ENGINEERING TECHNICIAN

Description

In Huntington Beach, we believe passionately that the key to becoming the best beach City in the world starts and ends with finding the right people to join our team. At this time, we have an outstanding career opportunity available, as we're looking for the "right person" to serve as Engineering Technician for our Public Works Department.

The ideal candidate is a detail-oriented and proactive individual with a strong technical aptitude and a solid understanding of engineering principles and procedures. Experience in reading and understanding technical drawings and reports, strong problem-solving skills, and the ability to communicate effectively with engineers, contractors, and stakeholders are essential. This candidate is highly organized and thrives in fast-paced environments, adept at using permit tracking software and maintaining accurate records, ensuring that projects are completed on time. The ideal candidate should be adaptable to project requirements, have the ability to work independently, and demonstrate initiative in troubleshooting and optimizing systems.


The Department
The Public Works Department provides outstanding customer service and is responsible for the design, construction, maintenance, and operations of public facilities and infrastructure. This requires us to respond to requests for service, coordinate efforts with local, regional, state, and federal agencies, and working with the community in all of our efforts. Public Works manages over 30% of the city's total budget, including three enterprise funds and seven designated funds, as well as the citywide capital improvement program. The five divisions in public works are committed to providing the highest quality of service to the community. These five divisions include Engineering, Utilities, Administration, Operations and Transportation.

The Position
Under general supervision, performs a variety of paraprofessional engineering office and field duties in support of professional engineering staff. This is a broad classification and incumbents may specialize in drafting/design, permit review and issuance, field inspection and surveying, and/or may serve as a generalist.

This is the journey-level class in the engineering technical support series with responsibilities spanning the entire spectrum of paraprofessional engineering functions, including independent responsibilities for projects and support programs. This class is distinguished from the Senior Engineering Technician in that the latter exercises technical and functional direction over lower-level staff and/or performs complex and specialized paraprofessional engineering functions that require additional knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience.

Examples of Essential Duties

• Prepares or assists in the preparation of and/or interprets specifications, plans, designs, drawings, estimates, and reports pertaining to the construction, maintenance, and operation of a variety of engineering, land development, utility, and other capital improvement projects, including conducting a variety of field surveys for creation of sidewalks, curbs, street striping, and utility lines, collecting all pertinent information to create useful maps and evaluating building plans for compliance with public works standards.
• Utilizes Computer-Aided Drafting software to create and modify engineering drawings, sketches, plot plans, site lay-outs, topographic maps, improvement plans, and illustrative graphics, such as charts, illustrations, graphs for reports, drawings for design manuals, and other projects.
• Prepares preliminary and final designs from field notes and data files, drawings, profiles, and cross sections; calculates areas/volumes and performs other necessary mathematical computations, including project cost estimating.
• Performs field, office, and computer-aided studies and prepares periodic and special reports based on findings from research, studies, and surveys; and makes recommendations on findings.
• Receives, tags, logs, and reviews submitted engineering plans, maps, and related documents for plan check; checks calculations used in designs and estimates; distributes plans to other departments as appropriate; tracks status of plan checks and original documents; files plans; researches, reviews, and interprets plans for developers, engineers, contractors, and the public.
• Reviews permit requests, bids, legal descriptions, plans and specifications submitted by private contracting firms for completeness and ensures conformance with established ordinance codes, standard plans, Public Works policies, criteria, standards and specifications, engineering principles, and conditions of approval; reviews and/or issues a variety of permits, including encroachment and Harbor and dock permits; performs plan check, reviews building applications for conditions that trigger Public Works requirements, conducts field review for permits, and modifies designs as necessary before issuing permits; writes permit fee letters and issues receipts.
• Assists in the design, development, and maintenance of the City’s computerized permit database system; assists with testing and modification of the system; may train or instruct other staff in the use of the database system.
• Develops applications for grant funding by preparing cost estimates and other support documentation; may assist in accounting for grant funds, prepares billing statements for the appropriate agencies.
• Receives and responds to information requests from the public, consultants, engineering firms, developers, title companies, inspectors, and staff for base maps, parcel maps and improvement plan information, encroachment permits, benchmarks, copies of maps and other geographical data, soils reports, as-builts, and street improvements; retrieves plans, reports, permits, and files as necessary to comply with requests; responds to complaints from the public and resolves conflicts between owners, contractors, developers, utility companies, and others.
• Maintains engineering files, including plans, permits, inspections, surveys, maps, studies, and other data related to engineering projects; prepares, updates, reproduces, and distributes maps, drawings, blueprints, and other information.
  
  

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Minimum Qualifications

Any combination of education, training, and experience that would likely provide the knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform in the position is qualifying. A typical combination includes:

Education: Equivalent to completion of twelfth (12th) grade supplemented by college level coursework in civil engineering, drafting, surveying, mathematics, or related field. An Associate of Science degree in an engineering-related field as outlined above is preferred.

Experience: Three (3) years of paraprofessional civil engineering.

Certifications/License: Due to performance of field duties that require operation of a motor vehicle, a valid California Class C Driver’s License and an acceptable driving record are required by time of appointment.

SPECIAL CONDITIONS/REQUIREMENTS

Employees regularly assigned/required to drive a city or personal vehicle in the course and scope of work shall be required to participate in the DMV Employer Pull Notice Program.

Public Employee Disaster Service Worker: In accordance with Government Code Section 3100, all Huntington Beach City employees are required to perform assigned disaster service worker duties in the event of an emergency or a disaster.

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APPLICATION AND SELECTION PROCEDURE

• Application Review
• Applicants who BEST meet the City's needs will be invited to participate in the assessment process, which will include an Oral Exam (weighted 100%) tentatively scheduled for November 21, 2024.
• Selection Interview
• Background Investigation
• Appointment

Supplemental Information

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The City of Huntington Beach offers a comprehensive benefit package to Huntington Beach Municipal Teamsters (formerly MEA) members, including:

The SALARY RANGE is composed of seven steps. Merit step increases are based on satisfactory performance.

PROMOTIONS within the City are based upon the merit system principles emphasizing individual ability and utilizing competitive examinations.

TWELVE PAID HOLIDAYS provided per year.

GENERAL LEAVE with pay of 176 hours is granted to regular full-time employees. After four years' service additional general leave hours are earned, up to 256 hours after fifteen years' service.

EDUCATIONAL INCENTIVE PLANS are available for eligible employees to develop their knowledge and abilities.

GROUP INSURANCE PROGRAMS are available to eligible City employees. These programs include medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, life and accidental death and dismemberment insurances.

FLEXIBLE SPENDING ACCOUNTS are available where employees use pre-tax salary to pay for regular child care, adult dependent care and/or medical expenses.

RETIREMENT BENEFITS are provided by the California Public Employee's Retirement System. Every regular employee becomes a member immediately upon employment. Effective January 1, 2013, the Public Employees' Pension Reform Act will apply to new members of CalPERS. A new member is defined as a new hire who is brought into CalPERS membership for the first time on or after 1/1/13 and has no prior membership in a California public retirement system; is not eligible for reciprocity with another California public retirement system; or is rehired by a different CalPERS employer after a break in service of greater than six (6) months. All employees hired on or after January 1, 2013 will be subject to CalPERS membership review for applicability of PEPRA. Employees enrolled in CalPERS prior to January 1, 2013 are considered classic members.

The benefit formula, final compensation period, and member contribution rate is as represented below:

Classic Miscellaneous Members:
Benefit Formula Miscellaneous 2.5% at age 55
Final Compensation Period 1-year Final Compensation
Member Contribution Rate 9.0% of Reportable Compensation

New Miscellaneous Members under PEPRA:
Benefit Formula Miscellaneous 2% at age 62
Final Compensation Period 3-year Final Compensation
Member Contribution Rate 8.25% of Reportable Compensation (eff. 7/1/23)

DEFERRED COMPENSATION: Two voluntary deferred compensation 457 plans are available.

CREDIT UNION membership is available to all City employees and provides access to low interest loans.

FLEXIBLE WORK SCHEDULES: Employees will have the option of working a 5/40 or 9/80 work schedule with Supervisor and Department Head approval. Employees assigned to the Police Department shall retain the option of working the 4/10 work schedule with Supervisor and Department Head approval. In order to maintain service to the public, departmental effectiveness, productivity and/or efficiency, a Department Head may assign an employee a different work schedule that is in compliance with the requirements of FLSA with City Manager approval.

An Agency Shop Agreement exists between the City of Huntington Beach and the Huntington Beach Municipal Teamsters (HBMT). As a result, employees in classifications represented by the HBMT are required, no later than 30 days after commencing employment, to either opt out or become a dues paying HBMT member. All dues are collected via payroll deduction and distributed directly to HBMT for processing.

NOTE: The provisions of this bulletin do not constitute a contract expressed or implied, and any provisions contained herein may be modified or revoked without notice.

For a more detailed overview of the benefits, review the Memorandum of Understanding and Side Letters at: MEMORANDA OF UNDERSTANDINGS Click on the links under "Huntington Beach Municipal Teamsters" or "Municipal Employees' Association".

Closing Date/Time: 11/5/2024 5:00 PM Pacific

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