Essential Functions: -- Essential functions, as defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act, may include any of the following representative duties, knowledge, and skills. Essential duties and responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Utilizes and applies engineering and project management principles to facilitate the success and overall prosperity of the City's infrastructure; manages significant capital improvement projects for the City with large budgets and strategic goals.
• Checks, evaluates, and reviews plans and specifications submitted by private engineering consultants and confers with and advises contractors, owners, and architects relative to the interpretation and application of City codes, standards and specifications.
• Reviews and evaluates proposed developments; provides all engineering reviews and coordinates with the planning department; communicates with various developers to resolve issues raised during the review process.
• Performs site visits to all projects within the City; reviews right-of-way permit and other applications for permitting; ensures all necessary documentation is submitted to satisfy requirement for issuance of permits.
• Prepares or participates in the preparation of designs and plans for engineering projects; determines and drafts specifications and details, makes complex computations, creates preliminary and final designs, and identifies time and material estimates; performs extensive project management and coordination.
• Monitors, and evaluates higher profile contract construction work to ensure compliance with established design, specification, and contract agreements; performs inspections and walkthroughs.
• Provides traffic engineering input to the various development entitlement processes. Prepares engineering sketches, or geometric requirements for public and private roadways, parking lots, traffic signals and street lighting.
• Reviews subdivision maps for code compliance and completion as related to vehicular access points, street layout, circulation, safety and convenience.
• Provides primary review of construction projects, specifications, traffic flow, and work site control. Confers with technical groups and/or community groups on traffic problems.
• Analyzes traffic accident tabulations and makes recommendations for accident prevention.
• Conducts traffic studies including origin and destination, travel time, accidents, transit, volume, capacity, parking, and pedestrian surveys for operational or planning applications.
• Demonstrated mid-level knowledge/understanding of project financials (budgets, costs, expenses, invoices, etc.)
• Demonstrates competency in processing, reviewing, and approving invoices for consultant work orders and capital improvement projects.
• Demonstrates competency with the ability to understand project design or construction project costs.
• Demonstrates competency managing and monitoring engineering consultant contracts as needed; provides feedback and general information regarding contract status and details.
• Demonstrates competency in managing multiple projects with limited supervision (mid-level of knowledge and able to handle some engineering issues independently)
• Demonstrates competency coordinating Project Meetings and actively participates.
• Demonstrates competency with effective communication with consultants, contractors, owners, architects, homeowners and various city departments.
• Attends and provides advice and engineering expertise in pre-construction conferences; reviews, evaluates, and determines feasibility of construction plans for private development; monitors compliance with City codes and proper engineering design standards.
• Represents the City in regional, state, and local transportation meetings; provides information and documentation; participates in the review of various studies which impact the engineering methodology of the City.
• Manages, monitors, and handles engineering consultant contracts as needed; provides feedback and general information regarding contract status and details.
• Performs other duties as assigned.