USDA NRCS Binghamton, NY - Engineering Technician

In partnership with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), ELYON International is recruiting Engineering Technicians in New York state. The ELYON Engineering Technician (Civil) will be an integral part of the NRCS Team and provide support for a variety of programs, projects, and special tasks. Work must be completed in accordance with NRCS policies, guides, and the state Field Office Technical Guide (FOTG).

The anticipated workload will require working outdoors in the field, in the office, and other business locations and environments.

• Duties shall include but not be limited to:
  • Assisting agency staff with project planning, documentation and implementation both in
    the office and in the field.
  • Inventorying and evaluating potential new project sites to support conservation practice
    systems.
  • Assist and complete required engineering surveys to support future designs and
    construction project layout.
  • Assisting with development of engineering design calculations, drawings, specifications,
    cost estimates, asbuilts, etc.
  • Assist and complete construction inspection of construction projects during construction
    and report findings to the appointed government representative or responsible NRCS
    employee.
  • Evaluate and assist with evaluating construction materials to verify that they meet or
    exceed specifications - this shall occur during construction activities but shall also
    include going to rock quarries to verify required material size requirements and material
    quality requirements.
  • Develop, maintain, and complete construction project job diaries as required.
  • Communicate daily, or as needed with NRCS employees, the design approver, owner and
    others on construction projects for progress updates, project coordination, potential
    problems, substandard construction work, potential needs for contract design, cost, or
    specification modifications.
  • Keep track of ongoing quantities for construction projects, and make NRCS employees,
    the design approver, owner and others aware of potential quantity overruns.
  • Assisting with non-inherently governmental and non-sponsor paperwork processing and
    activities
  • Verify that all construction projects assigned are following the required construction
    specifications and are following all required permit regulation requirements and keep
    files that document these activities, including but not limited to manufacturer's material
    specifications, quality of construction work, equipment breakdowns, substandard
    materials, OSHA construction safety violations, regulatory permit violations, material
    testing results, communications with contractors, landowners, agency personnel, material
    providers, regulatory personnel, local unit of government Sponsors, NRCS employees,
    the design approver, owner, other appointed Construction Inspectors, various county and
    district employees, and others
  • Provide documentation that is accurate and complete, this will require the gathering of
    information, recording of data, establishing and maintaining files, and transmitting the
    information in the required format to the appropriate personnel.
  • Contractor employee shall have a working knowledge of AutoCAD Civil 3d 2016, or
    similar technical and agency software, and the capability to be trained on such technical
    and agency software to improve skills. Actual experience and formal educational training
    are desirable when available.
  • Contractor employee shall with appropriate guidance develop and complete engineering
    drawings, modify AutoCAD Civil 3d 2016 drawings to the point of completing many
    standardized NRCS drawings, modify and develop new drawings when needed. The
    Contractor employee will interpret these and other construction drawings and
    9 specifications, explain these interpretations to contractors, landowners, agency personnel,
    material providers, regulatory personnel, local unit of government Sponsors, NRCS
    employees, other Construction Inspectors, and various county, district employees and
    others.
  • Contractor employee will, after appropriate training and support on agency equipment, be
    able to independently download survey data, and produce contour maps/drawings when
    needed. Contractor employee shall be able to analyze data to produce surfaces, profile
    views and sections views from the surveyed data.
  • Contractor employee will review and provide comments to NRCS staff on construction
    drawings and specifications developed by NRCS or others when needed to verify
    technical adequacy and accuracy of the materials and documents in question.
  • Contractor employee will have either a working knowledge of or the willingness and
    capability to be trained on a variety of surveying equipment. Contractor employee shall
    use and troubleshoot setup problems for various forms of surveying equipment, self
    levelling levels, total station equipment, data collectors, GPS total stations, etc. Following
    initial training on agency specific equipment, the contractor employee shall be able to
    independently operate such equipment and will train others on…