Special Instructions to Applicants:

Applicants without a professional engineer license may be considered for an Engineering Specialist position with an hourly pay rate of $30.72 - $34.26.

Job Description

(This job description/posting in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position.)

The purpose of this job is to provide professional engineering design, maintenance, and technical support. Ensures proper function, adequate capacity, and regulatory compliance.

Essential Functions:

• Prepares, modifies, reviews, and/or submits engineering and construction designs, plans, reports, estimates, and specifications.

• Collects and maintains data for engineering projects and departments. Analyzes and validates data.

• Manages capital improvement projects from identification, prioritization, and design through construction and final acceptance.

• Calculates and prepares cost estimates for construction projects, technical specifications, and written reports.

• Conducts technical reviews on engineering and construction proposals, reports, plans, and calculations

• Ensures plans, specifications, estimates, and reports comply with local, state, and federal requirements and regulations.

• Ensures projects follow the public process and comply with City ordinances.

• Participates in public meetings, concept reviews, and communicates with customers.

• Regular attendance is a necessary and essential function.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience(

An equivalent combination of education, training and experience will be considered):

Education and Experience

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering or related field appropriate to the job responsibility.

• 3 to 5 years experience in engineering, construction, or related field

Licenses or Certifications

• Professional Engineer (P.E.) license.

• Valid drivers license.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Knowledge of:

• Principles, practices, and methods of engineering and construction, including such specialties as land surveying and mapping, hydraulics, structures, geotechnical, electric transmission and distribution, water distribution, transportation and/or sanitary sewer.

• Standard practices, methods, materials, tools, and equipment of construction and building trades.

• Business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, and/or production methods.

• Engineering design software and computer drafting.

• Maps, deeds, plats and plans.

• Planning and Zoning regulations.

Skill in:

• Estimating time and materials needed to complete jobs.

• Communicating verbally and in writing to meet the needs of the audience.

• Collecting, organizing, and analyzing complex and/or technical data.

Ability to:

• Work from blueprints, plans, and sketches.

• Prepare accurate plans, computations, drawings, specifications, cost estimates and engineering reports.

• Recognize, analyze, and solve a variety of problems.

• Compile, organize, interpret, and communicate data and results concisely.

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