Engineering Technician - Sign Shop

Under direction, performs a variety of paraprofessional office and field tasks in support of the County’s engineering programs; areas of responsibility include, but are not limited to, traffic engineering, civil engineering, surveying and construction inspection/oversight; serves as Chief of Party for survey crews; prepares a variety of engineering drawings and plans; and performs related work as required.

Management reserves the right to add, modify, change, or rescind the work assignments of different positions and to make reasonable accommodations so that qualified employees can perform the essential functions of the job.

Employees at the Engineering Technician I and II levels may exercise some of these functions in a learning capacity.

Performs a variety of technical engineering office and field tasks in support of the County’s engineering programs; areas of responsibility include, but are not limited to, traffic engineering, civil engineering, surveying and construction inspection/oversight.

Provides technical support to traffic and civil engineering projects; develops and maintains files on traffic accidents; reviews subdivision and drainage improvement plans; assists with preparing requests for consultant services; processes encroachment permits in accordance with applicable policies.

Serves in a lead capacity for a survey party performing a variety of field, construction, right-of-way, topographic, and land surveys; operates a variety of surveying equipment and instruments including transits, total stations, data collectors, levels, site rods, tapes, and chains.

Develops and maintains accurate field notes, showing lines, angles, distances, benchmarks, mathematical calculations, and other pertinent field survey data; tabulates and plots field data; develops and checks notes, drawings, tracings, and engineering computations.

Checks and prepares property descriptions; researches recorded documents; performs property and right-of-way surveys; performs and calculates boundary and control surveys.

Analyzes construction plans and performs construction staking; maintains files indices and files of survey records.

Performs office technical support; utilizes Computer Aided Design (CAD) software to develop engineering drawings; performs basic contract administration and record keeping; assists with the development of estimates, plans, and specifications for a variety of Transportation Department projects.

Conducts construction inspection duties to assess workmanship on a variety of public works projects and ensure conformance with established plans and specifications inspects, samples, and tests soils, aggregates, concrete, and asphalt; compiles and prepares results for review by engineering staff.

Receives and responds to a variety of questions from the public regarding transportation department functions and activities.

Performs Permitting and Encroachment Permitting functions.

Assist or direct the Engineering Aide and Road Maintenance Workers in the performance of field work for the Pavement Maintenance Program, implementation of appropriate traffic signs or markings, and traffic control duties. Performs other duties as assigned.

• Operations, services and activities of a comprehensive engineering and public works program.
• Basic fundamentals of civil and traffic engineering.
• Laws and regulations applicable to the Transportation Department functions, including the Subdivision Map Act.
• Topographical and construction survey practices and the operational characteristics of field surveying equipment.
• Engineering mathematics, including geometry and trigonometry.
• Testing procedures and equipment for construction materials.
• Principles and practices of data collection and analysis.
• Principles and…