Engineer, Senior

The City of Richmond Department of Public Works is seeking highly qualified candidates to fill the position of Engineer, Senior with the Capital Projects Division. This position will be responsible for managing and administering multi-faceted and complex federal-, state-, and locally funded transportation projects to include the design and construction of major streetscape, roadway, traffic, drainage, and bridge projects.

Qualifications, skills, and all relevant experience needed for this role can be found in the full description below.

Responsibilities :

• Managing projects and related activities through the project lifecycle including coordinating human and material resources, securing permits, recommending, or approving materials, schedules, applications, pay estimates, and contract awards, developing budgets and budgeting proposals, providing quality control, and ensuring compliance with applicable rules and regulations.
• Preparing, coordinating, reviewing, and monitoring preparation of project designs, plans, drawings, specifications, engineering studies, estimates, spreadsheets, and other materials. Collecting, gathering, interpreting, and analyzing engineering data for projects.
• Conducting engineering investigations / studies. Performing inspections to ensure compliance with project specifications, applicable codes, and other regulations.
• Evaluating detailed plans, specifications, and standards for projects; identifying potential conflicts with plans and making necessary field adjustments upon investigation or inspection.
• Maintaining logs / records, and permits; tracking systems and specialized databases, and entering data. Reviewing, preparing, and maintaining project status / technical reports, permit applications, inspections, and other documents.
• Meeting with project coordinators, consulting engineers, City representatives and contractors. Coordinating the ordinance and resolution review process; drafting and processing engineering documents, resolutions, and ordinances.

This position is considered Essential, which means that the incumbent is required to work when the City is closed due to public emergencies, critical or hazardous conditions, or inclement weather.

This individual may be required to work nights, weekends, holidays, or on-call, as needed.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities :

General knowledge of surveying principles; construction practices; site, roadway, and utility design standards; civil engineering; and Energov. Skills in computer proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite; reading and interpreting GIS maps and AutoCAD plans; technical writing; and oral and written communication. Ability to assemble complex information for others and work with a variety of individuals such as other employees, vendors, contractors, and citizens.

Minimum Training and Experience :

Licensing, Certifications, and / or Other Special Requirements :

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job. Prospective and current employees are invited to discuss accommodations.

Environmental Hazards :

Working conditions may include exposure to travel to other locations within the City of Richmond as well as outside of the City of Richmond; exposure to hazardous physical conditions such as mechanical parts, electrical currents, vibrations, etc.; atmospheric conditions such as fumes, odors, dusts, gases, and poor ventilation; inadequate lighting; intense noise; and environmental hazards such as disruptive people, imminent danger, and a threatening environment.

Physical Requirements and Working Environment :

Due to the nature of work assignments, incumbents must be able to perform detailed work on multiple, concurrent tasks, with frequent interruptions and under time constraint. While performing the essential duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to finger (pick, pinch, type or otherwise work primarily with fingers), talk, see, hear and use substantial repetitive motions of the wrists, hands, and fingers. The employee is occasionally required to reach extending hands and arms in any direction, stand, walk, pull, lift, and grasp applying pressure to an object with the fingers or palm. In terms of the physical strength to perform the essential duties, this classification is considered to be sedentary, exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, and a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to move objects.

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