Team Leader - Bridge Inspection

TruelineNew York, New York, United StatesOnsite

Trueline’s client is seeking a Team Leader, Bridge Inspection to join their team in New York, NY (on-site plus fieldwork). This is a hands on leadership role where you’ll oversee routine bridge condition assessments and uplift the growth of junior inspectors, all while ensuring high quality, standards driven deliverables.

What You’ll Do as the Team Leader, Bridge Inspection:

Lead and conduct bridge and structural inspections, accurately documenting findings using agency tools and reporting formats.
Coordinate with an Assistant Team Leader to manage inspection schedules and ensure timely completion.
Mentor and guide junior inspection staff, fostering skill development and collaboration.
Communicate clearly and professionally with internal teams, clients, subcontractors, and field personnel.

Must Haves as the Team Leader, Bridge Inspection:

Active NYS or NJ Professional Engineer (PE) license, or ability to transfer between states.
Demonstrated recent experience inspecting bridges for agencies such as NYSDOT, TBTA, Port Authority (NY & NJ), NYSTA, NJDOT, or similar.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with proven ability to produce clear, concise technical reports.
Completion of NHI Bridge Safety Inspection Course or equivalent (e.g., NYSDOT Bridge Inspection Workshop).
Valid driver’s license and comfortable traveling to various inspection sites.
Physically able to perform field tasks (climbing, ladder use, lifting up to ~50 lbs, working around traffic and in varied weather).

Nice to Haves as the Team Leader, Bridge Inspection:

Track record of mentoring or managing small inspection teams.
Familiarity with transportation agencies’ inspection procedures or software.
Experience balancing office documentation with field responsibilities.

Trueline Offers:

A chance to lead in a well established, full service engineering firm with decades of experience and multiple NY offices.
Meaningful work that blends field exploration with technical reporting.
A collaborative environment and opportunities to grow as a mentor and technical leader.

Trueline and its clients are unabashed equal opportunity employers committed to a diverse workforce. We welcome smart and ambitious applicants and recruit, refer, hire, place, and promote without regard to race, color, gender, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, age, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by federal or state law.

Life at Trueline

Who are we? As an independent, full-service marketing and consulting business based in Portland, Maine, we provide strategy, content and design for businesses, nonprofits and individuals in Maine and throughout the world. What do we do? Everything we do revolves around ROI–improving your bottom line. Through a rock-solid communication and branding strategy, we show you how to support and engage your employees, build your workforce, find new clients and support existing business. Here’s a snapshot of our services: Strategy: Branding and rebranding; mission statement; search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine results page (SERP); hiring and retention; fundraising; communicating with board members; personal branding (for executives); events and PR; advertising campaigns; product launches; social media campaigns and management. Design: Websites; logos; promotional material (digital and print); event guides; employee photos; drone video footage; custom magazines; advertisements. Content: Website text; speeches and keynotes; promotional text; employee bios; custom articles; social media posts; newsletters and internal emails; corporate reports. Custom Publishing: Vanguard, Equity, Toggle, Blueprint, Vision, Terra Firma What’s our mission? We want to help you solve real challenges–like growing your business, hiring and retaining employees, fundraising and keeping existing business. Our mission is to do this with honesty and integrity. Authenticity–it’s a good look on you. Why do we do this? We want to reimagine marketing. We want it to be less about the perfect image, and more about using good communication and branding as a way to engage with your employees and clients in successful and lasting relationships. Ultimately, we believe this approach will create a world where people come before profit, where the environment is respected and given back to, and where good business is synonymous with the best intentions.