Field Engineer: Construction Planning & Oversight

Cianbro; Brattleboro (VT); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Cianbro is seeking a professional in Brattleboro, VT with a 4-year degree in engineering or construction management to assist in planning, scheduling, and controlling complex construction projects. You will interpret drawings, manage submittals, and communicate production goals to crews while ensuring compliance with permits and safety standards.

The role emphasizes coordination with vendors, maintaining schedules, tracking change orders, and providing daily engineering input.

Qualifications

• Requires a 4-year degree in engineering or construction management.
• Knowledge of construction practices, scheduling, estimating, and safety.
• Excellent communication, organizational and supervisory skills.
• Willingness to travel.

Responsibilities

• Assist in proper project planning, value-added engineering means and methods, developing work packages, and preparing production indicators/benchmarks, and developing the master schedule.
• Ensure proper environmental permits are in place (identify any state or local laws relating to environmental compliance); Educate our team to ensure understanding and compliance with permit requirements.
• Interpret design/drawings for crafts installing material. Research and resolve drawing interpretation problems, conflicts, interferences, and errors. Verify that all completed work complies with applicable codes, drawings, and specifications.
• Provide engineering input to the daily job log.
• Interpret production goals from work packages for craft supervisors, ensuring full understanding to enable daily communication of productivity goals to crews executing the work.
• Verify quantity tracking data and measure productivity.
• Track progress of the major Vendors and Subcontractors to ensure that materials are manufactured and delivered in a timely fashion as not to impact the project schedule.
• Maintain the project schedule to aid project leadership in knowing where they are and making decisions for how to achieve project goals, with input from others.
• Generate and maintain the project submittal log, Requests For Information log, and correspondence with client/owner.
• Generate and maintain contract compliance listings, buyout logs, and procurement reports.
• Identify, document, and estimate costs of extra work activities, which were not anticipated in the original scope, and provide proper notification and financial reporting of change orders. Establish and maintain a project change order log that ties to the UAR.
• Coordinate the transmittal and subsequent approval of all submittals to the Owner/Engineer.

Skills

Communication

Organizational skills

Supervisory skills

Office software

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or construction management

Tools

Microsoft Word

Excel

Outlook

Job description

Cianbro is seeking a professional in Brattleboro, VT with a 4-year degree in engineering or construction management to assist in planning, scheduling, and controlling complex construction projects. You will interpret drawings, manage submittals, and communicate production goals to crews while ensuring compliance with permits and safety standards.

The role emphasizes coordination with vendors, maintaining schedules, tracking change orders, and providing daily engineering input.