Senior Engineering Technician

City of Redmond; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking city as a Senior Engineering Technician, where you'll manage critical aspects of public works and traffic operations. This role blends office and fieldwork, ensuring compliance with regulations while conducting plan reviews and inspections. Your expertise will help shape the future of transportation and construction in the community. Collaborate with various departments and stakeholders to enhance city services and streamline processes. If you are passionate about engineering and making a difference in public safety and infrastructure, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Paid Vacation & Holidays

Employee Assistance Program

Retirement Plans

Flexible Spending Accounts

Annual COLA adjustments

Annual merit increases

Qualifications

• Requires a degree in drafting or engineering sciences and 7 years of experience.
• Strong organizational and communication skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Conduct plan reviews and field inspections for construction projects.
• Manage Telecommunications Master Permit agreements and ensure compliance.

Skills

Technical Proficiency

Interpersonal Skills

Organizational Skills

Communication Skills

Problem-solving

Education

Degree in Drafting or Engineering Sciences

Seven years experience in Engineering Technician field

Tools

Energov Software

Bluebeam Revu

SharePoint

GIS Applications

Job description

The City of Redmond is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Engineering Technician to join our Public Works - Traffic Operations Safety and Engineering team. As a Senior Engineering Technician, you will play a crucial role in managing the City's Rights-of-Way and ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and agreements. This position involves a combination of office-based tasks, such as plan reviews and permit processing, as well as field inspections of construction projects.

In this role, you will contribute to various municipal engineering activities and contract administration, requiring both technical proficiency and strong interpersonal skills. The ability to effectively organize and prioritize work, as well as lead other technicians on specific projects, is crucial. Your advanced skills will be utilized to handle unusual or irregular situations that may arise during engineering and construction activities.

The Senior Engineering Technician position entails performing highly complex technical tasks to support a range of engineering work, including traffic control, construction, and right-of-way permitting. While expertise in traffic control is not a requirement, a solid understanding of transportation construction, such as roads, streets, sidewalks, and the potential impact of underground utilities on these infrastructure elements, is essential to identify and address potential issues proactively.

As a Senior Engineering Technician, you will play a vital role in developing consistent standards and procedures, contributing to the improvement of City services and procedures in the development review process. This position involves extensive collaboration and coordination with other City employees and departments, ensuring seamless execution of engineering and construction activities.

Join our team as a Senior Engineering Technician and make a significant impact on the transportation, construction, and right-of-way permitting activities in our organization.

NOTE: This is a Limited Duration position with full benefits and an anticipated contract duration of two years from hire date with the possibility of the duration being extended. Have questions about what this means? Don't hesitate to ask!

If selected for this role, here are a few of the key responsibilities:

• Conduct plan reviews for traffic control, construction, and right-of-way permit processing, including interaction with Energov software and calculations of invoices and bond values.
• Perform field inspections of transportation construction projects, including roads, streets, sidewalks, and utilities installations, ensuring compliance with plans and specifications.
• Manage Telecommunications Master Permit agreements, reviewing applications for compliance with the Redmond Municipal code and agreement requirements.
• Review engineering quantities and calculations to establish cost estimates for bonding purposes.
• Track various agreements, liability insurance certificates, and financial guarantees (cash and performance bonds), maintaining files, documents, maps, and as-built records.
• Coordinate the review and approval of Right-of-Way applications related to telecommunications and franchise utilities.
• Review permit applications for compliance and create invoices, as well as issue permits.
• Collaborate and communicate with telecommunications companies, franchise utilities, developers, businesses, residents, and external agencies.
• Possess in-depth knowledge of codes and requirements associated with agreements and permits.
• Clearly communicate technical information, both verbally and in written form, regarding the agreement and permit application process and requirements.
• Demonstrate strong organizational skills, ability to prioritize and manage a high volume of work and contacts.
• Act as a subject matter expert (SME) in using Energov software.
• Experienced in managing Bluebeam Revu Sessions and SharePoint.
• Utilize GIS applications to verify right-of-way, utility easements, and private property boundaries.
• Provide technical support and coordinate with construction review engineers, inspectors, and staff from Transportation and Planning departments.

Education and Experience

• College-level course work or graduation from an accredited two-year college or university with a degree in drafting, engineering sciences or related field.
• Seven (7) years experience in an engineering technician related field.
• Or any equivalent combination of education, experience and training that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.

Licenses and Certificates

• Valid Washington State Driver's License and a driving record that meets city standards.
• This position is currently covered by a collective bargaining agreement.

Please review the Senior Engineering Technician classification description for more information about the knowledge, skills, abilities, working conditions, and physical requirements.

The City of Redmond offers an excellent benefits package including:

• MEDICAL INSURANCE - Choice of two plans for employees and their eligible dependents: Premera or Kaiser Permanente, all employee premiums paid by the City of Redmond.
• PRESCRIPTION DRUG INSURANCE - Included with each medical plan.
• DENTAL INSURANCE - For employees and their eligible dependents.
• VISION INSURANCE - For employees and their eligible dependents.
• OTHER INSURANCE - Life, accidental death & dismemberment insurance, short and long-term disability, optional employee-paid voluntary life insurance.
• FLEXIBLE SPENDING ACCOUNTS - For tax savings on healthcare and dependent care expenses.
• PAID VACATION & HOLIDAYS – with (13) paid holidays per year.
• EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (EAP).
• RETIREMENT PLANS - Department of Retirement Systems (DRS) PERS plus additional options that include: Municipal Employees Benefit Trust (Social Security replacement plan) and MetLife 457 Plan.
• Annual COLA adjustments.
• Annual merit increases of up to 5%.

Selection Process
It is highly encouraged as soon as possible. We will be regularly reviewing applications and contacting top candidates.

Please include a resume with your application. Please be sure to list or upload copies of all relevant training and certifications on your application.

The City may review existing application pools to fill this position or use this pool to fill future vacancies. The City is accepting applications from internal and external applicants.

About the company

Redmond is a city in King County, Washington, United States, located 15 miles east of Seattle.