Civil Engineer

Civil Engineer Job Posting

Do you have a civil engineer registration and want to make a significant impact in your community? If so, we have an excellent opportunity for you.

We are currently accepting applications to fill one full-time Civil Engineer vacancy in Santa Barbara in the Public Works Department. This employment list may also be used for future full-time, part-time, and extra-help Civil Engineer vacancies in the Public Works Departments. Please select all of the locations, departments, and work types you are willing to accept for current and future vacancies on the job application.

THE POSITION:

The Civil Engineer is distinguished from the Civil Engineering Associate III by the former’s attainment of registration as a professional civil engineer from the State of California and from a Civil Engineering Associate II by the responsibility for performing the more complex and difficult assignments which may include supervisory responsibilities. The Civil Engineer is further distinguished from the Civil Engineer Manager or Specialist by the latter’s overall responsibility for a major engineering phase, function, or division, or for a specialty with the department.

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE will possess:

• 3+ years of progressively responsible professional civil engineering experience, along with experience in the solid waste management industry and knowledge of inspection principles, practices, techniques, and terminology
• Has or is willing to seek Qualified Industrial Storm Water Practitioner certification
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Dedication and team loyalty with good judgement
• Solution-oriented strategic problem-solving skills
• Ability to effectively manage multiple situations occurring simultaneously
• Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain sound working relationships with diverse people and multidisciplinary teams
• Experience managing/supervising at least one (1) direct report
• Ability to prepare and write clear and concise federal, state, and local regulatory reports, and keep records organized accordingly
• Strong project management skills and a proven ability to effectively plan, budget, procure, and manage projects involving the maintenance and construction of engineering systems

ABOUT THE RESOURCE RECOVERY AND WASTE MANAGEMENT DIVISION:

The mission of the Resource Recovery and Waste Management Division is to protect the public health and environment of our community by efficiently managing waste products and utilities with a focus on resource conservation. The division is comprised of a team of interdisciplinary problem-solvers who combine their scientific and engineering expertise and their imagination to find cost effective, environmentally sound and forward-looking solutions to solid waste management issues. Whether the task at hand is to design landfill liners, assess slope stability or develop landfill safety features, to seek new approaches to erosion control and sediment management, or to find more effective approaches to drainage and grading design; the Resource Recovery and Waste Management Division staff is focused on developing whole-system environmentally creative solutions that will best service the community now and in the future.

ABOUT THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT:

The Santa Barbara County Public Works Department consists of five divisions: the Laguna Sanitation District and Transportation, Resource Recovery and Waste Management, Water Resources (Flood Control, Water Agency and Project Clean Water), the County Surveyors Office, and Administration. The County's Public Works Department employees are committed to efficiently providing, operating and maintaining public works infrastructure, facilities and services to make everyday life as safe and convenient as possible for the public we serve. To learn more about us, visit https://www.countyofsb.org/193/Administration.

Examples of Duties

• Designs a variety of engineering projects (e.g. landfill gas collection and treatment systems, stormwater management systems, and water treatment systems) and supervises a staff of professional and sub-professional personnel in the planning, design, preparation of drawings, plans, specifications, contractor's bids, and estimates for various landfills and recycling and transfer stations; coordinates contract administration activities and manages consultant and construction contracts;
• Conducts environmental site assessments and evaluates, optimizes, and maintains environmental management systems to mitigate impacts to soil, surface water, and groundwater. Performs engineering analyses to support environmental permitting and regulatory compliance documents; prepares and reviews water quality, environmental monitoring, and regulatory compliance reports; and represents the department in meetings, public hearings, and negotiations with regulatory agencies;
• Coordinates the preparation of infrastructure plans; writes technical specifications and sets up bid and construction schedules for county contracts; reviews proposed plans for compliance with County engineering standards, California Environmental Quality Act findings, and permits, and represents RRWM at Board of Supervisor hearings and public meetings as assigned;
• Plans, designs, and supervises the installation and operation of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) to remotely monitor environmental management systems and solve engineering problems; plans and supervises the activities of a materials testing laboratory involved in testing and analysis of a variety of materials, and investigation and evaluation of soils, soil vapor, stormwater and wastewater reports;
• Performs difficult engineering work in cost analysis, research, or other specialized technical studies; conducts hydrologic and hydraulic analyses such as ground-water-yield studies and rainfall-runoff, open-channel and pipe flow analyses; gathers data, devises solutions, and prepares engineering and economic reports and recommendations.