Deputy City Engineer

Overview

DEPUTY CITY ENGINEER - General employment applications may be obtained at the office of the Municipal Civil Service Commission, 4th floor, City Hall, Governmental Plaza, Binghamton, New York, 13901 or from the City Website ghamton-ny.gov. Application must be submitted by 4:45 P.M. on last date to file.

This is a professional engineering position, managing and directing engineering activities of considerable scope and variety. The City Engineer plans, develops, directs, and manages the City s engineering activities including design and construction of streets, water/sewage/drainage facilities, renovation of municipal buildings, parks facilities, and other various facilities. The City Engineer also participates in major project planning and policy formulations with the City s Capital Improvement Committee.

Management and supervision is exercised over all subordinate professional, technical and clerical employees in the Engineering Department.

Comprehensive knowledge of the principles and practices of civil engineering; comprehensive knowledge of engineering research and economics; comprehensive knowledge of sources of engineering information; comprehensive knowledge of modern methods and principles of construction and maintenance of public works buildings; thorough knowledge of administrative procedures and sound management techniques; thorough knowledge of methods and procedures involved in the initiation, planning, design, and development of major engineering projects;

ability to develop methods and procedures relating to engineering activities.

• In-house Project Engineering:
  Survey work for design and construction;
  Design of street/sidewalk/pipeline construction projects;
  Construction inspection of street/sidewalk/pipeline construction projects;
  Investigation/design for building, structural, and mechanical facility projects;
  Construction inspection of building, structural, and mechanical facility projects;
  Water/wastewater treatment and pumping studies, designs, construction inspection.
• Infrastructure Planning:
  Comprehensive infrastructure overview routine inspections with reports, preventive maintenance programs, facility retirement/replacement schedules, long range planning budgeting;
  Maintenance of record construction drawings.

• Possession of a New York State Professional Engineer License; and either:
• Graduation from a regionally accredited or New York State registered four year college or university with major work in Civil Engineering and six years of Civil Engineering experience; or
• Graduation from a regionally accredited or New York State registered two year college with major work in Engineering Science or Civil Engineering Technology and ten years of Civil Engineering experience; or
• Graduation from high school or possession of a high school equivalency diploma and fourteen years of Civil engineering experience.

If you are interested in becoming an integral part of the City s dynamic future, please send your cover letter and resume, with salary requirements to P, by mail to City of Binghamton, Personnel Office, 4th Floor, 38 Hawley Street, Binghamton, NY 13901 or place in the drop-box in the lobby.

The City of Binghamton is an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to workforce diversification. All new hires are required to pass a pre-employment drug test as a condition of employment. Broome County residency is required at time of appointment.