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Job Description
Pay Range: $103,471.00 - $116,968.00 annual compensation
Job Posting Closing on: Thursday, November 7, 2024
*** Sign-On incentive $5,000 ***
Workdays & Hours: Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm with some weekends
Benefits for this position include: 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, Professional Development Opportunities, and much more.
The City of Fort Worth is one of the fastest growing large cities in the U.S. Our employees serve the needs of nearly 1,000,000 residents, promoting our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability.
A Sr. Professional Engineer - Stormwater Infrastructure Management position is available with the City of Fort Worth Transportation & Public Works Stormwater Management Division, Stormwater Infrastructure Management Section. This position performs plan reviews, and review coordination for Capital Project plans in a timely, efficient, and effective manner, and ensures that the proposed projects apply adopted stormwater design criteria, engineering best practices, and conform to floodplain regulations. The responsibilities also include providing guidance and oversight to all City departments to ensure City Project Managers and Engineers understand Stormwater and Floodplain criteria. The Sr. Professional Engineer also attends meeting with various stakeholders and manages the Stormwater standard product list for City of Fort Worth.
This Position qualifies for the following incentives which is separate from the base pay:
- Sign-On Incentive of $5,000
- Relocation Incentive of $1,500 (if relocation allowance qualifications are met)
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in Civil Engineering or a related field.
- Three (3) years of professional civil engineering experience as a registered professional engineer of which two (2) years must be within or related to the area of stormwater management,drainage and grading design, hydrologic & hydraulic analysis, or storm drain infrastructure design.
Preferred Qualifications:
- At least five (5) years of stormwater infrastructure related engineering experience, and previous experience working for a Municipality or Government Agency.
- Proficiency with industry-standard stormwater design and modelling software, as well as design guidelines for stormwater infrastructure design and floodplain regulations.
- Skilled with general trouble-shooting or analysis for stakeholders, such as: collaborating with Capital Delivery to ensure projects are appropriately designed, collaboration with Field Operations to provide solutions for drainage related service requests.
The Sr. Professional Engineer-Stormwater Infrastructure job responsibilities include:
- Performs review, and review coordination, for publicly funded Capital Project plans in a timely, efficient, and effective manner. Ensures that the proposed capital projects apply adopted stormwater design criteria, engineering best practices practice, and complies with floodplain regulations.
- Make sure that proposed stormwater systems can be maintained by field operations, and that the proposed infrastructure improvements will not create any conflicts with existing stormwater systems or exacerbate existing drainage issues.
- Provides guidance or training to other City departments and divisions, and other agencies, to ensure Project Managers, Engineers, and other stakeholders understand Stormwater and Floodplain criteria. This includes attending meetings to answer questions and clarify review comments.
- Participate in a variety of coordination and project meetings to learn about new or upcoming public and private projects, provide feedback, review requirements, process guidance, scope drainage studies, and share information on other related projects (including private development projects).
- Reviews TXDOT and County plans in a timely, efficient, and effective manner to ensure that the proposed projects will not have an adverse impact on city existing stormwater systems and others.
- Participate in meetings with various stakeholders to review the specifications, plans and other issues.
- Lead review, development, coordination, and compilation of the Stormwater standard products list; including working with manufactures who are applying for product approval, performing review and research, and coordinating with review committee members and other stakeholders.
Working Conditions
Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically require touching, talking, hearing, seeing, grasping, standing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, walking, repetitive motions, climbing and balancing.
Physical Demand
Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically exert up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly having to move objects.
Conditions of Employment
The City of Fort Worth is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is the policy and practice of the City to recruit, hire, train and promote a diverse workforce without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, or another non-merit factor.
The City of Fort Worth is committed to full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.
Candidates who do not meet the Education requirement, may be considered if they have more relevant work experience than the position requires. Those selected for employment will be required to pass Pre-Employment checks depending on the position requirements. Those could include, but are not limited to: criminal background check, drug screen, education verification, etc. criminal convictions will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Employees are paid by direct deposit only. -
ABOUT THE COMPANY
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City of Fort Worth
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The City of Cowboys & Culture is known for its Texas hospitality. The stunning and sprawling City of
Fort Worth is one of the fastest-growing cities in the U.S. And it’s no wonder — With great neighborhoods, scenic terrain and a rich history of arts and culture, paired with world-class opportunities for business and education, it’s not only fun to visit Fort Worth, it’s even more rewarding to call it home.Fort Worth truly offers all the benefits and amenities of a bustling metropolitan city, while keeping the small- town charm that keeps it unpretentious and charismatic in all the right ways. Designated as one of America’s “Most Livable Communities” by the Partners for Livable Communities, the city truly offers a melting pot of culture, commerce, community and yes, cowboys.
There are over a dozen remarkable districts full of treasured history among modern luxuries and unique places to have fun, making it the No. 1 tourist destination in Texas and welcoming more than 9.4 million visitors annually.
Being one of the fastest-growing among large cities in the country, Fort Worth has received multiple accolades, including number one downtown (Livability), and the second-best City in the nation for job seekers (Forbes). Our employees serve the needs of over 900,000 residents representing culturally diverse communities.
Exciting Growth & Future Development
One of the most fascinating aspects of the City of Fort Worth is its almost unprecedented growth over the past several years. Both in terms of population and industry, and as the 12th largest city in the United States, Fort Worth is truly booming — which presents both challenges and opportunities to truly develop this city in the right way. Every 30 minutes a new person moves to Fort Worth, so we’re looking for candidates who can embrace an evergrowing and changing environment and improve on it with solutions that work for the entire community of Fort Worth.
Mission
We are working together to build a strong community that others can look to as a pillar of unity and excellence. Through grassroots efforts within the community, and large scale construction and transportation plans that continue to add the infra- structure a growing city like Fort Worth needs, we’ll provide the public services our community requires to continually cultivate the unique city we call home.
Vision
Fort Worth’s vision is to be the most livable and best managed city in the country. We’ll do this by taking care of our citizens, implementing the highest quality standards in our schools, continually improving the neighborhoods we thrive in and the facets of the city that make our town so unique.
Benefits That Are Well Worth It
The City of Fort Worth continues to be dedicated to its employees’ well-being by providing competitive health benefits, a well-rounded wellness program and a Zero Accident Philosophy® workplace. All regular full-time employees and those employees who work 30–39 hours per week are eligible for all City of Fort Worth Benefits. Part-time employees who work 20–29 hours per week are eligible for dental, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, flexible spending accounts, 457 Deferred Compensation plan and other voluntary benefits.
Medical Program
The City offers two plan options through Meritain Health, an Aetna company.
The Health Center Plan – Offers employees and their family’s
primary health care services that are 100% completely free and unlimited. Employees can visit any one of the three City of Fort Worth Employee Health Centers and receive guaranteed same or next day appointments for sick visits. Also, services are available at any one of the five satellite locations that serves employees across the city.
The Consumer Choice Plan – Is offered to employees at no cost or low monthly premiums to cover eligible dependents and provides the financial benefits of a Health Savings Account (HSA).
• Preventative services are covered at 100% on both plans.
• Prescription Drug coverage including mail order pharmacy are also included.Vacation
Eligible for 3 weeks of vacation: After successful completion of probationary period (usually
6 months), employees may take time off for rest, relaxation, vacation, illness, religious observances, and personal business.Holidays
Available on the first day of employment, the city provides employees with paid holidays, including two personal holidays.
Wellness Program
The city’s Healthy Challenge Wellness Program rewards all full-time, benefit-eligible employees on the city’s health insurance. The Healthy Challenge Program utilizes a points system. Participants may earn points throughout the year (Jan. 1-Dec. 15) for completing specific program activities and participants can redeem points at the end of the year for a cash reward. By participating, individuals can earn $150, $200 or $250 by accumulating program points.
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