Position Title: Engineer/Community Development
Department: Community Development
Division: BUILDING & SITE DEVELOPMENT
FLSA Status: Exempt
Union Code/Affiliation: Unrepresented
Starting Salary: $34.10/hr - $41.95/hr; Commensurate with Training/Experience
Job Code: 05113
Application Deadline: 05/08/2024
Number of Positions Available: 1
Hours:
Special Instructions to Applicants: This position requires a Professional Engineer license. If the candidate does not have a P.E., consideration may be given to hiring the candidate as an Engineering Specialist ($30.72 to $37.79/hour)
NOTE: This position is open until filled with a preferred application date of Wednesday, May 8, 2024.
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.
- Regular attendance is a necessary and essential function.
- Ensures projects follow the public process and comply with City ordinances.
- Participates in public meetings, concept reviews, and communicates with customers.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Education and Experience (An equivalent combination of education, training & experience will be considered):
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s 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.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
Knowledge of:
- Principles, practices, and methods of civil engineering and construction, including such specialties as land surveying and mapping, hydraulics, structures, geotechnical, 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.
- Regularly use a computer, software, phone and related office equipment.
Supervision Exercised:
- No supervisory authority. Work does require providing guidance and training to others.
Individuals needing accommodation to apply may call 573.874.CITY (2489)
TTY: 711 (MO RELAY)
THE CITY OF COLUMBIA IS A MERIT, AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER: MALE / FEMALE
THE CITY OF COLUMBIA REQUIRES PRE-EMPLOYMENT DRUG TESTING
The City of Columbia participates in the federal E-Verify work authorization program
