About This Role
This senior transportation inspector role involves providing on-site compliance inspection, quality assurance, and progress monitoring for transportation projects, with a focus on VDOT or other DOT work. The inspector will serve as a key on-site contact, coordinate with various stakeholders, and offer mentorship to less experienced inspectors.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a key on-site contact to coordinate with clients, contractors, adjacent property owners, and project stakeholders while representing MBP
- Provide guidance to contractors regarding conformance with plans, specifications, and codes
- Oversee quality assurance and progress monitoring for assigned operations and recommend corrective actions within project scope
- Exercise sound judgment in field conditions and support MBP objectives through professional communication and coordination
- Offer mentorship to less experienced inspectors and contribute to a safe and compliant work environment
- Provide on-site compliance inspection, quality assurance, and progress monitoring for conformance to plans, contracts, specifications, and applicable codes; advise contractors of discrepancies and facilitate corrective actions
- Maintain project records including daily diaries, materials notebook, permit compliance, and civil rights compliance; perform algebraic, geometric, and trigonometric calculations and prepare associated sketches in daily diaries
- Check materials and review material documents to verify testing and coordinate additional samples to clients or testing laboratories for verification
- Review payment applications, provide final inspections, and create and track punchlists
- Communicate professionally with the client, contractor, traveling public, adjacent property owners, other project stakeholders, and MBP team members
- Provide oversight of less experienced construction inspectors and assist with training
- Verify that highway work zones and traffic control conform to current standards
- Perform work of basic to moderate difficulty including materials testing and basic surveying
- Complete administrative tasks including a daily timesheet, monthly expense report, and monthly mileage report
- Work on project sites, including standing and sitting as needed, climbing ladders, working at heights, working outdoors in a wide range of weather conditions, and safely navigating uneven terrain
Requirements
- Construction work experience with advanced understanding of construction means and methods for transportation projects
- VDOT or other DOT experience inspecting projects including roadway widening, intersection improvements, signalization, bridges, roadway maintenance, streetscape, utilities, and similar work activities
