General Engineering Tech I

Essential Duties

• Conducts tests of highway construction materials, makes calculations, and records results.
• Identifies, analyzes, and implements solutions for complex maintenance problems.
• Inspects barricades to ensure compliance with barricade standards.
• Inspects construction and routine and non-routine contract maintenance methods and workmanship to ensure contractors build and maintain roadways, bridges, traffic signals and related highway structures in accordance with plans and specifications.
• Inspects traffic control devices and their placement at construction project sites for compliance with specifications for devices, safety laws, rules, regulations and the Texas Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
• Serves as project leader responsible for maintenance construction inspection activities for a medium to large maintenance construction project or for several small projects.
• Performs detail design and quantity checks for plans, specifications, and estimate (PS&E).

Minimum Qualifications

• Education: High School Grad or Equivalent in general high school studies.
• Experience: 4 years in transportation engineering support, roadway maintenance, construction inspection, or related work experience.
• Licenses and Certifications: Valid driver’s license. This position requires driving a state vehicles. Must have a Commercial Class "A" Driver's License with an "N" Endorsement or have obtained a CDL "A” License, within 120 calendar days from date of employment.

Competencies

• Extensive knowledge of The Texas Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices
• Maintenance concepts, methods, policies and requirements
• Basic traffic management and control procedures
• Applicable industry safety standards, guidelines, and specification codes
• Planning, coordinating and handling multiple projects within area of responsibility to meet short and long-term deadlines
• Preparing and maintaining confidential and sensitive records, files, and reports
• Using computers, applicable programs, applications, and systems
• Maintaining a safe and effective working relationship with others
• Monitoring contracts and procedures

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions

• Subject to environmental conditions; protection from weather but not temperature changes
• Subject to outside environmental conditions; no effective weather protection
• Subject to inside and outside environmental conditions
• Subject to extreme cold and heat; below 32 and/or above 100 degrees for more than one hour
• Subject to noise
• Subject to vibration
• Works frequently in small/crawl spaces; manholes; areas that can cause claustrophobia
• Works in narrow aisles or passageways
• Climbing - ascending/descending ladders, stairs, scaffoldings, ramps, etc.
• Balancing - walking, standing, crouching on various surfaces without falling
• Crouching - bending body downward and forward by bending leg(s) and spine
• Crawling - moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet
• Reaching - extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction
• Standing - prolonged periods of time
• Walking - moving on foot to accomplish tasks: long distance/from one work site to another
• Pushing - using upper extremities to press against object with force to move in a direction
• Pulling - using upper extremities to exert force moving objects in a sustained motion
• Lifting - raising objects from lower to higher position/horizontally to a different position
• Fingering - picking, pinching, typing; working primarily with fingers rather than whole hand
• Grasping - applying pressure to an object with fingers and palm
• Feeling - determining size, shape, temperature or texture of objects
• Talking - expressing or exchanging ideas by spoken words
• Hearing - perceive sound at normal speaking levels; receive information by oral communication
• Repetitive Motion - substantial movements of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers
• Close Visual Acuity - work includes data/figures; view a computer screen; extensive reading
• Close Visual Acuity - work includes visual inspection of small defects/parts
• Close Visual Acuity - using measurement devices; and/or assembly or fabrication parts
• Visual Acuity - operate machines, such as drill presses, power saws, and mills
• Visual Acuity - operate motor vehicles and/or heavy equipment