Engineer C, Austin Water

City of Austin

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Under minimal supervision with considerable latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment, this position performs highly complex engineering functions that include designing, planning, and overseeing work in support of construction, maintenance, and alteration of structures, facilities, processes, equipment, and systems.

Requirements

Graduation with a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in Engineering or in a field related to the job, plus eight (8) years of engineering experience acquired before and/or after licensing as a professional engineer.
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.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of and/or experience with the City’s Land Development Code (LDC), Austin Water’s Utilities Criteria Manual (UCM), TCEQ utility design criteria, Uniform Plumbing Code, International Fire Code, and other codes and design criteria related to land development and water, wastewater, and reclaimed water infrastructure.
Knowledge of and/or experience performing utility demand/flow calculations and infrastructure capacity analysis.
Knowledge of and/or experience with utility system design.
Experience with Project Management for design, bidding and construction of utility projects, including experience with cost estimates, budgets, schedules, construction operations, change orders, pay applications, administering contract terms, etc.
Experience using geographic information systems (GIS) mapping software, such as ArcGIS, ArcPro or similar software and hydraulic modeling software, such as InfoWater, WaterCAD, EPANET or similar software.

Responsibilities

Approves, processes, and seals plans, specifications, or construction documents by applying engineering standardization of practices and principles of highly technical and complex calculations for applied discipline within Local and State regulatory requirements.
Manages engineering projects that are technically complex, highly visible, priority projects or programs. These projects require a high 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 that may be complex and non-routine.
Assists in the preparation of preliminary and long-range plans, schedules, estimates, budgets, detailed final plans, specifications, special conditions, and agreements.
Provides technical oversight of 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 assists with preliminary contract documents, specifications, and plans.
Prepares final plans, specifications, special conditions, and agreements and coordinates and oversees work of contractors, affected public agencies, and utilities.
Writes complex 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 cost estimates or tracks expenditures by reviewing and writing contract change orders in the area of technical expertise and negotiates and recommends financial arrangements for changes to contract.
Leads, as necessary, activities of a design team in the preparation of preliminary and long-range plans, schedules, estimates, budgets, detail final construction plans, specifications, and agreements.
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 operating procedures, policies, and ordinances for various contracts or projects.
May provide analysis and recommendation of performance of various personnel assigned by contract or projects.
Is responsible for designing and maintain database systems for project or program areas.
Prepares and delivers presentations to public, City Council, or customers.