Engineering Technician I (Landfill Operations)

City of Sacramento • Sacramento, CA

7d • Onsite

About The Position

The Department of Public Works is seeking an Engineering Technician I for the Recycling and Solid Waste (RSW) Division. This position is part of a team of three Engineering Technicians that maintain the City’s closed landfills. The Engineering Technician I will primarily be responsible for various fieldwork, including the collection of lab samples, monitoring, and maintenance activities, such as pipe maintenance. This position will also work with inspectors from CalRecycle, Sacramento County, the California Water Board, the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District, and other regulatory bodies. All gas wells, monitoring probes, and condensate traps require routine manual monitoring, maintenance, and cleaning by Landfill Operations to ensure system reliability and regulatory compliance. In addition, Landfill Operations is responsible for fire prevention and vegetation management across the entire 200-acre landfill area. This includes annual mowing, winter erosion repair, and seeding—nearly all performed in-house. Also, regulatory requirements have expanded significantly. New groundwater monitoring systems, increased storm water sampling obligations, and enhanced reporting requirements all add to the workload.

Requirements

• Experience in field data collection.
• Experience in industrial equipment maintenance.
• Experience in customer service.
• Drafting terminology, methods, practices and techniques.
• Microcomputers, including word processing, spreadsheet and database software packages.
• Computer aided drafting.
• High school algebra, geometry and trigonometry.
• Prepare drawings and perform engineering drafting work by hand.
• Interpret maps, drawings and sketches.
• Understand and carry out oral and written instructions.
• Establish and maintain cooperative and effective relationships with those contacted in the course of work.
• Communicate effectively orally and in writing.
• Ability to communicate and interpret to the public existing infrastructure facilities and engineering activities.
• Read and interpret survey notes and property descriptions.
• One year of experience in related engineering drafting or surveying, and three (3) semester units in college-level mathematics.
• OR A certificate of completion from an accredited technical vocational school or community college in drafting or engineering, or a minimum of 20 semester units in college-level drafting and engineering related courses. Course work is to include a minimum of three (3) semester units in college-level mathematics.
• All education requirements must be verifiable from records of satisfactory completion of courses.

Responsibilities

• Prepare topographical plan and profile maps of property and pertinent features from survey notes and legal descriptions.
• Ink, trace and letter charts, graphs, maps, plans and other drawings.
• Prepare illustrative graphics such as charts, illustrations, graphs for reports, drawings for design manual, etc.
• Prepare drawings of various public works improvements, including right-of-way plats; check calculations used in designs and estimates.
• Measure distances to be used in the determination of locations of boundaries, easements, improvements, structures, and topographic features; maintain written record of measurements.
• Respond to public inquiries regarding engineering activities.
• Perform basic design tasks required in the drafting of plans and drawings such as horizontal and vertical layout for infrastructure facilities.
• Calculate construction quantities and cost estimates.
• Prepare easement and right-of-way descriptions from calculations and information provided.
• Verify location of utilities, easements, property lines, etc., on City engineering plans.
• Research and compile data from field verifications or office engineering records for inclusion in engineering reports and studies, or in response to public inquiry.
• Operate Ozalid blueprint, KROY and LeRoy lettering machines.
• Operate Computer Assisted Drafting software to create and modify engineering drawings, topographic maps, improvement plans and illustrative graphics.
• Assist in designing and writing computer software sub-programs using existing purchased software.
• Operate computer spreadsheet, database and word processing software to generate engineering reports.
• Prepare written reports and correspondence.
• Perform algebraic and trigonometric engineering calculations to determine distances, areas, volumes, grades, hydraulic flows, etc.
• Investigate traffic complaints and requests for traffic controls.
• Conduct traffic studies and surveys such as turning movement counts, speed and delay, and radar speed surveys.
• Recommend corrective traffic control to mitigate traffic problems.
• Maintain and update miscellaneous engineering records, files, maps, and logs.
• Issue and prepare permits such as driveway, revocable, encroachment, excavation, and street-lane closures.
• Generate engineering reports.
• Perform routine materials testing; soil, water and landfill gas testing.
• Collection of lab samples.
• Monitoring and maintenance activities, such as pipe maintenance.
• Routine manual monitoring, maintenance, and cleaning of gas wells, monitoring probes, and condensate traps.
• Fire prevention and vegetation management across the entire 200-acre landfill area.
• Annual mowing, winter erosion repair, and seeding.
• New groundwater monitoring systems, increased storm water sampling obligations, and enhanced reporting requirements.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Associate degree