Engineering Technician II

The County of Riverside's Transportation Department has an opportunity for a Engineering Technician II supporting the Traffic Engineering division in Riverside.

The Engineering Technician II will perform field inspections to ensure compliance with permit conditions, project documents, County standards, and regulatory requirements. Responsibilities also include reviewing encroachment permit applications, project plans, conducting cursory traffic control reviews, and making redline corrections to project plans. Field inspections may include, but are not limited to, grading, paving, form inspections and concrete placement, traffic control, utility installation, and overall public safety

Competitive candidates will possess experience using ArcGIS and Micro Station, as well as experience working in civil, transportation, or traffic engineering environments. Additionally, public sector field experience, knowledge of traffic control, and experience with signing and striping operations are highly desired.

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

• Investigate and make diagrams, reports, and recommendations on high accident locations and other sites; coordinate traffic census programs; collect, interpret, record, and make graphical presentations from information gathered in traffic, transportation and other studies and surveys.
• Perform limited design of roadways and appurtenant structures; revise elements of simple engineering designs within established limits.
• Calculate and compute quantity and cost of materials for a variety of construction projects; prepare maps using manual or computer aided techniques.
• Enter appropriate computer commands into system for mapping processes; digitize maps for data entry; operate plotter for computerized map preparation.
• Investigate and make diagrams, reports, and recommendations on high accident locations and other sites; coordinate traffic census programs; collect, interpret, record, and make graphical presentations from information gathered in traffic, transportation and other studies and surveys.
• Perform moderately difficult sub-professional field and office Engineering work.
• Set up and maintain filing and indexing systems for road record documents, survey records, maps, transportation data, and other engineering record materials.
• Inspect the construction of less complex public works projects and subdivision tracts to assure compliance with plans and specifications.
• Field duties: transport and set mobile radar feedback trailer; investigate traffic concerns from the public, measure and determine placement of traffic control signs and markings, conduct sight distance measurements,
• Make computations and record readings; check and prepare field notes.
• Office Duties:
  Draft geometric alignment, cross-sectional, and profile drawings and maps using manual or computer aided techniques.
• Conduct title and property owner research; prepare legal descriptions and various legal documents relating to real property; calculate bearings, distances, areas, and perform other calculations.
• Under direct supervision, preform responsible sub-professional civil engineering work of a technically specialized nature in connection with traffic engineering. Complete traffic related investigations and provide reports and recommendations; collects, interprets, records, and makes graphical presentations of information gathered. Be able to conduct field reviews when necessary, throughout Riverside County. Provide thoughtful responses to the general public by letter, email, phone.

Experience:

Three years of sub-professional civil engineering experience. (Completion of college level courses from an accredited college or university in civil engineering or closely related subjects to the assignment such as land surveying, soils erosion, soils testing, blueprint reading, mathematics, computer graphics, or hydrology may substitute for up to two years of the required experience on the basis of 12 semester or 18 quarter…