Description
Inspect bridge construction and rehabilitation to verify compliance with plans, specifications, codes, and safety standards, applying civil engineering principles under the direction of engineers.
- • Calculate quantities, dimensions, elevations, and pay items for bridge components using calculator or computer.
- • Review bridge plans, shop drawings, and specifications to determine materials, tolerances, and construction requirements.
- • Draft or update field sketches and as-built markups to reflect actual conditions.
- • Analyze site conditions, staging, and access; document findings with logs, photos, and diagrams.
- • Prepare daily inspection reports, test results, and project documentation.
- • Confer with supervising engineers on acceptance criteria, inspection priorities, and field changes.
- • Inspect contractor work on formwork, reinforcement, prestressed girders, bearings, decks, joints, and drainage for conformance.
- • Verify survey control, lines, grades, and layout for bridge elements.
- • Witness and perform field tests for concrete, grout, soils, compaction, coatings, welds, and bolting; collect material samples.
- • Monitor environmental, erosion control, and work zone traffic control compliance.
- • Track installed quantities and develop pay estimates; verify invoices and change orders.
- • Report nonconforming work and recommend corrective actions; follow up on resolution.
- • Participate in pre-activity meetings, punch lists, and final acceptance and closeout.
- • Coordinate with stakeholders and respond to public inquiries about closures, detours, and project impacts.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
