ENGINEERING TECHNICIAN 3

About the role

This position is located in Winnemucca. It is a field level construction position that performs required inspections, testing, surveying, and verifies contractor's quantities of work to ensure prompt payment. The incumbent also provides training and guidance to less experienced Tech I & II's on the crew.

Responsibilities

• Assist engineers in performing field and laboratory tests and setting up equipment.
• Gather and compile data, analyze technical problems, conduct research, and ensure accuracy and conformance to policies, procedures, guidelines, and standards.
• Provide training and guidance to less experienced Tech I & II's on the crew.
• Perform technical research to ensure department programs, testing methods, policies, and procedures comply with federal and state requirements.
• Maintain records and contract documents in accordance with established filing systems.
• Perform field inspections of construction projects, well locations, and water use, material equipment, property lines, and boundaries, right-of-way mapping, and safety barriers.
• Conduct surveying work including staking alignments, structures, fence lines, and cross sections to set control points, locate wells, and establish right-of-way lines, government survey, and property boundaries.
• Perform material and soil testing in a laboratory setting involving a variety of design and quality control testing including acceptance testing, design mix, proficiency, and advance testing.
• Research material properties, new or proposed specifications and test procedures.
• Maintain and calibrate equipment to ensure proper operation, accuracy, and reliability of test results and data collection.
• Research city, county, and federal records to determine property ownership, boundaries, encumbrances, and condition of title.
• Perform calculations establishing government survey and property boundaries, right-of-way lines, slopes, and contours, horizontal and vertical alignments, traverses, construction limits, and material quantities.
• Perform related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Associate's degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in engineering, physics, math or closely related field and one year of experience in a specialized engineering function or program area which involved the application of work procedures, standards and controls.
• Graduation from high school or equivalent education and two years of experience as described above.
• One year of experience as an Engineering Technician II in Nevada State service.
• An equivalent combination of education and experience as described above.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of engineering maps and records; principles and practices of surveying; engineering drafting methods, conventional symbols and sources of information; materials, methods and techniques used in construction and inspection; testing and sampling procedures.
• Ability to operate and manipulate civil engineering software; conduct tests and inspections of products, services or processes to evaluate quality or performance; perform all relevant certified testing procedures; read and comprehend legal and/or technical documents; read and understand references, guidelines and procedures related to technical documents; read and understand references, guidelines and procedures related to technical engineering work; understand and apply instructions from technical manuals to specific situations; organize material in a systematic way to optimize efficiency; determine and use correct mathematical procedures to accomplish job assignments; work independently with minimal supervision; research and locate technical information from various records and resources, public records and websites; operate, maintain and calibrate equipment and instruments applicable to the assignment; and all other knowledge, skills, and abilities required at the lower levels.

Skills

• Operate and manipulate civil engineering software.
• Conduct tests and inspections of products, services or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
• Read and comprehend legal and/or technical documents.
• Read and understand references, guidelines and procedures related to technical documents.
• Read and understand references, guidelines and procedures related to technical engineering work.
• Understand and apply instructions from technical manuals to specific situations.
• Organize material in a systematic way to optimize efficiency.
• Determine and use correct mathematical procedures to accomplish job assignments.
• Work independently with minimal supervision.
• Research and locate technical information from various records and resources, public records and websites.
• Operate, maintain and calibrate equipment and instruments applicable to the assignment.

Benefits

• Health Insurance: Medical, dental, life, and disability insurance programs for employees and their dependents/family are offered through the Public Employees’ Benefits Program (PEBP).
• Vacation: Accrual of three weeks of annual leave each year.
• Sick Leave: Accrual of three weeks of sick leave each year.
• Holidays: 12 paid holidays per year.
• Retirement: Participation in the Nevada Public Employees Retirement System (PERS).
• Deferred Compensation: The State offers a voluntary Deferred Compensation Program.
• No Nevada state income tax.
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness: Eligible due to public sector employment.
• Longevity Payments Eligibility: Employees who have received a performance rating of “standard” or better and have completed eight (8) or more years of continuous service are eligible for longevity pay.