authorization/Security Clearance (if applicable)

Must be eligible to work in the U.S.

AAP/EEO Statement

QCS is committed to equal opportunity. We will not discriminate against employees or applicants for employment on any legally recognized basis including, but not limited to: veteran status, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information or any other protected class under federal, state or local law.

QCS has been and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer as per AAP outlined in the employee handbook.

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