Construction Quality Field Engineer

Job description

BRPH is a technically focused, creative architecture, engineering, and construction company with over six decades of expertise in helping mission-driven clients in the aerospace, defense, manufacturing, commercial, education, entertainment, hospitality, and federal markets identify gaps in their program delivery and develop innovative solutions to their most challenging problems across the U.S. and around the world. Consistently ranked among the nation’s top firms, we take pride in solving complex challenges with forward-thinking solutions. As an employee-owned company, BRPH is known for its collaborative culture, technical excellence, and client-focused approach, bringing together multidisciplinary teams to design and build environments that are functional, efficient, and future-ready. **Overview** The Quality Field Engineer is a developing field quality role within Construction and Integrated Services (C&IS) that supports implementation of project-specific quality requirements on active construction and design-build projects. The role completes assigned inspections, observations, and records within established procedures and acceptance criteria; receives regular direction and review from the CQC Manager or designated project quality leader; coordinates routine findings with field, project, design, trade-partner, testing, and client representatives; and escalates exceptions, disputed conditions, and decisions outside assigned authority. The Quality Field Engineer helps verify that work, materials, and documentation conform to approved drawings, specifications, submittals, contract requirements, applicable codes, and the BRPH Quality Management System (QMS). The role builds specialized construction-quality capability through increasingly complex assignments while remaining within defined review, approval, and escalation boundaries. **Job Responsibilities** • Perform assigned routine, scheduled, and hold-point inspections in accordance with the project-specific Quality Control Plan, approved inspection criteria, and direction from the CQC Manager or designated project quality leader. • Review applicable drawings, specifications, approved submittals, requests for information, manufacturer instructions, checklists, and acceptance criteria before inspecting the work. • Monitor workmanship, materials, equipment, installation activities, and protection of completed work for conformance with approved project requirements. • Participate in preparatory, initial, and follow-up control activities when required by the contract, project Quality Control Plan, or assigned definable feature of work. • Create clear, timely quality observations in Procore or the approved project system, including location, issue, requirement reference, measurements or tolerances when applicable, photographs, disposition status, responsible party, and required action. • Identify and promptly communicate incomplete, deficient, or nonconforming work to the CQC Manager, Superintendent, Project Manager, responsible trade partner, and other parties identified by the project communication plan. • Exercise documented authority to stop or restrict affected work when continuing could adversely affect quality or conceal a defect, and immediately elevate the condition through the project quality escalation path. • Assist with preparing, tracking, verifying, and closing nonconformance reports, deficiency items, punch-list items, and corrective-action records within assigned authority and required review checkpoints. • Verify completed corrective work against documented acceptance criteria and submit the supporting evidence for approval or closure by the responsible quality authority. • Coordinate assigned inspections and tests with trade partners, third-party testing agencies, commissioning personnel, design professionals, authorities having jurisdiction, and client representatives. • Inspect delivered materials and equipment for consistency with approved submittals and document storage, protection, identification, certification, damage, and nonconforming-material controls. • Maintain organized and traceable inspection reports, test reports, material certifications, photographs, checklists, observation logs, deficiency records, and closeout documentation. • Participate in preinstallation meetings, site walks, coordination meetings, constructability discussions, quality planning, commissioning, turnover, and closeout activities as assigned. • Raise drawing conflicts, field conditions, constructability concerns, and potential quality impacts from proposed changes before affected work proceeds or is concealed. • Use current project documents and follow approved document-control, safety, and personal protective equipment requirements while working in active construction areas. • Support lessons learned and continuous-improvement activities by communicating recurring issues, effective controls, and practical field feedback. **Qualifications** • **Required**: Bachelor's degree in construction management, construction engineering, construction science, engineering, architecture, quality management, or a related discipline, or five years of relevant construction, inspection, testing, project engineering, field supervision, or quality experience in lieu of the degree. • **Required**: Minimum 2 years’ experience reading and applying construction drawings, specifications, approved submittals, inspection criteria, manufacturer instructions, and project quality procedures. • **Required**: Minimum 2 years’ experience with documenting objective inspection evidence clearly, recognizing conditions that do not meet requirements, coordinating routine corrective actions, and escalating decisions outside assigned authority. • **Required**: Minimum 2 years’ working knowledge of construction methods, materials, building systems, inspection and testing practices, document control, and field safety appropriate to assigned work. • **Required**: Minimum 2 years’ experience with Microsoft Office, Procore, and mobile inspection, documentation, and collaboration tools applicable to assigned work. • **Required**: OSHA 10-Hour Construction Outreach Training Program course completion card. • *Preferred*: Experience with design-build delivery, definable features of work, quality observations, nonconformance tracking, commissioning, turnover, or project closeout. • *Preferred*: International Code Council inspector credential, American Concrete Institute field-testing credential, or another inspection or testing credential relevant to assigned work. • *Preferred*: Working experience with Artificial Intelligence (**AI**) tools or platforms. **Physical Requirements** • Ability to navigate and move around active construction sites, including walking, climbing ladders and scaffolding, and standing for extended periods on uneven surfaces. • Ability to lift up to 50 pounds. • Ability to handle inspection tools, equipment, and materials requiring coordination and manual skills. • Manual dexterity, hearing, mental acuity, typing, reaching, repetitive motion, speaking, talking, and visual acuity. • Ability to operate a motor vehicle. • Ability to stand and sit for periods longer than 30 minutes but not to exceed two hours consecutively. • Ability to print and draw letters, numbers, words, characters, and symbols that are legible and understood by others. • Ability to learn complex tasks and remember how to complete tasks without assistance once trained. • Ability to control behavior when encountering stressful situations or short deadlines and maintain a high level of concentration. • Quick thinking and decision-making ability to address issues and challenges that may arise during construction. • Endurance to work in various weather conditions and handle the physical demands of an active construction site. • Strict adherence to safety protocols and the ability to reinforce quality and safety requirements on the construction site. • Adherence to personal protective equipment requirements, including hard hats, safety glasses, high-visibility vests, gloves, hearing protection, and safety-toed footwear. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This job description may be changed to include new responsibilities and tasks or change existing ones as management deems necessary. This job description may be changed to include new responsibilities and tasks or change existing ones as management deems necessary. *EOE, including Disability/Vets*