Senior Engineer

Summary

Under the general supervision of the Assistant City Engineer, the Senior Engineer performs high-level engineering related duties including but not limited to reviewing and approving site and subdivisions plans and plats, managing the design and construction of City municipal projects, and regularly interacting with a wide variety of individuals, companies, and organizations.

Essential Duties & Required Qualifications

• Attends meetings with developers, engineers and other city staff to discuss drainage/water quality, transportation, and utility elements of proposed development projects;


• Reviews plans and plats for site development and subdivision improvements project for compliance with City Codes and Ordinances in regard to drainage/water quality, transportation, and utility elements;


• Reviews drainage/water quality, transportation, and utility engineering studies and models for compliance with City’s design criteria;


• Prepares written technical comments on proposed development projects submitted to the City;


• Conducts periodic field inspections and assesses construction progress and compliance with codes, plans and specifications, developing solutions for problems and questions, and coordinating with engineers, contractors, and inspectors to implement solutions;


• Presents status reports of development projects to Assistant City Engineer and City Engineer, as needed;


• Reviews permit applications for franchise utility construction in City right-of-way for compliance with City Codes and Ordinances;


• Manages capital improvement projects including budgets, contracts, design, construction, and coordination with internal and external stakeholders including engineers, inspectors, and other project related consultants;


• Analyzes and approves hydrologic/hydraulic reports and models for development and capital improvement projects;


• Assists the City’s Floodplain Administrator in their duties including issuing permits for development in floodplain and enforcing requirements of the City’s Floodplain Management Regulations, reviewing, approving, or denying updates and revisions to the City’s Flood Insurance Maps (FIRMs); oversees the maintenance of records and documents that keep the community eligible to participate in FEMA’s National Floodplain Insurance Program (NFIP); reviews and coordinates floodplain related projects, studies and plans initiated by Federal and State Agencies, nonprofit organizations, developers, and others;


• Coaches, mentors, trains, and develops EIT Engineers;


• Attends various City administrative meetings, such as Planning and Zoning, City Council meetings, and prepares and performs verbal and written presentations to City Manager, City Staff, Boards and Commissions, as required;


• Works closely with other department heads, staff, construction engineers, developers, inspectors, and contractors regarding engineering and public works activities and projects;


• Responds to citizen and developer inquires related to development drainage/water quality, utility, and transportation matters in person, on the phone and/or via email;


• Interacts with various regional utility, regulatory and governmental organizations (ie County, FEMA, TCEQ, TxDOT, and LCRA), and consults various data sources concerning engineering standards, regulatory compliance and requirements for development activities;


• Performs related duties as assigned.

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Required Education and Experience*

• Bachelors of Science Degree (B.S.) in Engineering from an accredited college or university


• Minimum of ten (10) years of experience working in land development and/or public works field for a municipality or consulting engineer

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Required Certificate and Licenses*

• Licensed in the State of Texas as a Professional Engineer (Civil) or ability to obtain the license within six (6) months of hire if licensed in another state


• Possession of a valid Texas Driver’s License or ability to get one in 60 days from hire

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Preferred Education, Experience, Certifications, and Licenses*

• Masters of Science Degree (M. S.) in Engineering from an accredited college or university


• Certified Floodplain Manager (CFM)


• Experience with FEMA regulations and the City of Austin Drainage Criteria Manual

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Read and interpret technical information from engineering construction plans and plats.


• Prepare written technical correspondence.


• Manage multiple projects at one time.


• Operate computers using software such as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, AutoCAD, GIS, HEC-HMS, and HEC-RAS.


• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external customers.


• Demonstrate proficiency in both oral and written communication.


• Gather, compile, analyze, and evaluate a variety of data to make sound decisions as it applies to providing required services.


• Establish and maintain effective relationships with public officials, superiors, subordinates and the public.

Physical Demands & Additional Information

Physical Demands
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear and taste or smell. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

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Working Environment*
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; extreme cold; extreme heat; risk of electrical shock; explosives; risk of radiation and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet, but the field work may be loud at times.

Your well-being and that of your family matters to you, and so it's important to us too. To support you and your loved ones through life's many challenges, we offer our full time employees access to a wide array of benefits including health, dental, vision, life, disability, accident, cancer, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, employee assistance, paid holidays, paid sick leave, paid emergency leave, longevity pay, golf course discounts as well as generous retirement and deferred compensation programs and social security participation.

Medical
We offer two types of medical plans (a traditional PPO plan and a high deductible health plan) so that you can choose the one that best fits your needs. The premium you pay is based on which plan you select and who you cover. Covering just yourself? The City currently pays the entire employee-only premium for either plan. Covering qualified dependents in your family? Currently, we'll pay your employee premium and split the remainder of the spouse/child/family premium with you - we pay 60%; you pay 40%. That generous cost share reflects our philosophy that our employees and their families should have the best health care we can afford to provide.

Dental
Dental plans include a DMO option (no cost for employee-only coverage) and two more traditional plans whose premiums are also affordable. You can choose to cover yourself or any qualified dependents and choose which plan best suits your dental needs. Currently, for the DHMO option, we pay the employee premium and split the remainder of the spouse/child/family premiums with you – we pay 50%; you pay 50%. Under the more traditional plans, although we don't pay the entire employee-only premium, we still split the incremental dependent premiums with you 50/50.

Vision
Access to $10 eye exam co-pays and up to $150 frame and contact lens allowances make vision insurance a popular benefit among employees. Cover yourself for just a few bucks a pay period or all of your qualified dependents for not much more.

Life/AD&D
Your basic employee $15,000 term life insurance policy is paid for by the city. Accidental Death & Dismemberment under the plan would pay an additional $15,000 to your beneficiary if you die in an accident. More life insurance coverage is paid for by the City and provided through our Texas Municipal Retirement System (TMRS) program. If that's still not enough coverage, you can purchase more life/AD&D coverage for yourself and your qualified dependents. Over the age of 65? These coverages are subject to an age reduction schedule.

Disability
Both short and long term disability plans which provide up to 60% income replacement are available to purchase at competitive rates.

Accident & Cancer
Need extra coverage for off-the-job medical injuries or a cancer diagnosis? Supplemental plans that pay cash for some of life's most unexpected events are available for purchase.

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
Want to set aside some pre-tax dollars for health care expenses or dependent care expenses? If you select the traditional EPO medical coverage, you can set aside pre-tax money for medical expenses through the City's Section 125 medical FSA plan, which is managed by an outside carrier. You can do the same for dependent day care expenses, regardless of which medical plan you select.

Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
The high deductible health care plan has its own provisions for pre-tax health savings (HSA) so you can set aside money for your qualified health care expenses. The City will add $1000 to your health savings account to get you started each plan year.

Employee Assistance Program
We know that sometimes your needs are much different than a doctor visit or a prescription, so the City pays for a generous employee assistance program through Alliance to help you or any household member with counseling, legal referrals or simply a safe ride home.

Holidays
The City has eleven designated holidays each year.

Vacation Leave
Most full time, regular employees (excluding firefighters on a 24 hour shift schedule and department heads) accrue 3.69 hours of vacation time each pay period and are eligible to use that time after just six months of employment. The longer you work for the city, the more vacation time you receive, with those accrual rates going up at 4, 9 and 14+ years of service. Never use your vacation time? Don't worry; you can bank up to two times your annual accrued hours before you stop accruing.

Sick Leave
As a full time regular employee (excluding firefighters on a 24 hour shift), you also accrue 3.69 hours of sick leave each pay period, which you are eligible to use after your first pay period with the city. Don't need them? You can sell them back to the city – up to 24 hours (less sick time taken) each calendar year after your first full year of employment. You can also continue to build your sick leave balance up to 480 hours for those unexpected emergencies.

Emergency Leave
The City allows up to five days of paid leave (or two 24 hour shifts for 24/48 hour fire department) for regular employees in the event of the death of an immediate family member (as defined in city personnel policy).

Longevity Pay
Regular full-time employees after they've been employed for one year or more are eligible for an annual payout of $5 for every month of City service. So, while that first year $60 check might not seem like a ton of money, that $1500 check (minus taxes of course) for your 25 years of service which is paid around Thanksgiving will likely help you feel very thankful for a little extra cash for Christmas shopping.

Retirement
All regular full-time employees participate in our Texas Municipal Retirement System (TMRS). Your 7% investment each payroll period is matched 2 to 1 by the City and is vested at 5 years. You can retire at age 60 with 5 or more years of service or younger if you have at least 20 years of service. You can also receive service credit for certain types of military service. The City's TMRS plan is one of the most generous retirement plans around.

Deferred Compensation
If saving 7% with a 2 to 1 match through TMRS isn't enough to meet your financial goals, you can stash even more on a pre-tax basis through the City's 457 plan. Start or stop saving at any time – up to $18,000 annually if you're under 50, and up to $24,000 if you're older.

Social Security
City of Leander employees also participate in the social security system under FICA regulations.

Golf Course
We have a gorgeous golf course. Want to learn how to play? As a City employee you can play for 50% off. Check it out!

See Benefits at a Glance for even more information on our many perks.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $86,860.80 - $112,912.80 per year