Wastewater Facility Senior Engineer – Environmental Services Department

About the role

The City of San José is seeking a Wastewater Facility Senior Engineer to join the Capital Improvement Program (CIP) division. This position is a management classification reporting to a Wastewater Facility Principal Engineer.

Responsibilities

• Prepare consultant procurement documents (RFQs/RFPs)
• Conduct contract negotiations and administration
• Direct the preparation and approval of project deliverables prepared by Consultants
• Prepare and negotiate level of efforts for service orders
• Review invoices
• Prepare Council memos and presentations for contract award
• Perform specialty engineering design (protective relaying, motor, and generator controls)
• Review and permit of electrical building systems
• Review complex professional plans and calculations
• Ensure compliance with building codes, best design and maintenance practices, and other ordinances and regulations
• Support urgent, unscheduled miscellaneous process and infrastructure improvements

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil, Mechanical, Chemical, or related engineering discipline AND five (5) years of progressively responsible professional engineering experience in the wastewater treatment industry
• Master’s Degree in Environmental Engineering or other related disciplines can be substituted for one year of professional engineering experience
• Possession of a Certificate of Registration from the State of California in a Civil/ Electrical/Mechanical/Chemical professional engineering discipline
• Possession of a valid State of California driver’s license

Qualifications

• Job Expertise: Knowledge of and experience with applicable professional/technical principles and practices, Citywide and departmental procedures/policies, and federal and state rules and regulations
• Communication Skills: Effectively conveys information and expresses thoughts and facts clearly, orally and in writing; demonstrates effective use of listening skills; displays openness to other people's ideas and thoughts, prepares technical reports and council memorandums
• Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA) certification is desirable

Additional Competencies and/or Desirable Qualifications

• A master’s degree is highly desirable
• A degree in Civil, Chemical, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering with experience in the wastewater and/or water field is highly desirable