Principal Engineer (Bridges)
About the role
The Department of Environmental Services (DES) is seeking a skilled Principal Engineer (Bridges) to join our Engineering Bureau - a 60-member team delivering full-scale surveying, design, and construction management services for a wide range of public works capital improvement projects. These projects include multimodal transportation, bridge replacements, stormwater, watermain, sanitary sewer, and other infrastructure work. The projects are complex, with competing interests in a constrained urban environment and range from $100,000 to $20 million in construction costs with a portfolio of approximately 75 to 100 projects in various stages of design at any given time. The Bureau also utilizes consulting services as additional resources to enhance project capacity.
Responsibilities
- Asset management of the County’s 35+ bridges, including oversight of bridge safety inspections, as well as maintenance and repairs.
- Responsible for bridge capital projects such as major bridge rehabilitations and replacements.
- Procuring and overseeing the work of consultants and contractors for bridge program work.
- Managing other transportation-related projects including the procurement of consultants, completion and review of design plans, submissions to regulatory agencies, management of schedules and budgets, procurement of construction contractors, and construction administration services.