Engineering Construction Manager

Posting number: 00910

Department: Engineering

Job classification: Engineering Construction Manager

Posting type: Open

Categories: Engineering

Summary

General Description
The purpose of this job within the organization is to prepare specifications for various projects in Street Operations and provide project management. This job works under administrative supervision, developing and implementing programs within organizational policies and reports major activities to executive level administrators through conferences and reports.

Duties and Responsibilities
The functions listed below are those that represent the majority of the time spent working in this job. Management may assign additional functions related to the type of work of the job as necessary.

Examples of duties

Essential Functions:
Manages various contracts, acts as a liaison between the City and the private landfills located within the City; inspects work on projects.
 
Inspects the operation and reviews records of landfills located within the City.
 
Serves as City's Technical Advisory Committee member on the Central Waste Management Authority.
 
Assists Street Operations, General Manager and Director of Public Works in budget preparation and tracking.

Serves as City's alternate on the Central Waste Management Authority board.

Inspects streets, sidewalks, and other infrastructure within street right of way.
 
Additional Duties:
Prepares project specifications; monitors production schedules and delivery dates for all vendors on all assigned projects.

Manages day to day activities; meets with outside governmental and landfill representatives, contractors, and the public.

Collects data for projects to be added to the Strategic Action Plan and Capital Improvement Plan.

Provides technical guidance to vendors on various projects.

Attends City Councilor's neighborhood meetings.

Performs related work as assigned.

Responsibilities, Requirements and Impacts Data Responsibility:
Data Responsibility refers to information, knowledge, and conceptions obtained by observation, investigation, interpretation, visualization, and mental creation.  Data are intangible and include numbers, words, symbols, ideas, concepts, and oral verbalizations.
 
Plans and directs others in the sequence of major activities and report on operations and activities which are very broad in scope.
 
People Responsibility:
People include co-workers, workers in other areas or agencies and the general public.
 
Provides information, guidance or assistance to people that directly facilitates task accomplishment; may give instructions or assignments to helpers or assistants.
 
Asset Responsibility:
Assets responsibility refers to the responsibility for achieving economies or preventing loss within the organization.
 
Requires responsibility and opportunity for achieving considerable economies and/or preventing considerable losses through the management of a large division or minor department and/or handling of very large amounts of money.
 
Mathematical Requirements:
Mathematics requires the use of symbols, numbers and formulas to solve mathematical problems.
 
Uses basic algebra involving variables and formulas and/or basic geometry involving plane and solid figures, circumferences, areas and volumes and/or compute discounts and interest rates.
 
Communications Requirements:
Communications involves the ability to read, write, and speak.
 
Reads journals, manuals and professional publications; speaks informally to groups of co-workers, staff in other organizational agencies, general public, people in other organizations and presents training; composes original reports, training and other written materials, using proper language, punctuation, grammar and style.
 
Judgment Requirements:
Judgment requirements refer to the frequency and complexity of judgments and decisions given the stability of the work environments, the nature and type of guidance, and the breadth of impact of the judgments and decisions.
 
Responsible for guiding others, requiring frequent decisions, affecting the individual, co-workers and others who depend on the service or product; works in a somewhat fluid environment with rules and procedures, but many variations from the routine.
 
Complexity of Work: