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What they do
A Construction or Building Inspector inspects new construction or renovated buildings to check for compliance with government safety codes and zoning requirements. Checks building structures and foundations, or provides inspections of electrical systems, plumbing or heating and cooling systems, or building elevators.
$58,051 / year median in the U.S.
+12% projected growth
Job Description
What Your Day Will Look Like:
As a construction inspector, you'll monitor the contractor's on-site construction activities and inspect materials to ensure compliance with plans, specifications, and other contract documents related to excavations, drainage facilities, road surfaces, and structures. You'll take field measurements of pay items, report the contractor's daily production rates, and schedule work and inspection phases with the contractor's superintendent and agency personnel. Provide support to various project procedures, particularly in documentation development for the final estimate package. The construction inspector reports to the Project Manager.What You'll Do:
- Inspect, observe, document, and verify work in progress by the construction contractor to ensure compliance with project schedule, contract documents, and plans.
- Utilize engineering inspection practices to perform complex mathematical calculations and measurements of completed work to date.
- Maintain inspector's daily report of assigned work activities, contractor labor and equipment, quantity of material received and verified.
- Perform on-site material testing and produce as-constructed sketches as required.
What You'll Need:
- HS Diploma or equivalent.
- 2+ years of construction inspection experience.
- DOT Certifications in one or more area.
- Ability to read and interpret construction plans and specifications.
- Obtain any required certifications and pass appropriate qualifications tests for the position in specified time frames.
- Must have a valid driver's license with a good driving record.
- This field job primarily operates in outdoor work environments that may include exposure to inclement weather, heat, humidity, noise, hazard, atmospheric conditions, and bodies of water, depending on project requirements.
- While performing the duties of this job, physical demands of the employee may include frequent talking, hearing, standing, moving, walking, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, reaching, handling, grasping, feeling, balancing, coordination, and occasional sitting or operating a company vehicle.