Illinois Construction Services Office Engineering II

HNTB Corporation; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 82,000 - 123,000; Full time

Job summary

HNTB Corporation is seeking a capable contract administration professional to support field engineering on major infrastructure projects in Chicago, IL. You will assist the Resident Engineer and Project Manager, interpret plans, and review contractor submittals for compliance.

You will maintain as-built records, progress reports, and meeting notes while coordinating testing and quality control inspections. This role emphasizes documentation, scheduling, and close-out support.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering with 2 years relevant experience, or Master’s with 1 year, or Doctorate in Engineering.
• Experience interpreting contract plans and project documentation is preferred.
• Ability to review shop drawings, submittals, and contractor progress.

Responsibilities

• Assists Resident Engineer and/or Project Manager in contract administration and ensures compliance with plans and specifications.
• Maintains as-built drawings, project files, and records including test results and reports.
• Keeps inspector's daily report of activities and reviews monthly schedule submittals and pay estimates.
• Coordinates testing, quality control inspections, and related deliverables.
• Processes information requests, submittals, change orders, and other project documentation.

Skills

Excel

Contract administration

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Master's degree in Engineering

Doctorate degree in Engineering

Tools

Constructware

Asite

Job description

What We're Looking For

At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners.

This opportunity entails being responsible for performing basic contract administration and supporting field engineering functions in order to monitor individual contractor's compliance with specifications, plans and other contract provisions.

What You'll Do:

• Assists Resident Engineer and/or Project Manager in the administration of the construction contract. Provides interpretation of contract plans and specifications and reviews contractor's shop drawings and submittals for contract compliance, as applicable.




• Maintains as-built record drawings, project files, and records database including specifications, test results, and reports.




• Keeps inspector's daily report of assigned work activities. Performs reviews for approval of contractor's monthly schedule submittals and pay estimates.




• Coordinates testing and monitors services as well as quality control inspections.




• Responsible for logging, tracking, and processing requests for information, submittals, change orders, and other project deliverables.




• Prepares project progress reports, agendas, and minutes for meetings, conducts pre-construction meetings, and assists in preparing final project close-out documents.




• Assists in review of inspector's daily reports for conformance with the project requirements, plans, specifications, quantities, contractor's progress, and as-constructed data.




• Assist in the review, assembly, and processing of monthly progress payments.




• Performs other duties as assigned.

What You'll Need:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering and 2 years relevant experience, or




• Master's degree in Engineering and 1 year relevant experience, or




• Doctorate degree in Engineering.

What You'll Bring:

• Identifies complex discrepancies or conflicts within documents and evaluating the quality of work performed by using inspection checklists.




• Performs increasingly complex calculations, develops plots and graphs using Excel, and drafts detailed reports for project reporting to the client with guidance from more experienced staff.




• Performs basic shop drawing and submittal review and evaluates the contractor's CPM schedule.

What We Prefer:

• Engineer in Training (EIT) or American Concrete Institute (ACI).




• Trained in digital construction management software such as Constructware, Asite or similar preferred.

Additional Information

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Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Locations:

Chicago, IL

The approximate pay range for Illinois is $81,859.63 - $122,789.44. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position based on all selected locations within the state at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual’s qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state.

NOTICE TO THIRD-PARTY AGENCIES:

HNTB does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or agencies. Any staffing/employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume to this site does so with the understanding that the applicant's resume will become the property of HNTB. HNTB will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion and without any fee owed to the submitting staffing/employment agency, person or entity. Staffing/employment agencies who have fee agreements with HNTB must submit applicants to the designated HNTB recruiter to be eligible for placement fees.

Job Type: Regular

Full/Part Time: Full time

Job Category: Construction Services Group