Principal Engineering Technician (Finance)
The Riverside County Transportation Department is seeking a Principal Engineering Technician to join the Transportation Planning Division in Riverside.
The Principal Engineering will coordinate with civil engineering related infrastructure to review and comment on the most difficult and complex landscape, irrigation, drainage, street, and streetlight improvement plans while ensuring compliance with applicable codes, regulations, and ordinances. This role involves supervising, coordinating, and reviewing the work of subordinate staff, landscape architects, landscape contractors, electrical contractors, and tree trimming contractors.
Competitive candidates will have landscape/irrigation design and construction experience k nowledgeable in Bluebeam, PLUS, and Microsoft Suite. Candidates experienced interpreting landscape and irrigation plans for regulatory compliance with landscape architects and landscape contractors with contractors are highly preferred.
Meet the Team!
The Transportation Department is responsible for planning, designing, funding, building, operating and maintaining all roads, bridges, and transportation facilities within the unincorporated County territory.
Click here to learn more about the benefits of working for the County of Riverside!• Supervise, direct, coordinate and review work of landscape architect, landscape maintenance, electrical, tree trimming contractors.
• Supervise, direct and review subordinate staff's work with Special Assessment Districts and field inspection
• Consult with project coordinators or requesting agencies to define project scope, priorities and deadlines.
• Perform the review of the most difficult and complex landscape or irrigation plans and ensures compliance with appropriate codes, regulations, and ordinances.
• Select and adapt plans, techniques, designs, or layouts for projects; develop cost estimates and scheduling for various projects; monitor quality and progress.
• Serve as liaison with project applicants and their consultants to explain system, resolve problems and define needs.
• Analyze technical engineering data and prepares reports and recommendations.
• Review, interpret codes and regulations information submitted by outside agencies for accuracy and compliance with County standards.
• Participate in the selection and training of subordinate staff, consultants/contractors; evaluate the work of staff, consultants/contractors and resolve problems or recommend corrective disciplinary actions; assign work to subordinate staff based upon technical qualifications. OPTION IExperience: Five years of increasingly technical and responsible sub-professional engineering or land surveying experience, including at least one year at a level comparable to Senior Engineering Technician with Riverside County. (College level courses in civil engineering or closely related subjects such as surveying, soils mechanics, photogrammetry, mathematics, landscape architecture or hydrology may substitute for up to three years of the non-specialized required experience on the basis of 12 semester or 18 quarter units equaling one year of experience.)
OPTION II
Education: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree in surveying engineering, civil engineering, or a closely related field to the assignment.
Experience: One year as a Senior Engineering Technician or equivalent.
OPTION III
Certificate: Valid certificate of registration as an Engineer-in-Training or Land Surveyor-in-Training issued by the California State Board of Registration for Professional engineers and three years of sub-professional engineering experience.
ALL OPTIONS
Knowledge of: Civil engineering plans, maps and specifications; survey principles, problems, techniques, and practices; engineering mathematics of above average difficulty; the elements of civil engineering design; construction terminology, methods and practices; computer aided design and drafting as applied to civil engineering work; technical report writing; the principles of personnel supervision and employee training.
Ability to: Examine, analyze and process engineering data; perform survey field work; compile complex written technical reports involving mathematical computations; establish and maintain cooperative relationships with representatives of departments and agencies; represent the department at meetings with other departments, agencies or the public; plan, organize; and supervise the work of subordinate personnel.This recruitment is open to all applicants.
Current Riverside County employees with the Transportation Department may have priority consideration depending on the number of applications.
Recruiter Contact:
For questions regarding this posting contact Angela Tavaglione at atavaglione@rivco.org or at (951) 966-3590.
