Assistant Municipal Engineer

Assists the Municipal Engineer in planning, organizing, directing, coordinating, controlling, integrating, and completing a variety of comprehensive engineering projects, programs, and activities for a municipality; does related work as required.

• Assists the Municipal Engineer in planning, organizing, directing, coordinating, controlling, integrating, and completing a variety of comprehensive engineering projects, programs, and activities for a municipality; does related work as required.
• Assists in planning and formulating engineering programs and projects and in organizing the assignment of project staff.
• Assigns engineering personnel to specific phases of projects such as technical studies, project design, preparation of specifications and technical plans, and testing and inspections.
• Reviews project designs for compliance with engineering principles, plans, specifications, and provisions of contract.
• Assists in coordinating engineering activities concerned with technical developments, scheduling, and resolving of engineering design problems.
• Assists in evaluating and approving design changes, plans, specifications, and sketches.
• Assists in controlling expenditures.
• Assumes the duties of the Municipal Engineer in his/her absence.
• Supervises field parties conducting surveys for municipal improvements, lots, pavements, sewers, curbs, sidewalks, lines, and grades.
• Checks to ensure that proper field notes are taken and plotted on graphs.
• Supervises the preparation of maps and charts from field notes and observations.
• Makes varied and difficult calculations.
• Prepares reports of construction expense, time spent, and materials used.
• Supervises staff engaged in the drafting of drawings and provides instructions regarding information to be shown, scales and sizes.
• Consults with general contractors on construction projects.
• Advises inspectors as to quality and quantity of work desired. Oversees the work of inspectors.
• Provides advice to subordinates in the handling of unusual situations.
• Prepares specifications for concrete ingredients and proportions.
• Prepares and supervises the preparation of specifications and construction plans.
• Prepares designs for sewer extensions, pavements, and structural work of varied types.
• Analyzes municipal construction needs and makes appropriate recommendations and reports.
• Cooperates with municipal officials and civic groups in preparing specifications and plans for long range municipal improvements.
• Establishes and maintains essential records and files.
• Will be required to learn to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and computerized information systems used by the agency, office, or related units.

Graduation from an accredited college or university with a

Bachelor’s degree in Civil, Mechanical, or Electrical

Engineering.

NOTE: Possession of a Professional Engineers license issued

by the New Jersey State Board of Professional Engineers and Land

Surveyors may be required by same jurisdiction.

NOTE: Possession of a Professional Engineers license issued

by the New Jersey State Board of Professional Engineers and Land

Surveyors may be substituted for the college degree.

EXPERIENCE:

Two (2) years of supervisory engineering experience in the

design, maintenance, and construction of projects including the

preparation and review of construction plans and specifications.

LICENSE:

Appointees will be required to possess a driver’s license

valid in New Jersey only if the operation of a vehicle, rather

than employee mobility, is necessary to perform the essential

duties of the position.

Authorization to Work: US citizenship is not required. Selected candidate must be authorized to work in the US according to Department of Homeland Security, US Citizenship and Immigration Services regulations.

Residency Law: Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 52:14-7 (L. 2011, Chapter 70), also known as the "New Jersey First Act," all persons newly hired must establish, and then maintain, principal residence in the State of New Jersey.