Returning Inspector I - Central States Office - For Current/Former HNTB Interns Only
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HNTB is hiring a Returning Inspector I to conduct on-site construction inspections for client projects. The role verifies contractor work and materials against plans and specifications, performs measurements and calculations, maintains daily reports, and assists with material testing and as-constructed sketches. Applicants must be current or former HNTB interns and have a high school diploma or equivalent and one year of construction experience.
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What We're Looking For
At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners.
This opportunity entails being responsible for conducting on-site construction inspections for projects supporting our clients. Provides inspection services for compliance with plans and specifications, prepares required contract documentation, and follows prescribed Quality Assurance and Quality Control procedures.
This position is for current/former HNTB interns only.
What You'll Do:
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Observes, documents, and verifies work in progress by the construction contractor to ensure compliance with contract documents and plans. Confirms procedures are followed and material used conforms to specifications.
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Utilizes engineering inspection practices to perform rudimentary mathematical calculations and measurements of completed work to date.
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Maintains Inspector's daily report of assigned work activities, contactor labor and equipment, quantity of material received and verified.
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Assists in on-site material testing and produces as-constructed sketches as required.
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Performs other duties as assigned.
What You'll Need:
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High School Diploma/GED or equivalent and 1 year of construction experience.
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All required jurisdictional certificates and state requirements.
What You'll Bring:
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Reads and understands plans and specifications.
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Recognizes, documents, and escalates field issues.
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Calculates pay quantities.
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Understands change conditions.
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Understands Microsoft Office Suite and other computer skills at an intermediate level.
What We Prefer:
- Previous HNTB Internship experience
Additional Information
Click here for benefits information: HNTB Total Rewards
Click here to learn more about Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
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Locations:
Des Moines, IA, Kansas City, MO, Oklahoma City, OK, Overland Park, KS (129th Street), Overland Park, KS (Sprint Parkway)
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NOTICE TO THIRD-PARTY AGENCIES:
HNTB does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or agencies. Any staffing/employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume to this site does so with the understanding that the applicant's resume will become the property of HNTB. HNTB will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion and without any fee owed to the submitting staffing/employment agency, person or entity. Staffing/employment agencies who have fee agreements with HNTB must submit applicants to the designated HNTB recruiter to be eligible for placement fees.
Job Type: Regular
Full/Part Time: Full time
Job Category: Construction Services Group
ReqID: R-32077 #college
How this job compares
Set against the 755 open Construction Inspector jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$76–115K/yr123 salary ranges
- US median$37–55/hr254 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 10 open Construction Inspector jobs in Kansas and 755 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Construction Inspector postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 503 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 437 of the 755 open Construction Inspector jobs (58%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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