Position / Title: City of Austin, Capital Delivery Services, Engineer B or C
Date Posted: January 09, 2025
Company / Agency: City of Austin - Capital Delivery Services
Location: 505 Barton Springs Road, Austin, TX 78704
Desired Skills: Experience designing civil engineering design projects in roadways, urban trails/sidewalks, water/wastewater, and/or stormwater/drainage, etc. Experience preparing engineering budget and construction cost estimates, preliminary engineering reports, technical specifications, and contract and bid documents. Experience permitting civil engineering projects through Federal, State and Local governmental entities. Experience in civil engineering drafting with Computer Aided Design Drafting (CADD) software and ability to adapt to workflow processes. Experience directing and coordinating with other professionals such as sub-consultants, surveyors or other stakeholders in a design team environment.
Job Description: * Approves, processes, and seals plans, specifications, construction documents by applying engineering standardization of practices and principles of complex calculations for applied discipline within Local and State regulatory requirements.
*Manages engineering that are routine, non-priority projects or programs. These projects require a level of technical proficiency as well as coordinative and administrative responsibility.
*Identifies, evaluates, and provides improvement recommendations with preliminary and final designs and design criteria for assigned program or projects. Assists in the preparation of preliminary and long-range plans, schedules, estimates, budgets, detailed final plans, specifications, special conditions, and agreements. Provides technical assistance with project progress from design through completion.
*Develops cost estimates, tracks expenditures, and prepares cost estimates and engineering and feasibility reports and studies for projects. Prepares and/or assists with preliminary contract documents, specifications, and plans. Prepares final plans for review of specifications, special conditions, and agreements and coordinates and oversees technical work of contractors, affected public agencies, and utilities. Writes technical specifications for construction contracts.
*Reviews plans and approves permits by applying complex engineering standardization of practices and principles for applied discipline within Local and State regulatory requirements.
*Inspects and monitors projects for legal compliance by reviewing work completed by contractors and ensuring compliance to specifications by completing complex calculations that are used to further provide analysis of preliminary results of a project.
*Develops, negotiates, and monitors contracts by reviewing and writing contract change orders in the area of technical expertise and may negotiate and recommend financial arrangements for changes to contact.
*Conducts field inspections of work done by contractors to ensure compliance with plans and specifications. Drafts and recommends approval of contract change orders.
*Researches and performs statistical analysis for validation of reports and publication of results in various communication formats.
*Develops standard policies and ordinances for various contracts and/or projects and operating procedures. May provide analysis and recommendation of performance of various personnel assigned by contract or projects.
Salary: $42.26 - $58.78
Contact Information: Apply here: https://www.austincityjobs.org/postings/122729
