Wastewater Facility Senior Engineer - Environmental Services Department

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The Environmental Services Department (ESD) is a national leader in pollution prevention, watershed protection, utility service provision, and climate action. Together, ESD employees positively impact every resident and business in San Jose.

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Capital Improvement Program (CIP) Division

The Capital Improvement Program (CIP) division is leading one of the largest public works programs in San José's history! The division is responsible for delivering a 10-year capital improvement program estimated at $1.6 billion and assuring the future of wastewater treatment services for 1.7million residents and 17,000 businesses. The CIP division performs the overall planning and project delivery for all aspects of the San José-Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility (RWF) treatment process, including program administration and budget planning.

The division is also supported by a co-located team of consultant staff and staff from the Department of Public Works, who provide program management and construction management services, respectively.

Position Duties

The Environmental Services Department is currently seeking to fill one (1) Wastewater Facility Senior Engineer position in support of the RWF's CIP division. The Senior Wastewater Facility Engineer position is a management classification and reports to a Wastewater Facility Principal Engineer.

Wastewater Facility Senior Engineers work closely with Program Management Consultant (PMC) and Operations and Maintenance (O&M) staff in an integrated Program Management Office (PMO) to deliver a wide variety of capital improvement projects at theRWF.

Wastewater Facility Senior Engineers serve as Project Managers or Electrical Subject Matter Experts (SME) through all phases of their assigned capital project(s) from project initiation to feasibility development, design, bid and award, construction, testing, start-up, commissioning, and post-construction.

Project Manager:
Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, preparing consultant procurement documents (RFQs/RFPs); conducting contract negotiations and administration; directing the preparation and approval of project deliverables prepared by Consultants (i.e., condition assessment reports, alternative analysis reports, conceptual design reports, preliminary design reports, detail design drawings, specifications, permit documents, and construction estimates); preparing and negotiating level of efforts for service orders;

reviewing invoices; preparing Council memos and presentations forcontractaward.

Electrical SME:
Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, performing specialty engineering design (protective relaying, motor, and generator controls), reviewing and permitting of electrical building systems, reviewing complex professional plans and calculations to…