Field Engineering Scope
The primary work location will be at the Nevada National Security Site (located 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada) in Area 6. The primary role of the Field Engineer is to support the Construction Department during construction activities for Issue for Construction (IFC) design packages of infrastructure projects. This may include construction projects, emerging project issues, providing support for project discovery, project scope development, and support for identifying functional requirements for projects and systems.
Responsibilities include:
• Participate in walk-downs, generate sketches, help develop conceptual designs, evaluate existing systems, and generate and/or review functional requirement documents.
• Ensure designs are properly reviewed, executed, installed, tested, and documented in accordance with the latest issued construction documents.
• Review engineering documents for constructability during various design reviews of 30%, 60% 90%, and IFC.
• Verify and report on construction installation quantities.
• Interface with Project Engineering to facilitate responses to Requests for Information (RFIs), Field Change Requests (FCRs), and needed design changes.
• Develop redline drawings for incorporation into as-built drawings.
• Prepare, review and approve material requisitions.
• Assist in interpretation of drawings and specifications for field crews and craft supervision.
• May serve as internal Subject Matter Expert with specific engineering discipline.
• Contribute to development of solutions to resolve construction issues.
• Assist in the preparation of work plans and work packages.
• May serve as internal subject matter expert with given engineering discipline.
• May serve as Project Field Engineer PFE on line-item projects.
• Mentor field engineering staff and other technical personnel in methods, processes, and best practices. Participate in project development by helping define customer needs, developing proposals and planning projects that will produce effective outcomes.
• Serve as an expert advisor to other project personnel, technical staff and management on technical issues. Ability to interpret codes and standards related to engineering discipline.
• Assist in the preparation of work plans and work packages.
• Leverage past knowledge to develop processes that drive efficiency and accountability.