Position / Title: Engineer B or C
Date Posted: March 31, 2025
Company / Agency: City of Austin - Capital Delivery Services
Location: 505 Barton Springs Road, Austin, TX 78704
Desired Skills: Minimum Qualifications: Education and/or Equivalent Experience:
Graduation with a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in a field related to engineering, plus six (6) years of experience in engineering acquired before and/or after licensing as a professional engineer.
Licenses and Certifications Required:
Licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.) in the State of Texas; or if currently licensed in another state, must have the ability to obtain a Texas P.E. license within six (6) months of employment.
Preferred Qualifications:
-Experience designing civil engineering design projects in roadways, urban trails/sidewalks, water/wastewater, and/or stormwater/drainage, etc.
-Experience preparing engineering budget and contruction cost estimates, preliminary engineering reports, technical specifications, and contract and bid documents.
-Experience directing and coordinating with other professionals such as sub-consultants, surveyors or other stakeholders in a design team environment.
-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.
-Ability to travel to multiple work locations.
Job Description: Position Overview:
The Capital Delivery Services Department Engineering Services Division serves as an in-house engineering consulting team providing hands-on design of city capital improvement projects (CIP) that includes street reconstruction and roadway design, sidewalks/ADA projects, urban trails, water/wastewater/reclaimed water renewal and drainage/stormwater improvement projects. This position designs, signs and seals design and construction documents and serves as the engineer of record for CIP projects in accordance with the Texas Engineering Practices Act.
Duties, Functions and Responsibilities:
-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 online at: https://www.austincityjobs.org/hr/postings/124238
