Tunnel Inspector - Rail Transit Project

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Visit construction sites and inspects each stage of construction up to completion. Interpret plans, specifications, and codes and verify contract work is performed in accordance with them.
• Assist in obtaining approved designs and permits from utility companies for services to construction sites.
• Monitor construction sites for safety violations.
• Prepare Non-Conformance Reports when work is not performed to the approved standards.
• Maintain daily activity logs and reports.
• Review or prepare interim progress reports for contractor payments.
• Monitor contractor testing activities.
• Prepare reports on labor, material, and equipment on site.
• Determine construction conforms to plans and specifications, if not issue Non-Conformance Reports for corrective action.
• Assist in maintaining, supporting, and promoting a safe work environment while complying with the project’s safety rules, policies, and procedures.
• Coordinate preparation of inspection cost estimates and maintenance records.
• Arrange, coordinate, and oversee technical inspections such as electrical, mechanical, landscaping, soil testing, concrete, and asphalt mixes, and reinforcing steel for conformance to specification requirements.
• Coordinate test laboratory activities and compare verifications test results with the result from the contractor’s laboratory.
• May allocate inspection resources and supervise inspectors.

Qualifications: 

• Approximately five (5) years of experience for Associate positions, approximately ten (10) years of experience for Senior and Lead positions which reflect a progressively increasing level of responsibility on complex projects as a General Contractor, Building Construction Supervisor, Building Inspector of large commercial or industrial construction projects, heavy construction projects, transportation, or transit construction projects for the appropriate disciplines including utilities, civil, architectural, structural, electrical, mechanical and trackwork. 
• ICC Certificate of Reinforced Concrete or Masonry, ACI Registered Contraction Inspector License, comparable Deputy Inspection License for a county for city agency. NICET certification, or alternative certification from an acceptable nationally recognized organization is highly desirable where applicable to Inspection of that particular trade. 
• Cal-OSHA / OSHA 30-Hour safety certification prior to the start of work on the project

Additional Qualifications: 

• Approximately ten (10) years of recent experience in Construction Management, of which at least five (5) years in Tunnel Inspection of large and complex engineering / construction projects. 
• Experience in two projects or more of relevant, verifiable Tunneling projects with features similar to those of the assigned project. This experience shall include Verifiable Earth Pressure Balance or Slurry TBM projects of a diameter greater than 15 ft. 
• Full knowledge of Tunnel Inspection methods and Current Tunnel Construction techniques; Construction Materials necessary to determine the quality and correct use in projects; and the safe working habits and regulations in relation to different phases of construction.