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Field Engineer

Pell City, AL • On-site

Garrison Steel Erectors, Inc.
Construction • 51 - 200 employees

Full-time

Posted 21 days ago


Key responsibilities

  • Establish and maintain site control, including benchmarks, control points, and building grid/control lines.

  • Perform pre-erection surveys of anchor bolt locations and verify their accuracy against contract documents and control points.

  • Measure erected steel for alignment, plumb, elevation, and plan position, and produce reports documenting these verifications.


Job description

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Position Description
What this role does
This is a field-forward engineering and survey role focused on dimensional control for structural steel erection. The role establishes and maintains site control, including benchmarks, control points, and building grid/control lines; verifies anchor bolt layouts set by others; and measures erected steel to confirm the structure meets required tolerances in plan view and elevation. The position produces clear, professional reports that support erection accuracy, issue resolution, and project documentation.
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 teams
  • 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.

Position Requirements
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.

Equal Opportunity Employer
Garrison Steel is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
Garrison Steel provides reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants and employees with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs, practices, and observances. Applicants who require assistance or an accommodation during the hiring process should contact Human Resources.