Engineering Technician; Airport

Job Description - Engineering Technician (Airport) (240000JB)

Position Grade:14G

Department:
Airport

Job Type:Full-Time (Permanent)

Examination Number: EX1108

Location:

St. Louis Lambert International Airport

(Employees assigned to St. Louis Lambert International Airport may be eligible for a commuting allowance of $180.00 bi-weekly.)

• Oversees and reviews all parts of building maintenance service contracts.
• Holds progress meetings with service contract representatives.
• Creates/edits scope of work for maintenance contracts, Solicitations for Bids (“SFB’s”) and Requests for Proposals (“RFP’s”).
• Attends pre-bid conferences, pre-construction meetings, building/facilities walk-throughs, and responds to bidders’ questions.
• Manage/inspects contractors to make sure they perform to contractual specifications.
• Prepare annual budgeting for contractual encumbrances.
• Works on and reviews budgets for the Electrical, Climate Control, Building Maintenance, and Housekeeping Departments.
• Reviews tenant construction applications (“TCA’s”) and may provide follow up inspection.
• Organizes work performed in the Lindbergh Tunnel in coordination with the MoDoT per maintenance contract.

• Data Utilization:
  Requires the ability to perform mid-level data analysis including the ability to audit, deduce, assess, conclude and appraise. Requires discretion in determining and referencing such established criteria to define consequences and develop alternatives.
• Human Interaction:
  Requires the ability to persuade, convince, influence, train and monitor others such as contractors, managers, superintendents, consultants, city agencies, testing labs, supply manufacturers, and code authorities, in favor of a desired outcome. Requires the ability to act as a lead person.
• Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use:
  Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or provide simple but continuous adjustment on equipment, machinery and tools such as a computer, surveying instrument, air and electrical meters, and a vehicle, and/or materials used in performing essential functions.
• Verbal Aptitude:
  Requires the ability to utilize a variety of reference, descriptive and advisory data and information such as financial estimates, change orders, construction specifications, asbestos manuals, technical operating manuals, statutes, procedures, guidelines and non-routine correspondence.
• Mathematical Aptitude:
  Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; calculate decimals and percentages; perform basic algebra, geometry, and trigonometry.
• Functional Reasoning:
  Requires the ability to apply principles of influence systems such as supervision, managing, leading, teaching, directing, planning, coordinating and controlling. Ability to exercise independent judgment to apply facts and principles for developing approaches and techniques to problem resolution.
• Situational Reasoning:
  Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental and/or subjective criteria, as opposed to criteria that are clearly measurable or verifiable.
• Environmental Factors:
  Tasks may risk exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such temperature and noise extremes, machinery, vibrations, electric currents, traffic hazards, toxic/poisonous agents, or irate individuals.
• Physical Requirements:
  
  Tasks involve the ability to exert light physical effort in sedentary to light work, but which may involve some lifting of moderately light objects and materials, up to twenty (20) pounds. Tasks require the ability to stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, bend, and climb in order to perform inspection duties.
• Sensory Requirements:
  Requires the ability to recognize and identify similarities or differences between characteristics of colors, shapes, sounds, and textures associated with job‑related objects, materials and tasks.

• Must be available to work varying shifts including nights, weekends, holidays, and overtime.
• A ten year background investigation will be conducted in…