Construction Inspector & Surveyor II

Minnesota Power, an ALLETE company, is an electric utility headquartered in Duluth, Minnesota.

We provide electricity in a 26,000-square-mile service area in northeastern Minnesota to 150,000 customers, including 14 municipal systems and some of the nation's largest industrial customers.

Minnesota Power is committed to a sustainable future for the climate, our customers and our communities while delivering safe and reliable energy.

We play a unique and significant role in ALLETE's sustainability-in-action strategy.

Our culture drives excellence through our shared values of integrity, safety, people, and the planet.

Minnesota Power is seeking an Inspector II to join its Engineering Services team.

The role involves providing field support to the construction and project management group, focusing on substation utility work, transmission projects, dam inspections, and opportunities to work on solar, wind, battery storage, and HVDC projects.

Responsibilities include inspecting construction projects for adherence to specifications, performing construction staking and monitoring surveys, ensuring compliance with standards, and avoiding project delays.

Work is conducted on location at project sites.

Minnesota Power offers a flexible, friendly work environment, expansive opportunities to grow and develop in your career, and a culture that drives excellence through our shared values of integrity, safety, people, and planet.

We offer choice in the things that matter to you: your money, your health, your time, and your career.

The compensation package includes a competitive, market-based salary, a robust retirement plan, medical and dental benefits, company-supported continuing education, generous time off, professional development opportunities, an incentive plan, and other perks.

RESPONSIBILITIES:


* Under moderate supervision, inspect a wide variety of construction projects for adherence to specifications.


* Effective performance required to assure that surveys and inspections comply with accepted standards, contract work meets specifications, and all is conducted to avoid delay in project completion.


* Inspect construction projects such as service centers, generating stations, substations, transmission lines, etc., to assure completion of work in accordance with contract specifications; works with design engineers to resolve problems arising in field.

Includes inspection of earthwork, underground utilities, roads, concrete foundations and structures masonry, steel structures, building components, and coatings.


* Conduct a variety of surveys such as land, topographical, line and structure locations.


* Perform related office duties such as verification of invoices, costs of material, labor, equipment, and other charges to assure conformance with contract terms; analyzes construction costs and records for future use in estimates and specifications.


* Assist the project team in executing large and small scale engineering a...