Senior Associate Civil Engineer (Planning)

Position Overview

Under general supervision, this role is responsible for overseeing civil engineering condition assessments, program planning, and developing a continuous capital improvement program for a city department.

Key Responsibilities

• Plans and supervises the work of a moderately large group of subordinate engineers and drafting technicians engaged in performing condition assessments, feasibility studies, and preparing capital program priorities, budgets, and cost estimates.
• Prepares policies for carrying out work and assigns, reviews, and approves the work of subordinates.
• Instructs and advises workers on complex phases of work.
• Proposes a variety of construction, reconstruction, maintenance, and capital improvement initiatives.
• Assesses pavement conditions through ratings, intensive analyses, and both destructive and non-destructive testing methods.
• Manages a database of pavement conditions and develops maps and proposals for maintenance, repairs, improvements, construction, and reconstruction.
• Prepares special studies and reports relative to alternate solutions and estimates of materials and costs.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering.
• At least five years of experience in assessing pavement conditions and working with database tracking tools on large municipal projects, including two years in a supervisory or team leadership capacity.
• Equivalent combinations of education and experience will be evaluated on an individual basis.
• Current registration as a Professional Engineer in the State of Michigan.
• Valid State of Michigan Operator License required.
• Candidates may be subject to a Criminal Background Investigation as required by the position.