Engineering Specialist

City of El Paso•Various Locations within the City of El Paso, TX

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Under direction, assists with various projects that may impact various citywide divisions, departments, stakeholders, or residents throughout the projects’ implementation and lifecycle. This role involves assisting with project planning, coordination, inspection, communication, and execution. The specialist will monitor and control project schedules, budgets, and scope, and develop documents for project requirements. Responsibilities include conducting research, coordinating project activities, engaging in quality assurance and risk management, and maintaining the quality of project documents and data. The role also involves developing tools and refining processes to enhance project efficiency, providing technical advice, participating in public meetings, and reviewing or preparing design plans for various construction and infrastructure projects. Additionally, the position requires coordinating site inspection and surveying projects, performing inspections to verify data and compliance, monitoring work progress, preparing completion certificates, issuing and tracking equipment, and performing special investigations such as researching property line questions. The role also supports public works and capital improvement projects, manages assessment records, and ensures construction documents are complete. A key aspect of this role includes supervising assigned staff, which involves scheduling, instructing, guiding, checking work, appraising performance, providing training, enforcing rules, counseling, motivating, maintaining harmony, interviewing applicants, and recommending personnel actions. Safety rules and regulations must also be enforced.

Requirements

Associate's Degree or higher in Engineering, Drafting Technology, Project Management, Construction Management, or a related field, plus six (6) years of increasingly responsible para-professional engineering, construction, or engineering project management experience; OR 60 college credit hours in Engineering, Drafting Technology, Project Management, Construction Management, or a related field plus six (6) years of increasingly responsible para-professional engineering, construction, or engineering project management experience.
Valid Texas Class "C" Driver's License or equivalent from another state by the time of appointment.

Responsibilities

Assist with project planning, coordination, inspection, communication, and execution.
Monitor and control start-up project schedule, budget, and scope.
Understand a project’s scope and create documents for project requirements.
Conduct, compile, and summarize research, and provide oral and written reports related to project implementation.
Coordinate the schedule of activities related to the project.
Engage in both quality assurance and risk management activities to ensure project deliverables are met.
Maintain the quality of all project documents and data to ensure the integrity of a project.
Assist with developing additional tools and refine processes to help all projects run effectively.
Provide technical advice and assistance to City management, field personnel, contractors, etc.
Participate in public meetings.
Review or prepare design plans in support of construction, site development, streets, drainage, water or sewer line, or storm drain, and vertical construction engineering projects as related to capital improvement projects according to specifications and in compliance with pertinent codes and ordinances.
Check for adherence to technical procedures and engineering instructions.
Verify survey measurements, and existing facility, utility, and structure data.
Recommend alternatives regarding technical aspects of plans to meet planning, design, and cost problems encountered.
Analyze plans for compliance with applicable ordinances, regulations, and specifications.
Assist technicians in overcoming drafting and computational difficulties encountered, gathering inspection data, and resolving disputes.
Coordinate site inspection and surveying projects.
Perform inspections of project construction to verify data and compliance with contract specifications.
Measure, observe, and discuss the progress of work and related problems with colleagues, superintendents, and general contractor personnel.
Ensuring compliance with professional and technical standards.
Monitor work progress and verify that work conforms to the contract.
Prepare completion certificate.
Issue and track equipment.
Perform special investigations.
Research controversial property line questions.
Gather statistical and engineering data, and review sources such as records, files, and drawings.
Confer with interested department personnel and other agencies.
Develop alternatives and recommend technical corrective actions.
Assist with public works and capital improvement projects and property assessment records management.
Ensure preparation of construction documents includes design data such as drawings, specifications, grading requirements, and legal descriptions of land for the City to acquire rights of way.
Track project status.
Conduct final reviews of contractor project bid proposals.
Make final checks on pay estimates and contractor invoices.
Direct information retrieval.
Supervise assigned staff.
Schedule assign, instruct in, guide and check work.
Appraise employee performance and review evaluations by subordinates.
Provide for training and development; enforce personnel rules and regulations, and work behavior standards firmly and impartially.
Counsel, motivate, and maintain harmony.
Interview applicants.
Recommend hiring, termination, transfers, discipline, or other employee status changes.
Enforce safety rules and regulations.