Engineering Specialist - Transportation

Salary Range

7,157.00 - 9,147.00

Job Summary

As one of the fastest growing cities in the Pacific Northwest, Vancouver is building a city of the future through innovation, sustainable development, excellent leadership and effectively working with an engaged community. Our growth is guided by our core values of livability, sustainability and resiliency, innovation, and equity and inclusion, and we accomplish our work through collaboration, innovation, compassion and empowerment.
If who we are speaks to you, and if you’re the type of person who is interested in joining a team committed to providing a safe, efficient and sustainable transportation network for our community then the City of Vancouver may be for you.

We’re currently recruiting for an Engineering Specialist – Transportation. The primary responsibilities for the job are to provide a high level of civil engineering design and project management support to the transportation street design program in preparation of plans, technical specifications, cost estimates, and contract documents for the construction of public works capital improvement projects. To review civil plans prepared by consultants for quality control as related to the city’s drafting standards. To work with minimal direction and under the supervision of Senior Civil Engineers and Engineering Manager.

This is a full-time, regular, non-exempt union position. This position is covered under the provisions of an agreement between the City and the OPEIU union. The schedule for this position is M-F, 8am to 5pm.

Open until filled. Frist review – December 15, 2025.

Job Details

Essential Functions:

• Prepare engineering designs, and draft capital improvement project plans using AutoCAD and Civil 3D design software. Plans include alignments, profiles, streets and utilities, right of way, signal and lighting, paving, signing and marking, traffic control, landscaping as well as other miscellaneous elements. Prepare technical documents and cost estimates. Responsible for bringing projects from planning phase through design to final plans for construction bidding
• Prepare quantities take-offs and engineer’s estimates for transportation projects, and stormwater analysis and reports.                                                                                                            
• Prepare preliminary project specifications for engineer approval.  Prepare stormwater analysis using HydroCAD software and prepare stormwater reports for engineer approval
• Assist Design Engineer with engineering duties related to capital improvement projects during the design and construction of complex capital Public Works system projects and preparation of reports and presentation documents to City Council.
• Provide technical guidance to other technicians in the design and drafting of capital improvement projects.
• Conduct field site visits, collect data, research existing city records, perform engineering calculations and prepare estimates; produce plans and specifications; update construction drawings and estimates based on review comments and directions from higher level engineers to produce construction ready projects.
• Perform civil plan reviews for designs developed by consultants to ensure compliance with the city’s drafting standards.
• Manage and track the engineering teams AutoCAD licensing and software. Maintain and develop AutoCAD tools and processes to assist in using AutoCAD to develop capital improvement project plans.
• Use GIS software to obtain property ownership information, right-of-way widths, recorded surveys, and subdivisions and plats
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications

Experience and Education

• Four (4) years of increasingly responsible technical engineering experience including AutoCAD and Civil 3D design software. Experience in civil, transportation, water and sewer, stormwater, signal and lighting and pavement design preferred
• Equivalent to an Associate's Degree from an accredited college with major course work in engineering or a related field. 
• Equivalent combinations of education and experience may be considered.

Computer Skills

• Proficiency with AutoCAD and Civil 3D
• Basic skills with Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
• Intermediate skills in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint

Required Licenses and/or Certifications

• Possession of a valid driver's license

Knowledge

• Understand and apply City design standards used in the design and construction of Public Works systems.
• Working knowledge of civil engineering desi