Associate Engineer

The County of Riverside's Transportation Land Management Agency (TLMA) Transportation Department has an opening for an Associate Engineer. The Associate Engineer will be assigned to the Riverside location.

Assigned to the Traffic Engineering Division the Engineer will conduct traffic investigations; interacting with the general public regarding traffic operation issues; reviewing land development proposals concerning traffic impacts, traffic safety and determining mitigation measures; traffic signal design, street widening, sidewalk, and ADA ramp design; preparing and reviewing signing, striping, traffic signal, communications, roadway lighting, and traffic control plans.

The Department desires traffic engineering candidates who have experience in the development and review of transportation or public works projects, knowledge of the CEQA process, Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD), ADA regulations in regards to pedestrian accessibility, and Caltrans standard plans and specifications. Typical PS&E experience requirements include signing and striping plans, traffic signal plans, fiber-optic communications and ITS plans, roadway lighting, and worksite traffic control plans.

Candidates with experience in using Micro Station, Arc Map/ArcGIS Pro, Bluebeam, MS Office, Synchro & Sim Traffic, and Windows 11 operating software are preferred.

The incumbent will work with other Transportation Divisions and County departments, providing coordination of capital and development projects; interacting with developers, engineers, and the general public both verbally and through written communication; reviewing and implementing plans done by others, and performing other engineering tasks as assigned.

Possession of a valid certificate of registration as a Civil Engineer and/or Traffic Engineer issued by the California State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers is highly desired for an Associate Engineer classification.

The Transportation Department is responsible for planning, designing, funding, building, operating, and maintaining all roads, bridges, and transportation facilities within the unincorporated County territory.

• Assign work, give instructions, and resolve difficult engineering and administrative problems in connection with directing the work involved in the planning, design and construction of highways, sanitary landfills, flood control and drainage structures, or review and approval of structural or grading plans.
• Direct the activities of a group of office engineering personnel in analyzing field data and preparing plans, profiles, maps, and related drawings necessary for construction work.
• Make or review stress analyses of structures such as bridges and hydraulic structures; perform structural engineering analysis of proposed commercial, industrial and complex buildings and structures.
• Review grading, building and structure plans for conformity to uniform building codes, local ordinances, state regulations, and administrative policies.
• Assist and advise permit applicants in engineering and technical structural or grading problems; assist and participate in the in-service training programs of building inspectors and engineering technician relative to grading and structural inspections.
• Supervise the preparation of structural drawings; prepare specifications and related contract documents to be used in advertising construction projects for bids.
• Provide technical information to officials of other governmental jurisdictions, other engineers and the public; work with public utility companies in matters of facility relocation and right-of-way.
• Supervise the maintenance of the necessary records pertaining to survey and construction progress, job expenditures, budget programs, and work order balances.
• Supervise the preparation of requests for change orders; supervise the preparation of progress pay and final estimates on contracts.

Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering. (Possession of a valid certificate as an Engineer-in-Training issued by the California State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers may substitute for the required education.)

Two years of professional civil engineering experience, including one year in either
1) the planning, design and construction of highways, sanitary landfills or flood control projects;
2) review and approval of grading or structural plans for permit issuance; or
3) performing air or water quality control.

The fundamentals of civil engineering; mathematics and physics as applied to engineering; construction survey, stress analysis, hydraulic design, topographic mapping, analytical mechanics, and strength, properties and uses of construction materials; accepted practices of grading and structural plan review and approval; general methods and procedures of describing real property.

Direct the work of subordinate engineering personnel; design a…