Instrumentation & Monitoring Field Quality Engineer

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Arcadis is seeking an Instrumentation & Monitoring (I&M) Field Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer to verify instrumentation installation, operation and construction interfaces in the field and to provide dependable site information for monitoring assessment. The role will inspect monitoring works against approved drawings, specifications, method statements and ITPs; verify baseline and commissioning activities; investigate field conditions following alerts; and record construction activities that may influence monitoring response.

Role accountabilities:

In this role, you will provide hands-on quality assurance across instrumentation and monitoring works in active construction areas. You will inspect proposed and completed instrument locations, access arrangements, protection, identification, cabling, dataloggers, survey control, and overall physical condition. You will also witness installation, commissioning, calibration checks, baseline and manual readings, and required hold or witness points, ensuring that field-fitted instruments remain accessible, protected, and compatible with evolving construction geometry.

You will play a vital part in maintaining reliable monitoring coverage as construction progresses. This will involve identifying instruments that become inaccessible, damaged, or unreliable; confirming that active work areas have appropriate monitoring; and recording factual information about nearby construction activities. Your field records will capture details such as location, time, equipment, work sequence, excavation level, piling or ground-improvement activities, and relevant site conditions.

When monitoring alerts arise, you will respond promptly by inspecting affected areas, checking instrument condition, and gathering photographs, measurements, and contractor information. Working closely with monitoring subcontractors and contractors, you will coordinate access, verification, and corrective actions while maintaining an independent QA role. You will review installation records, ITPs, method statements, drawings, calibration documentation, and as-built information to confirm that documentation is complete, consistent, and representative of observed site conditions.

You will help drive timely resolution by raising and tracking deficiencies, including incorrect installation, inadequate protection, damaged instruments, data interruptions, incomplete records, and unapproved changes. Through clear field reports, photographic records, marked-up drawings, and shift handover notes, you will provide dependable site information to the wider project team. You will also escalate unsafe conditions, material movement, or potentially significant performance concerns immediately.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in civil, geotechnical, geological or structural engineering, or a recognized engineering technology qualification with substantial relevant experience
• Minimum 7 years of construction field experience, including direct involvement with instrumentation, geotechnical works, foundations, excavation, piling, ground improvement or dewatering
• Practical knowledge of ITPs, hold and witness points, field inspections, commissioning records, non-conformances and as-built documentation
• Ability to interpret monitoring layouts, construction drawings, specifications and method statements
• Experience working directly with contractors and specialist instrumentation subcontractors
• Strong factual reporting, evidence collection and escalation skills

Role requirements

• Full-time site-based position with day or night shift assignment
• Regular outdoor work in active heavy-civil construction areas is required
• Must meet all project access, safety, PPE and fatigue-management requirements

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

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We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.