Sr. Construction Inspector

Consor; Knoxville (TN); On-site; USD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Consor in Knoxville, TN is seeking a construction inspector to monitor on-site activities, verify materials, and ensure all work aligns with plans, specifications, and contract documents for excavations, drainage, roads, and structures.

You will take field measurements, report daily production, schedule inspection phases with the superintendent and agency personnel, and support final estimate documentation.

Qualifications

• Experience inspecting construction work to ensure compliance with plans and specs.
• Ability to read and interpret construction drawings and specifications.
• Capable of performing mathematical calculations and measurements for progress tracking.

Responsibilities

• Inspect, observe, document, and verify work in progress to ensure schedule and contract compliance.
• Maintain daily reports on contractor labor, equipment, and material quantities.
• Record field measurements and produce as-constructed sketches as required.
• Support documentation development for final estimate package.

Skills

On-site inspection

Read construction plans

Mathematical calculations

Documentation & reporting

Education

HS Diploma or equivalent

3+ years of construction inspection experience

Job description

What Your Day Will Look Like

As a construction inspector, you'll monitor the contractor's on-site construction activities and inspect materials to ensure compliance with plans, specifications, and other contract documents related to excavations, drainage facilities, road surfaces, and structures. You'll take field measurements of pay items, report the contractor's daily production rates, and schedule work and inspection phases with the contractor's superintendent and agency personnel. Provide support to various project procedures, particularly in documentation development for the final estimate package. The construction inspector reports to the project administrator.

What You'll Do

• Inspect, observe, document, and verify work in progress by the construction contractor to ensure compliance with project schedule, contract documents, and plans.
• Utilize engineering inspection practices to perform complex mathematical calculations and measurements of completed work to date.
• Maintain inspector's daily report of assigned work activities, contractor labor and equipment, quantity of material received and verified.
• Perform on-site material testing and produce as-constructed sketches as required.

What You'll Need

• HS Diploma or equivalent.
• 3+ years of construction inspection experience.
• Ability to read and interpret construction plans and specifications.
• Obtain any required certifications and pass appropriate qualifications tests for the position in specified time frames.
• Must have a valid driver's license with a good driving record.
• This field job primarily operates in outdoor work environments that may include exposure to inclement weather, heat, humidity, noise, hazard, atmospheric conditions, and bodies of water, depending on project requirements.
• While performing the duties of this job, physical demands of the employee may include frequent talking, hearing, standing, moving, walking, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, reaching, handling, grasping, feeling, balancing, coordination, and occasional sitting or operating a company vehicle. This job may require lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling up to 35 lbs.

What Benefits You'll Enjoy

We invest in us. Because our team members go above, below, and beyond the surface to care for our communities (inside and out), we do our best to take care of you by providing a comprehensive benefits package !

Eligibility for some of the benefits outlined below is based on full-time work status; part-time and contingent positions are only eligible based on