ENGINEERING TECHNICIAN III (PUBLIC WORKS) - City of Torrance
Torrance, CA
About the Job
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The City of Torrance is recruiting for an Engineering Technician III to be part of the Public Works Department's Engineering Division Team!
The DepartmentThe Public Works Department is a dynamic organization that readily adapts to the needs of the Torrance Community in providing quality and reliable service to the public. The Department is made up of over 200 employees within five distinct divisions who provide service to residents, businesses, and other City departments to improve and maintain the City's streets, sidewalks, landscaping, traffic signals, sewers, waste collection, and water systems.
The Division
The Engineering Division is responsible for the development and implementation of several and various infrastructure projects included in the City's multi-year Capital Improvement Program (CIP). The Division's duties include: planning and budgeting for new projects; securing outside (i.e. federal, state, grant) funding; engineering design, administration of public bidding; and construction management of each project. The Division also provides traffic engineering services for the City including traffic studies, traffic signal system management, responding to citizen traffic requests and making traffic striping and signage improvements citywide in compliance with state standards.
The Position
The Engineering Technician III is the advanced journey level class in the technical engineering series. The incumbent is distinguished from the Engineering Technician II in that the Technician III has responsibility for personnel and project coordination and greater authority over assignments and decisions required to complete the work. Incumbents possess a significant level of technical expertise beyond that expected at the journey level. Work is judged primarily on overall results. Work may require the development of recommendations consistent with directives, policies and regulations.
The following duties represent the principal job duties; however, they are not all-inclusive.
- Prepares drawings, maps, construction plans, estimates, specifications for public works projects and easements, legal descriptions and other property-related documents.
- Performs routine engineering design work.
- Creates documents and reports using various computer applications.
- Assists the public by responding to questions or explaining City policies and procedures related to municipal engineering.
- Ensures that applicable public works code requirements are met.
- Maintains departmental records such as maps, plans, drawings and databases.
- Assigns, reviews and coordinates the work of subordinate technical engineering personnel; assists in training lower-level employees.
- Keep abreast of current engineering principles and practices, technology and regulations that apply to City engineering projects.
- Participates as a member on interdepartmental and intradepartmental teams and committees as required.
- Provides staff training and technical support in the use of engineering computer applications.
- Uses computer applications in the preparation of engineering drawings, maps and construction plans.
Examples of Other Duties
The following duties represent duties that are generally performed by this position, but are not considered to be principal job duties:
-Attends division and department meetings as required;
-Reviews plan checks of improvement and subdivision plans;
-Perform related duties as required.
Job Type: Permanent Full-time
Agency: Public Works
Location: Torrance
Source : City of Torrance