Civil Engineer III

Civil Engineer III

Immediate vacancies are available in the Department of Public Works, Department of Management, and Department of Environmental Management. Salary depends on qualifications. The position is located in Maui County (various), HI, and is a permanent full-time role. The job number is R-6939 and the opening date is 08/28/2021.

This class involves moderately difficult professional engineering work in the design, construction, maintenance, and operation of civil engineering projects. The role includes preparing designs, plans, specifications, estimates, and reports, and performing other duties as required. Distinguishing characteristics include exercising a substantial degree of engineering judgment and assuming responsibility for projects of well-defined, routine, or uncomplicated nature in testing, designing, computation, or construction, or assisting a registered civil engineer on more complex projects.

• Makes office and field studies of proposed projects and supervises preliminary and final surveys.
• Establishes benchmarks.
• Takes cross-sections, profiles, and contours.
• Makes survey computations and prepares preliminary drawings.
• Designs and assists in the design of reservoirs, retaining walls, bridges, culverts, tunnels, pipelines, sewers, sidewalks, highways, and other concrete, steel, and timber structures by computing grades and alignments, loadings and stresses, determining the size, proportion, and dimensions of structures and supervising the preparation of construction plans and drawings.
• Assists in the preparation of specifications and contract documents.
• Prepares cost and quantity estimates.
• Checks shop drawings.
• Supervises construction and inspection activities.
• Interprets plans and specifications.
• Changes and corrects plans.
• Keeps records of work done, materials used, and prepares monthly and final payment estimates.
• Makes hydrologic and land development studies.
• Checks plans and specifications of buildings and structures for compliance with the building code.
• Reviews test reports and soil analysis reports.
• Performs other related duties as required.

Training and

Experience:

A combination of education and experience substantially equivalent to graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering and two (2) years of professional civil engineering experience. License Requirement:
None. Knowledge of: civil engineering principles and practices; engineering mathematics; engineering mechanics and the mechanics of materials; hydraulic, hydrologic, structural, mechanical, electrical, and sanitary engineering principles to the extent that these apply to the general field of civil engineering. Ability to: do civil engineering design work or supervise construction and inspection activities; analyze stresses and determine the required foundations and structural features;

supervise a small group of subordinate professional or sub professional employees; prepare engineering and inspection reports. Physical Condition:
Persons seeking appointment to positions in this class must meet the health and physical condition standards deemed necessary and proper to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodations. Physical Effort Grouping:
Light.