Civil Engineer IV - WWRF and Remote Facilities

About the role

This is professional and administrative civil engineering work directing a division of the Public Works department and/or overseeing a special program that has impacts across multiple divisions within the department.

Responsibilities

• Manages a division of, or special program within, the Public Works department, providing administrative and technical supervision and implementing division policies, goals, procedures, and work schedules.
• Plans, schedules, coordinates, oversees, reviews, and evaluates the work of subordinate professional and sub-professional employees, assigning projects, developing performance standards, setting goals, and providing career guidance to an assigned staff.
• Prepares annual budget proposals for the division, assessing needs for manpower, equipment, supplies and services, projecting costs, and determining expenditures.
• Administers the division budget, monitoring and controlling inventories and expenditures.
• Makes decisions and solves complex technical problems.
• Resolves issues of the highest technical nature.
• Acts as liaison with members of regulatory agencies and other governmental entities.
• Represents the city at meetings with the City Council, news media, interested groups and the public, and on committees and boards to represent division, department, and city policies and activities, answer questions, and resolve complaints.
• Testifies in court as a professional witness in cases involving the city, its policies, and projects.
• Oversees and participates in inspections of project sites with agents from other governmental entities, ensuring that drawings and specifications are complete and that the projects proceed accordingly.
• Oversees the research into new methods, materials, and equipment, evaluates the findings, and makes recommendations for change where warranted.
• Maintains regular job attendance in accordance with a schedule established for the position by the supervisor.
• Performs other related duties as assigned or as the situation dictates within the scope of this classification.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or a related engineering field.
• Four years of experience in supervising the operations of a major public works program, including supervising subordinates, budget management, making decisions and solving complex technical problems, negotiating and administering contracts, and managing complex public works programs.
• Must be registered as a Professional Engineer by the State of Nebraska by the end of the probationary period.
• Must be able to transport oneself or coordinate transportation to work sites throughout the City during the course of the work day.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of civil engineering principles and practices as applied to Public Works projects.
• Knowledge of and ability to operate a computer or other technology using standard or customized computer or systems software applications appropriate to the assigned tasks.
• Knowledge of sources of current information relative to Public Works engineering and grants in aid programs.
• Knowledge of modern methods, techniques, and engineering standards used in the study, design, construction, maintenance, and operation of Public Works projects.
• Knowledge of current and emerging theories and applications in a complex engineering specialization.
• Knowledge of the laws, codes, ordinances, and policies pertinent to the division assigned.
• Knowledge of procedures in performing technical research and writing technical reports.
• Knowledge of the principles, techniques, and applications of effective management.
• Knowledge of the laws and specifications pertaining to federal grants and other federal aid projects.
• Knowledge of the principles of budget preparation and cost control.
• Ability to learn and adapt to advances in computer and electronics device technology and software.
• Ability to adapt approved engineering methods and standards to the design, construction, and maintenance of Public Works projects.
• Ability to provide informed and accurate recommendations concerning complex engineering issues.
• Ability to preside at meetings with governmental entities, elected officials, private agencies, members of the media, and representatives of the public.
• Ability to negotiate and administer construction and service agreements with private contractors.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with fellow employees, elected officials, private contractors, and members of the general public.
• Ability to participate in inspections of construction work in progress.
• Ability to coordinate the activities of the division for efficient use of personnel, equipment, and facilities.
• Ability to supervise and evaluate the work and guide the development of subordinate staff.
• Ability to understand written or oral instructions.
• Ability to adhere to safety policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Ability to sit continuously; to reach or walk frequently; and to climb, balance, bend, stoop, squat, kneel, crouch, crawl, stand, push, pull, lift, or type occasionally. Ability to sit most of the time and use up to ten (10) pounds of force to move objects occasionally.

Skills

• Analysis of complex engineering data and laboratory test results.
• Planning, assigning, and coordinating the work of a large group of technical and other engineering personnel.
• Preparation, interpretation, and verification of complex engineering plans and specifications.
• Presiding at meetings with governmental entities, elected officials, private agencies, members of the media, and representatives of the public.
• Negotiating contracts with private contractors, architects, and consultants.
• Representing the city at meetings with the City Council, news media, interested groups and the public, and on committees and boards.
• Testifying in court as a professional witness in cases involving the city, its policies, and projects.
• Overseeing and participating in inspections of project sites with agents from other governmental entities.
• Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with fellow employees, elected officials, private contractors, and members of the general public.
• Participating in inspections of construction work in progress.
• Coordinating the activities of the division for efficient use of personnel, equipment, and facilities.
• Supervising and evaluating the work and guiding the development of subordinate staff.
• Understanding written or oral instructions.
• Adhering to safety policies, procedures and guidelines.

Benefits

• Forty-hour work week.
• Paid leave per year: twelve days vacation; five days management; fifteen days sick; and fifteen holidays.
• Employee’s group health insurance, including major medical, vision, and dental, for individual or family.
• Defined benefit pension plan, plus Social Security, and more.

Pay

$102,564.80 with step increases to $155,334.40 Annually

Schedule

Forty-hour work week.