Engineer III; Floodplain Services

Overview

Snohomish County Surface Water Management (SWM), a Division of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, is hiring a highly capable Habitat Restoration Engineer III to join our team. The successful candidate will demonstrate expertise in designing habitat improvement projects, managing hydraulic structures, performing hydraulic computer modeling, and overseeing grants and contracts. Excellent communication, customer‑service, and teamwork skills are essential.

• Project management, analysis, and design of major improvements and modifications to public works roads and structures; produces design reports and plans, specifications and cost estimates for construction of public works facilities such as roadways, bridges, surface water systems, and solid waste sites.
• Reviews engineering design work to ensure proposed designs meet project needs, engineering specifications and cost regulatory requirements.
• Conducts or directs the preparation of major planning or design engineering studies; monitors the collection of field data and the technical evaluations used to develop recommendations.
• Manages the selection and administration of engineering consultants performing work for planning and reports, plans, specifications, estimates, and on‑call engineering services.
• Prepares requests for proposals for professional engineering, consulting, and environmental services; reviews requests from consultants for changes in scope of work and recommends appropriate action.
• Acts as a technical resource in a specialized area of engineering to resolve complex design and construction problems within the public right of way and provide assistance in correcting related problems on private property.
• Conducts field trips to inspect project sites during planning and design phases, and during construction for compliance with specifications and plans.
• Provides technical support and acts as engineering liaison between public works, consulting engineering firms and other governmental agencies; reviews agency documents and prepares and presents comments on behalf of the department.
• Coordinates the location, notification and preparation of presentations at public meetings for assigned projects and assists in other project manager's public meetings; provides technical testimony at public hearings or meetings.
• Provides technical assistance, guidance, and training to engineering staff.
• Assigns, leads, and evaluates the work of subordinate employees as required; advises, assists and trains subordinates as necessary; participates in the selection of new employees and makes hire recommendations.
• Researches and prepares pertinent data and reports for legal counsel for court actions and represents public works on matters pertaining to real property condemnations.
• Reviews and approves all plans and contract documents before they are used in the public bidding process for county construction projects.
• Establishes and monitors a current public meeting calendar for all required public information meetings on proposed public works projects; confers with the appropriate project manager and conducts a checklist for all the required logistical details for the meeting.
• Assures the accuracy of all engineering design standards and standard specifications used by the design staff; updates design standards and specifications as requested by the Engineering Manager and maintains up‑to‑date files of design standard drawings and standard specifications for staff use.
• Develops recommendations for mitigating measures to reduce or provide for environmental impacts to the county road system.
• Supervises or conducts field and laboratory investigations required to obtain representative soil information for potential construction sites; such investigations may be through borings, soundings, sampling or testing.
• Evaluates field laboratory soils results and makes engineering recommendations pertaining to the foundation design of roadway, bridge foundations, retaining walls and landslide corrections.
• Manages the civil materials testing laboratory; approves construction materials and their sources, maintains materials records, makes…