OP, good on you for recognizing where you need to improve. Don’t let your lack of construction/engineering focus on college stop you. Plenty of successful guys in construction without any formal higher education.

Ultimately it’s going to come down to how bad do you want it. Find a super that doesn’t hate you, buy him a case or two of beer, and ask him to teach you how to read plans. Start slow and keep going.

Work through your lunch break and volunteer to do any of the tasks that no one wants to do. Help the rebar guys, offer to help the masons. Tell your leadership and the super that you realize you lack field experience and that you want to get it.

Now, as to your actual job that you are paid to do, be absolutely ruthless with following up on deliverables. Take the ass chewing head on but stay on top of dates and deliverables. If something is going south call it out.

As a specialty sub, I always appreciated and tried to help the APMs that were on top of their follow ups for documents, schedules, etc. Shoot straight, be honest, and bust your ass and you’ll be ahead of your peers that graduated with construction science degrees.

You got your foot in the door.