Field Engineer, Civil Infrastructure – Field & QA Leader

Luster National; New Jersey; On-site; USD 85,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited flexible time off

Paid holidays

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) plan with guaranteed employer

Job summary

Luster National is seeking Field Engineers of varying levels to support large-scale heavy civil infrastructure programs, including highways, bridges, transit, airports, and water projects. You will verify that on-site work matches approved documents, maintain field records, and document issues as they occur to support project decisions.

These roles span multiple experience levels; you will contribute to QA testing, pay item verification, and close-out activities while collaborating with the

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, construction engineering, construction management, or structural engineering, or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 5+ years of field engineering or construction management experience for large, complex heavy-civil infrastructure projects.
• Working knowledge of construction plans, specifications, submittals, and RFIs, and ability to interpret them against field work.
• Experience maintaining construction field records, including daily reports, quantity records, and site conditions documentation.
• Working knowledge of construction materials testing, acceptance procedures, and QA documentation on heavy civil projects.
• Experience with industry standard construction document control and field documentation software.

Responsibilities

• Monitor daily construction activities against approved plans, specifications, and permit conditions, and document what was built, where, and under what conditions.
• Prepare and maintain project field records, including daily reports, quantity records, photographs, and logs of site conditions, delays, and directives.
• Verify installed quantities and work in place against contract pay items, and support review of progress payment applications.
• Review submittals, shop drawings, and material documentation for conformance with contract documents, and track them through to disposition.
• Coordinate RFIs among contractor, designer of record, and program team, and drive responses to closure so field work is not held up.
• Witness and document acceptance testing and materials sampling under QA program, and record nonconforming work until corrected.
• Verify structures work against approved shop and working drawings, including falsework and shoring, reinforcing steel placement, and concrete placement.
• Compare schedule updates and look-ahead plans against observed field progress, and flag deviations that risk milestones.
• Document field issues, differing site conditions, and changed work as they occur to support claims posture.
• Support construction oversight around active corridors and facilities, ensuring access restrictions hold.
• Support close-out, including punch list tracking and turnover documentation.

Skills

Field engineering

Construction management

RFI interpretation

Field records documentation

Materials testing QA

Document control software

MS Office

Education

Bachelor's degree in civil/related field

Tools

Bluebeam Revu

Adobe Acrobat

Procore

e-Builder

Aconex

Job description

Luster National is seeking Field Engineers of varying levels to support large-scale heavy civil infrastructure programs, including highways, bridges, transit, airports, and water projects. You will verify that on-site work matches approved documents, maintain field records, and document issues as they occur to support project decisions.

These roles span multiple experience levels; you will contribute to QA testing, pay item verification, and close-out activities while collaborating with the