Hydraulic Engineer

About the role

Manage staff and information to ensure the City's public water and sewer utilities and private utility services are designed appropriately to serve customer needs. Evaluate existing water and sewer utilities and records, and provide guidance. Act as a working engineer on Hydraulic System Models, Plan Reviews, and Asset Management of Systems and Facilities.

Responsibilities

• Communicate information regarding City utilities and services to City staff, engineers, consultants, developers, contractors, and customers to ensure adherence to standards and codes.
• Perform and coordinate the review of public utility extensions or improvements to water, sanitary sewer, or storm sewer systems. Provide guidance to staff regarding private connection issues.
• Assist with troubleshooting a variety of problems and issues.
• Direct, schedule, manage, oversee, and evaluate project engineers and engineering assistants.
• Participate in Rate Study data gathering, calculations, and reporting.
• Evaluate and provide recommendations and guidance on capital improvement projects.
• Participate in asset management and evaluation of condition and capacity of water and sewer utilities. Assist the Assistant Manager for Utility Engineering and Asset Planning in prioritizing projects for capital replacement.
• Review and evaluate utility records.
• Assist the Assistant Manager for Utility Engineering and Asset Planning to ensure records are properly recorded in the various databases, ensure accessibility to data, and resolve issues in historical data.
• Perform related work as required.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil or related Engineering field.
• Five (5) years of experience in professional engineering related to water or wastewater systems or closely related work, including supervisory experience.
• Professional Engineering (P.E.) license.

Any equivalent combination of training, education, or experience that provides the required skills, knowledge, and abilities may be considered.

Preferred Qualifications

• State of Michigan EGLE S-2 Drinking Water Operator License.
• Wastewater Treatment Operator Class B license.