Project Engineer
Summary
Reporting to the Infrastructure Services Manager, the Project Engineer is a professional engineer who works independently and is responsible for varied municipal engineering assignments.
Duties
- Carries out responsible and varied municipal engineering assignments that require general familiarity with a broad field of engineering and knowledge of reciprocal effects of the work upon other fields.
- Problems are solved by the use of a combination of standard procedures, mediation of standard procedures or methods developed in previous assignments.
- Participates in and leads planning activities to achieve prescribed objectives.
- Completes independent design, studies, analyses, interpretations and conclusions.
- Completed work is relied upon as sound and authoritative.
- Makes recommendations and decisions based on precedent and refers difficult, complex or unusual decisions to the Design Supervisor and City Engineer.
- Work is not generally supervised in detail, mainly to review work programs and to give guidance.
- May guide the work of more junior staff.
- Undertakes project-specific public consultation, including as a City representative at public events, answering questions specific to engineering projects.
- Respond to public enquiries about projects that within their sphere of work.
- Plan, organizes and leads meetings with internal and external stakeholder’s contractors and consultants.
- Performs general administrative duties including data entry, taking meeting minutes, taking and organizing photos.
- May be required to assume other responsibilities during emergencies in the municipal environment.
- Performs related work as required.
Required Qualifications
- Civil Engineering Degree and be registered with EGBC with a minimum of 3-5 years related work experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
- Transportation background would be an asset.
- Experience with AutoCAD, Civil3D, GIS, and other engineering and mapping software.
- Strong experience with Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
- Comfortable in developing solutions to existing problems.
- Knowledge of the civil construction process, design, municipal construction, specifications and plans and transportation engineering.
- Valid Class 5 BC Driver’s License.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Excellent written, verbal and public presentation skills including confidently interacting with the public through phone, email and in person.
- The ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with council, senior management, internal and external stakeholder groups/partners, complemented by strong interpersonal skills to deal tactfully with council, staff, partner agencies, and the public.
- Ability to work with relevant design guidelines, bylaws, policies and procedures.
- Ability to prepare and present technical presentations and reports on technical, policy and planning issues.
- Proven ability to work independently to produce quality materials and recommendations within tight timeframes.
- Proven ability to exercise sound judgment and discretion.
- Ability to work well in a team environment and lead small teams, with minimal supervision and under tight deadlines.
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