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Job Description: Field Engineer

Reports To: Superintendent / Project Manager / Operations Manager

Position Summary:

The Field Engineer plays a key role in supporting project crews with accurate layout and facilitates project startup. He/she collaborates with our BIM Design Manger and project managers to modify, manage, and prepare CAD files, points files, and control maps. This position ensures our field crews are properly equipped to begin layout with precision and efficiency, after which the crews assume ongoing layout responsibilities. Once the layout is properly established, the field engineer transitions layout responsibilities to the crews, while remaining available to provide support and monitor job progress to ensure accuracy.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with our Project Managers to request CAD files, control points, and control maps and ensure they are saved in project files.
• Prepare and process CAD files for import into layout equipment (Robotic Total Stations and GPS base/rovers).
• Utilities: Clean up civil CAD files, bind external references, and reduce file size.
• Plumbing: Export DWG files from Revit models. Clean up exported DWG files, bind external references, and reduce file size.
• Upload files to Trimble Connect or save to USB device for import into older equipment.
• Set up jobs in data collectors and import CAD/control files.
• Set up and localize GPS base stations, ensuring relative errors are within tolerances.
• Re-section total stations, confirm accuracy within , and establish backup stakes for future re-sectioning.
• Establish initial layout, offsets, and control points for crews to begin construction activities.
• Stake points for control lines and trunk lines to enable crews to begin excavation.
• Provide training, guidance, and troubleshooting assistance to crews as needed.
• Collaborate with general contractors and/or surveyors to resolve discrepancies.
• Collaborate with general contractors and/or surveyors to determine accurate placement of building drawings within the site. Insert and align building drawings (structural, architectural, and plumbing) into civil files whenever possible.
• Collaborate with our BIM design manager to assist in the annotation and production of shop drawings as needed to support production.
• Maintain organized digital and field records of layout files, points, and revisions.
• Maintain calibration records on all layout equipment and ensure it gets calibrated as needed.

Qualifications:

• 5 years min. field experience as a construction field engineer, surveyor, or other similar position.
• Proficiency with CAD software and construction layout technology (e.g., Trimble, Topcon, Leica).
• Strong understanding of construction drawings, survey data, and field layout practices.
• Excellent organizational, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently in the field while supporting multiple crews.
• Commitment to safety and quality.

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