Founded in 1898, Burns McDonnell is an award-winning engineering, architectural, construction, environmental and consulting services firm. We are 100% employee-owned, with regional and project offices nationwide. Burns McDonnell plans, designs, constructs and manages projects all over the world with one mission in mind -- to make our clients successful.

Burns McDonnell has an exciting opportunity based out of our Chicago Office for a Field Civil Engineer. The selected candidate will have the opportunity to work on construction projects supporting our Transportation group. Most of the project work would be construction management as an owner representative for clients such as IDOT, the Illinois Tollway, and CDOT. There will also be project work opportunities for alternate delivery construction managing civil site construction elements on larger projects. Transportation projects could include rural roadway, expressways and bridges. Civil site work could include power plants, substations and a multitude of facility work.

Responsibilities

Ensure the work of the Contractor is built to the plans and specifications of the contract documents.Identify and inform the project engineer or supervisor of observed problems and issuesField measurements documentation of pay quantities.Generate daily activity reports describing progress of the work.Assists the Resident Engineer with construction contract administration mattersReviews shop drawings, submittals, plans, specifications, estimates, and change order requests.Expected to work at project field offices or on site at the project.