The Civil Inspector works closely with the Resident Engineer (RE), Assistant Resident Engineer (ARE), Contractor, QA/QC team, surveyors, and Client representatives to monitor construction progress, verify workmanship and materials, identify site issues, and ensure compliance with project requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Be fully familiar with the project contract documents, approved detailed drawings, technical specifications, method statements, inspection and test plans, health and safety requirements, and all approved revisions or updates.
- Monitor and ensure the Contractor’s compliance with the requirements, standards, specifications, drawings, and approved documents of the contract.
- Undertake daily site supervision and inspections of civil and infrastructure works as required or instructed by the Resident Engineer (RE) or Assistant Resident Engineer (ARE).
- Liaise with the Contractor on a daily basis and follow up on construction activities, manpower, equipment, materials, work sequences, and site requirements.
- Monitor the Contractor’s management and utilization of manpower, plant, equipment, materials, and other resources to ensure that construction activities are progressing effectively.
- Monitor compliance with project health, safety, and environmental requirements and promptly report unsafe conditions, practices, or activities to the RE/ARE.
- Maintain accurate daily records of the Contractor’s manpower, equipment, plant, materials, and site activities.
- Prepare and submit daily inspection and site reports to the RE/ARE, including details of completed works, ongoing activities, work orders, material deliveries, inspections, testing, resources, and any site issues.
- Follow up on and assist in implementing site instructions issued by the RE and ARE, ensuring that the Contractor takes appropriate corrective action within the required timeframe.
- Apply and implement project quality control procedures and ensure that construction activities comply with the approved Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) requirements.
- Monitor the Contractor’s QA/QC activities, inspection requests, testing activities, quality records, and corrective actions, and maintain relevant documentation.
- Inspect materials delivered to site and verify their compliance with approved material submittals, specifications, drawings, and contract requirements.
- Maintain records of material testing, laboratory test results, inspections, approved works, rejected works, corrective actions, and other relevant quality documentation.
- Carry out site measurements, quantity verification, and surveying checks as required by the RE/ARE, particularly for pipe alignments, levels, invert levels, gradients, and other infrastructure works.
- Verify construction dimensions, levels, line, grade, location, and alignment against approved drawings and specifications.
- Audit and inspect construction activities for conformity with contract documents, approved drawings, specifications, method statements, inspection and test plans, and Contractor-submitted plans.
- Identify defective, non-conforming, or substandard work and immediately report such issues to the RE/ARE for appropriate action.
- Assist the RE and ARE in identifying, investigating, and resolving site problems and technical issues promptly.
- Coordinate and cooperate with the Client’s Project Manager and other Client representatives during site inspections, ensuring that inspections are conducted in the presence of the RE or ARE where required.
- Assist the RE and ARE in monitoring construction progress and achievement of key project milestones.
- Monitor the start-up, commissioning, testing, completion, and handover of infrastructure works and maintain appropriate records of project milestones and completion activities.
- Verify completed works prior to inspection, testing, commissioning, and handover.
- Assist in maintaining accurate project records, inspection documentation, site photographs, test reports, measurements, correspondence, and other construction records.
- Assist the RE and ARE in preparing technical correspondence, site instructions, inspection records, non-conformance documentation, and other project-related communications in accordance with contract requirements.
- Communicate site observations, progress, quality concerns, safety issues, and Contractor performance matters to the RE/ARE in a timely manner.
- Ensure that all inspection and monitoring activities are properly documented and that relevant records are maintained for project control and audit purposes.