Posting Open Until Filled

Salary: Commensurate with experience

At the City of Atlanta, we are passionate about building and improving our community. Our police officers, firefighters and building inspectors keep our citizens safe. Our Public Works staff keeps our City clean and helps maintain, build and improve our City’s infrastructure. Our City planners help envision and shape future City growth. Our Parks & Recreation professionals enhance our quality of life.

Our engineers help keep our drinking water clean, the largest airport in the world (by passenger volume) operating and our buildings maintained. Along with the host of Finance, Procurement, and Human Resources professionals whose support is vital, we are the City of Atlanta! If you are seeking a meaningful role where you can make a real difference improving and growing our City, we welcome you to explore the job opportunities we have to offer.

General Description and Classification Standards

Manages the Construction of Capital Infrastructure Projects for the City of Atlanta's Department of Watershed Management Facilities and Conveyances. Facility construction includes water and wastewater treatment plants, CSOs, and pumpstations. Conveyance construction includes sewage collection piping, potable water distribution piping, stormwater piping, combined sewer storage tunnels and green infrastructure. Manages capital transportation, roadway, and trail projects for the City. This is a senior level position with a formally designated team of professional employees, proficient in one or multiple specialties.

Supervision Received

Direction received is very general and focuses on end results and is typically collaborative in nature. Makes decisions on technical issues, diagnoses, or procedures in collaboration with supervisors or managers.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities These are typical responsibilities for this position and should not be construed as exclusive or all inclusive. May perform other duties as assigned.

Coordinates design, plans, and the scheduling of capital infrastructure projects; assists in the development of scopes of work, reviews cost estimates for projects while maintaining compliance with state, and local regulations. Performs constructability reviews as required. Manages capital transportation, roadway, and trail projects for the City. Directs project field inspection and field engineering staff, ensuring that project deadlines are met.

Reviews permit applications for appropriate erosion control measures, proper sewer connections to the public sewer, and proper grading and drainage of proposed work.

Works closely with the Capital Improvement Project Team including representatives from Capital Project Division, Engineering Support Services, Strategic Asset Management, Office of Linear Infrastructure Operation, Office of Water and Wastewater Treatment, and other City of Atlanta Departments.

Meet the need of Project Users (DWM),Internal Clients, and Customers by understanding the user's needs and expectations for the Project.

Establish project goals based on what the project will accomplish according to the internal and external clients expectations.

Develop and implement a project management plan that includes the project scope and budget, project team organization, roles and responsibilities, lines of communication, correspondence, procedures, project schedule and deliverables, quality control/quality assurance procedures, use of DWM guide specifications, drawing standards, and involving team members in the development and endorsement of the work plan.

Establish and maintain partnering or a formal management process in which all parties to a project voluntarily agree at the outset to adopt a cooperative, team-based approach to project development and problem resolution to eliminate -- or at least reduce -- conflicts, litigation, and claims.

Manage resources by effectively monitoring project schedule and expenditures to ensure that budget and schedule objectives are achieved.

Ensure quality so that project objectives and requirements are achieved by developing a quality management plan outlining the quality processes that should be followed throughout the project.

Monitor and verify delivery of services and costs to ensure that the User's project desired objectives and requirements are met on budget and on schedule. 

Represents the City of Atlanta as the owner's representative Field Project Engineer for watershed project construction. Responds to emails and phone calls from citizens concerning stream buffer rules and regulations and assist them with the process of a buffer application.

Mitigates potential risks by incorporating clear and verifiable safety and quality requirements and procedures and enforcing the contract requirements for work plans, accurate specifications and safety.

Attends project status meetings, prepare bimonthly, monthly & quarterly program and project cost reports.

Formats and maintains bi-monthly project status reports utilized by the Director to determine existing progress and resources requirements.

Decision Making

May make purchasing or resource allocation decisions within organization guidelines. Selects from multiple procedures and methods to accomplish tasks.

Leadership Provided

Has managerial authority over a group of professional employees and/or a group of professional, technical, or administrative employees with multiple intermediate supervisors and/or team leaders.

Knowledge, Skills &Abilities This is a partial listing of necessary.

knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform the job successfully. It is not an

exhaustive list.

Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in construction; knowledge of surveying, engineering, and construction methods; knowledge of Planning, Engineering Design, and Project

Management. Skill in Word, Oracle, Primavera, Excel, e-Builder, and other technical software in order to create well-structured documents, reports, spreadsheets, presentations, proposals and other documents; skill in preparing effective and strong oral and written communication; skill in reading, interpreting, and producing legal documents such as legal descriptions of property.

Ability to maintain effective interpersonal relationships at all organizational levels and with the public; ability to demonstrate tact and diplomacy when dealing with difficult or sensitive situations; ability to work effectively, as part of a team to ensureteam and business goals are met effectively and efficiently; ability to work independently when required, working effectively without supervision; ability to maintain effective interpersonal relationships at all organizational levels and with the public.