Job Description:

Build More with Your Career at Christman Constructors, Inc.

With projects throughout the Midwest, Christman Constructors, Inc. (CCI) is a great place to begin, continue or grow your career. We’re searching for the next generation of innovative minds who want to shape the world and live to build. CCI is looking for a Field Layout Engineer in our Central Michigan or West Michigan region!

What You Will Do:

As Field Layout Engineer, your primary daily responsibilities of this role include, but are not limited to:

• Plans, sets up, and maintains layout control for assigned construction project(s) and identifies unacceptable errors.
• Ensures that projects are built to the correct tolerances, and that quality standards are followed.
• Establishes building corners and permanent reference points to allow back checks of building location.
• Verifies existing elevations shown on drawings used on roadways and utilities.
• Lays out column center lines and wall locations, and verifies that exterior skin is not encroached by main structure.
• Plumbs structural steel frame and check column alignments.
• Sets and maintains benchmarks and control lines on each floor for use in layout, and verify that workers are using proper elevations and control lines.
• Checks slab for elevation and alignment during concrete pours.
• Performs as-built surveys to verify correct placement of work and to identify conflicts between items of work (i.e., where concrete slab edge or walls have encroached on the exterior skin), and may help maintain as-built drawings.
• Assists other project staff in securing certified layout from independent engineering resources to establish monument and baseline control and to verify building corners and roadway entrances.
• Calculates earth, rock, and concrete quantities accurately.
• Assists with the coordination of shop drawings with contract drawings, verifies accuracy, and proposes solutions to discrepancies between the drawings.
• Responsible for care, maintenance, and calibration of engineering equipment.
• Compiles and maintains project record and as-built documents. Ensures storage protocols are followed.

What You Will Bring to the Team:

Required experience, knowledge, and skills for this role include:

• Three (3) or more years of experience in Building Layout and using Total Station
• Graduation from relevant trade school with certificate in surveying. Or equivalent combination of the above education, training, and experience.

Preferred experience, knowledge, and skills for this role include:

• Basic understanding of Trimble and Nikon equipment
• Basic understanding of research methodology, data analysis, and estimation metrics.
• Experience within general trade carpentry.
  

The Christman family of companies is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer that is committed to diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or disability status. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.As part of our company policy, this position requires successful completion of pre-employment screening, including but not limited to drug and background screening.

Notice to Recruiting Agencies (Unsolicited Resumes): The Christman Company does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. Please do not forward unsolicited agency resumes to our applicant tracking system, website, or to any Christman employee/affiliates. Any unsolicited resumes sent to Christman employees or its' affiliates will be considered property of The Christman Company and will be processed accordingly. Christman will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume without an executed agreement and assigned to a specific search.