Town Engineer

JOB FUNCTION: The Town Engineer plans, directs, and provides engineering and construction

JOB FUNCTION: The Town Engineer plans, directs, and provides engineering and construction management associated with the investigation, design, maintenance, and construction of public improvement projects. Provides expert professional input to the Director and Town Management in wastewater collection, stormwater, public buildings, streets, highways, bike/pedestrian, and the design and construction of the same.

DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS: The Town Engineer must be very adept in non-technical verbal and written communications, interpersonal relations, project development and project management, in addition to the technical and analytical skills necessary to address complex problems of a specialized engineering nature.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: The duties below are illustrations of the types of work that may be performed.

• Conducts detailed analysis of all public infrastructure, including transportation systems, sanitary sewers, storm sewers, water systems, and public facilities. Determines condition, capacity, overall adequacy, and identifies short and long-term capital needs.
• Develops and advances capital projects through conceptual planning, public engagement, development of funding plans, and project prioritization.
• Prepares requests for proposals and/or qualifications and related bid documents for professional engineering studies. Reviews proposals and formulates recommendations for award to the Director of Public Works. Manages selected consultants and vendors, and processes invoices for payment.
• Reviews and approves all bid documents, scopes of work, technical specifications and construction documents for the design and construction of public improvement projects.
• Oversees bid phase services for the design and construction of public works construction projects and formulates contract award recommendations to the Director of Public Works.
• Provides contract administrative services for all engineering and construction services associated with public improvement projects and studies; makes field decisions relative to design changes; responsible for the effective and efficient resolution of all other field problems or conflicts; and makes recommendations to the Director for the approval of project invoices and change orders.
• Oversees the engineering and design phases of public improvement projects and ensures that all work products meet the project goals and objectives and adherence to all specifications and standards.
• Oversees the permitting process for all public improvement projects and certifies to the Director of Public Works that all necessary local, state, and federal permits have been secured prior to the advancement of a project.
• Oversees the right-of-way acquisition process associated with public improvement projects and certifies to the Director of Public Works that all necessary rights have been properly obtained prior to advancing projects to construction.
• Oversees construction and inspection of all public works construction projects and ensures that all improvements have been completed in conformance to all approved plans and specifications. Processes invoices and makes recommendations for payment the Director of Public Works.
• Maintains and updates as needed, all departmental bidding and contract documents.
• Performs all technical reviews of proposed development projects, including traffic impact studies, speed studies, sight distance analysis and regulatory sign warrant analysis. Develops detailed comments and recommendations to ensure conformance with accepted standards, established regulations, and adopted plans and practices.
• Performs final inspections of all public infrastructure associated with new development and certifies that all related requirements have been met for acceptance by the Town.
• Maintains and updates as needed the departments technical design standards for all public infrastructure.
• Supports the ongoing implementation of the Town’s stormwater utility in coordination with other DPW staff; this includes support for ongoing review of credit applications, analyses related to impervious surfaces for utility purposes, regulatory and other compliance requirements for existing and future stormwater permits, updates to the Utility Manual and others as may be required.
• Manages and coordinates all departmental requirements associated with regulatory compliance to include environmental permitting and all public infrastructures including the inspection and reporting on all permitted stormwater outfalls.
• Provides general engineering and technical support to the Town through such activities as conducting traffic studies and analysis, and providing design services and field engineering for small construction projects. The Town Engineer performs traffic studies including but not limited to speed studies, analyzing regulatory sign warrants, and sight distance analysis.
• Develops all necessary protocols,…