Field Engineer

Job: Field Engineer

Location: Pell City, AL

Employment Type: Full-Time

Key responsibilities

• Establish site control Set and maintain jobsite benchmarks, control points, and building grid/control lines used for steel layout and erection.
• Tie site control to the project coordinate system and verify closure checks to ensure reliable control over time.
• Maintain control through project phases, including rechecks after earthwork, concrete placements, impacts, or other conditions that could disturb control.
• Anchor bolt verification set by others
• Perform pre-erection surveys of anchor bolt locations, projections, spacing, and elevations.
• Compare results to contract documents and provided control; identify out-of-tolerance conditions early.
• Prepare concise anchor bolt verification reports with sketches/photos, coordinates/elevations, and clear variance callouts for resolution.
• Erection control and steel verification
• Establish erection control lines for column lines, elevation benchmarks, and critical offsets.
• Provide layout support for column lines, and key geometry transitions.
• Measure erected steel for alignment, plumb, elevation, and plan position per project requirements.
• Support troubleshooting to help isolate whether dimensional issues are related to anchors, concrete fabrication, erection, or survey control.
• Dimensional tolerance checks and reporting
• Perform periodic and milestone tolerance checks.
• Produce professional reports documenting control points used, instrument method, date/time, conditions, as-built vs. design comparisons, and out-of-tolerance items.
• Recommend next steps clearly when issues are identified, such as hold, adjust, rework, or RFI.
• Coordination with field and project team
• Work closely with superintendents, foremen, PMs, detailers, and GC survey teams.
• Coordinate around critical picks and sequences so layout and verification happen at the right time.
• Communicate findings clearly and early to keep production moving and avoid rework.

What success looks like

• Reliable site control that crews trust and can work from every day.
• Anchor issues are identified before steel shows up with clear documentation.
• Steel is erected to AISC and specific project tolerances.
• Reports are clear, consistent, and useful for resolving disputes and protecting schedule/cost.

Required qualifications

• Field survey or dimensional control experience in construction.
• Strong understanding of building grids, control lines, benchmarks, elevations, and plan layout.
• Ability to read and interpret structural drawings, anchor bolt plans, shop/erection drawings, RFIs, and sketches.
• Proficiency with survey/layout instruments and workflows; total station/robotic total station preferred, GPS as applicable.
• Strong documentation skills, including written reports, marked-up plans, sketches, coordinates/elevations, and photo documentation.
• Willingness and ability to travel regionally across the Southeast.

Preferred, not required

• Structural steel erection experience, including layout for columns/frames and multi-level steel.
• Experience with digital layout and as-built workflows, including CAD-based layout, point files, data collectors, and BIM field points.
• Familiarity with tolerance standards and contractor coordination on survey responsibility splits.

Physical / field expectations

• Frequent work on active jobsites in outdoor conditions typical of the Southeast.
• Walking, climbing stairs/ladders, working around lifts/cranes, and working at elevation areas as permitted.
• Ability to access steel frame structure from elevated work platforms when available and walking structure when required.
• Familiarity with fall protection measures when working at heights.
• Flex schedule for critical erection activities, including early starts and occasional nights/weekends.