Engineering Support Technician II - Public Works, Utilities, Water & Sewer Panning Division

Howard County

Conveniently located in the heart of central Maryland between Baltimore and Washington. Howard County offers the charm of a historic past mixed with the excitement of a cosmopolitan community.

Howard County Government is a leader in innovation, best practices and sustainability. It is consistently ranked as one of the best places to live and work in the country. In 2025, Howard County Government received a record-breaking 83 Achievement Awards from the National Association of Counties (NACo) – the most awards in the state of Maryland, and the fifth highest in the nation, as compared to more than 3000 counties.

NACo Achievement Awards are the premier national honor to recognize innovative and transformative programs that provide new services for county residents, improve existing programs, upgrade working conditions, and enhance citizen participation and public policy making.

We are looking for outstanding individuals to join our team and contribute to excellence in Howard County operations.

• We are committed to workplace excellence in every area of County government.
• We have a highly talented, diverse, and inclusive workplace. Your input will not only be heard, but it will be encouraged!
• We offer competitive compensation and great benefits including medical, retirement, and wellness programs.
• As a member of the Howard County Government team, you'll be helping drive our culture and directly impact what makes us an amazing place to work.

This position provides technical level engineering support to the Bureau of Utilities, Water & Sewer Planning Division, performs GIS mapping and asset management support for the Bureau's utility, and assists in planning, operation, maintenance and asset management functions. Performs the development, maintenance, update and advancement of the bureau's GIS infrastructure for water and sewer utility assets. Provide support for GIS applications and assists the development of high level online and mobile tools to streamline the bureau's GIS and other workflow.

Works with Asset Managers and ensures GIS is an integral part of the new Asset Management Software. Assists the development and implementation of GIS data standards, workflows, and quality control procedures.

$29.29 - $33.05

$60,923 - $68,744

Performs advanced technical level engineering support work, which may include supervisory responsibility, under the general supervision from a technical superior. Work includes technical land acquisition work such as negotiating the acquisition of rights-of-way and fee simple parcels; preparing legal and administrative documents used in land acquisition and condemnation proceedings; and preparing and executing contracts, deeds, and agreements. Work may also include planning, coordinating, and reviewing the work of a survey crew acquiring hydrographic and topographic data.

Includes the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Provides technical assistance to the lead GIS Analyst that administers the Bureau's water and sewer utilities geodatabase. Assists in the implementation and maintenance of the Bureau's water and sewer GIS system including providing technical assistance in digitizing, geocoding, field data collection and other spatial location techniques for water and sewer construction and maintenance record data.
• Provides GIS database management of the existing water and sewer records and ensuring up-to-date accuracy of all water and sewer maps.
• Provides technical assistance and support to the Bureau's Maintenance Division which includes implementing and maintaining up-to-date linking of the lnfor/Hansen work order maintenance and asset management database with the GIS mapping system.
• Provides assistance in ensuring that all generated and completed work orders issued by the field maintenance staff are properly logged into the database, and in the proper coding of all work order activities enabling field maintenance staff to review work histories associated with various water and sewer pipeline…