Engineering Specialist
El Paso Water
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Job summary
El Paso Water in El Paso, TX, is seeking a Civil Service professional to support citywide projects from planning to execution. You will monitor schedules, budgets, and scope, prepare documentation, and coordinate activities across departments to ensure project success.
Responsibilities include design/inspection support, site surveying coordination, risk management, and reporting for management and public meetings. A degree and relevant para‑professional experience are expected.
Qualifications
- Education: Associate's degree or higher in Engineering/related field.
- Six years of para-professional engineering or project management experience.
- Valid Texas Class C Driver's License or equivalent on appointment.
Responsibilities
- Assist with project planning, coordination, inspection, and execution for citywide initiatives.
- Monitor start-up schedule, budget, and scope; prepare reports for management.
- Coordinate the schedule of activities and prepare design/inspection documents.
- Support public meetings and stakeholder communications; assist with risk management.
- Supervise and train staff, ensure quality and safety compliance.
Skills
Education
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Job description
$58,793.49 - $90,424.38 Annually
Various Locations within the City of El Paso, TX
Civil Service
13813-0826
El Paso Water Utilities
08/13/2026
8/18/2026 11:59 PM Mountain
Non-Exempt
75
Under direction, assists with various projects that may impact divisions citywide, departments, stakeholders, or residents throughout the projects’ implementation and lifecycle.
Assist with project planning, coordination, inspection, communication, and execution. Involves: Monitor and control start-up project schedule, budget, and scope. Understand a project’s scope and create documents for project requirements. Conduct, compile, and summarize research, and provide oral and written reports related to project implementation. Coordinate the schedule of activities related to the project. Engage in both quality assurance and risk management activities to ensure project deliverables are met. Maintain the quality of all project documents and data to ensure the integrity of a project. Assist with developing additional tools and refine processes to help all projects run effectively. Provide technical advice and assistance to City management, field personnel, contractors, etc. Participate in public meetings.
Review or prepare design plans in support of construction, site development, streets, drainage, water or sewer line, and storm drain, and vertical construction engineering projects as related to capital improvement projects according to specifications and in compliance with pertinent codes and ordinances. Involves: Check for adherence to technical procedures and engineering instructions. Verify survey measurements, and existing facility, utility, and structure data. Recommend alternatives regarding technical aspects of plans to meet planning, design, and cost problems encountered. Analyze plans for compliance with applicable ordinances, regulations, and specifications. Assist technicians in overcoming drafting and computational difficulties encountered, gathering inspection data, and resolving disputes.
Coordinate site inspection and surveying projects. Involves: Perform inspections of project construction to verify data and compliance with contract specifications. Measure, observe, and discuss the progress of work and related problems with colleagues, superintendents, and general contractor personnel. Ensuring compliance with professional and technical standards. Monitor work progress and verify that work conforms to the contract. Prepare completion certificate. Issue and track equipment.
Perform special investigations. Involves: Research controversial property line questions. Gather statistical and engineering data, and review sources such as records, files, and drawings. Confer with interested department personnel and other agencies. Develop alternatives and recommend technical corrective actions.
Assist with public works and capital improvement projects and property assessment records management. Involves: Ensure preparation of construction documents includes design data such as drawings, specifications, grading requirements, and legal descriptions of land for the City to acquire rights of way. Track project status. Conduct final reviews of contractor project bid proposals. Make final checks on pay estimates and contractor invoices. Direct information retrieval.
Supervise assigned staff. Involves: Schedule assign, instruct in, guide and check work. Appraise employee performance and review evaluations by subordinates. Provide for training and development; enforce personnel rules and regulations, and work behavior standards firmly and impartially. Counsel, motivate, and maintain harmony. Interview applicants. Recommend hiring, termination, transfers, discipline, or other employee status changes. Enforce safety rules and regulations.
Education and Experience: Associate's Degree or higher in Engineering, Drafting Technology, Project Management, Construction Management, or a related field, plus six (6) years of increasingly responsible para‑professional engineering, construction, or engineering project management experience; or 60 college credit hours in Engineering, Drafting Technology, Project Management, Construction Management, or a related field plus six (6) years of increasingly responsible para‑professional engineering, construction, or engineering project management experience.
Licenses and Certificates: Valid Texas Class "C" Driver's License or equivalent from another state by the time of appointment.
The required Supplemental Questions and answers are considered an examination component and will generate a score.
Applicants are being tested on a conditional basis pending a review of minimum qualifications. Applications will be reviewed for applicants who pass the Supplemental Questions exam.
Per CSC Rules & Regulations, after review of the minimum qualifications for applicants that pass the Supplemental Questions exam, a passing score, combined with applicable seniority points and veteran points, will be used to create a list of candidates.
Applicants with foreign diplomas, transcripts and degrees must have all documents translated and evaluated by an agency of the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) prior to submitting them to the Human Resources Department. Please visit www.naces.org/members for more information.
The City of El Paso is a self‑insured entity with a third‑party administrator for Medical and Pharmacy benefits. Basic Life Insurance Coverage is available at no cost to eligible employees. Additional Life Insurance and coverage for your dependents are also available.
Employees can select optional Dental, Vision, and Short Term Disability coverage. Employees also have the option to participate in a Health Savings Account or Flexible Spending Account (healthcare and/or dependent care for daycare expenses). All of these insurance and coverage options can be configured within a month of your new employee orientation date.
An Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with access to mental health sessions, therapy, and more is available at no cost. A trained counselors are also available to help you and your dependents cope with life’s stressors so that you can live a happy productive lifestyle.
The City’s Wellness Program seeks to promote better health and wellness amongst the workforce through various programs and incentives in which employees may choose to participate in, to include wellness education, fitness tests, biometric screenings, group fitness, health coaching and so much more!
Keep Learning, Growing & Reinventing Yourself! The City of El Paso's Tuition Assistance Program encourages employee personal and professional development by sharing educational costs with those employees who have successfully completed their original probation, and in turn retain a skillful workforce. Each year, employees can obtain Tuition Assistance for Degree, Certifications, Continuing Education, and Books & Equipment.
All regular employees who are regularly scheduled to work on an average, a minimum of twenty (20) hours per week, who have held a position in the City Service for a period of six months from date of employment, shall be eligible for vacation allowance as hereinafter set forth. Part‑time employees shall accrue vacation leave at a pro‑rated amount of full‑time entitlement based on the number of hours that they are scheduled to work. Employees covered by collective bargaining agreements shall accrue vacation as provided in the applicable agreement.
Regular employees in the City Service shall accrue vacation credit at the following rates per pay period, calculated from the date of employment of each employee:
- 40 hour per week employees - 3.70 hours per biweekly pay period
- 40 hour per week employees - 5.24 hours per biweekly pay period
- 40 hour per week employees - 6.16 hours per biweekly pay period
Employees shall be entitled to accrue sick leave with pay in accordance with the Rules of the Civil Service Commission.
The Amended Section 4.4 of the Ordinance shall become effective upon adoption and shall apply to occupational injuries and occupational diseases occurring on and after date of adoption. Occupational injuries and occupational diseases occurring before such date will be governed by the Ordinance in effect at the time of the date of injury or disease.
- Pregnancy shall be treated the same as any other temporary physical disability.
- An employee on pregnancy leave shall use accumulated and unused regular sick leave time and then (unless granted use of special sick leave) shall be on leave without pay, unless the employee chooses to use any accumulated and unused annual leave.
- An employee going on pregnancy leave shall give written notice to her department head with appropriate medical verification. Before returning to work from pregnancy leave, the individual will provide appropriate medical documentation releasing the employee to return to work, as is required for any individual who has been on leave for a temporary physical disability.
- First day of January (New Year's Day)
- Third Monday in January (Martin Luther King Holiday)
- Thirty‑first day in March (Cesar Chavez Day)
- Last Monday in May (Memorial Day)
- June 19 (Juneteenth)
- Fourth day of July (Independence Day)
- First Monday in September (Labor Day)
- Eleventh Day in November (Veteran's Day)
- Fourth Thursday in November (Thanksgiving Day)
- The Friday following the fourth Thursday in November (Day after Thanksgiving)
- Twenty‑fifth Day in December (Christmas Day)
- Employee's Birthday
In addition to the above days, the following days are also declared to be legal holidays: 1. Any day designated as a holiday by City Council. 2. When any legal holiday falls on a Saturday, the preceding Friday shall be considered a legal holiday. 3. When any legal holiday falls on a Sunday, the following business day shall be considered a legal holiday.
- At least 60 college credit hours in Engineering, Drafting Technology, Project Management, or Construction Management and six (6) years of increasingly responsible para‑professional engineering, construction, or engineering project management experience.
- Associate's Degree in Engineering, Drafting Technology, Project Management or Construction Management and at least six (6) years of increasingly responsible para‑professional engineering, construction, or engineering project management experience.
- Bachelor's Degree or higher in Engineering, Drafting Technology, Project Management, or Construction Management and at least four (4) years of increasingly responsible para‑professional engineering, construction, or engineering project management experience.
- None of the above.
- Texas Class A - CDL or equivalent from another state.
- Texas Class B - CDL or equivalent from another state.
- Texas Class C or equivalent from another state.
- No, I do not have a valid driver's license.
- Some Knowledge
- Good Knowledge
- Considerable Knowledge
- Comprehensible Knowledge
- Some Knowledge
- Good Knowledge
- Considerable Knowledge
- Comprehensible Knowledge
- Some Knowledge
- Good Knowledge
- Considerable Knowledge
- Comprehensible Knowledge
- Yes, it has been translated and certified and I can provide documentation upon a job offer.
- No, I have not had my degree translated and certified.
- N/A - my degree is from an accredited U.S. university or college.
- I acknowledge I have read and understand the above information.
- I understand that my answers to the supplemental questions will generate a score.
- I understand that I am being tested on a conditional basis pending review of minimum qualifications.
Address 300 N. Campbell
El Paso, Texas, 79901
Phone 915-212-0045
Website http://www.elpasotexas.gov
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