Charlotte Water Services Capital Improvement Plan Engineer Senior

Date Opened: Friday, December 06, 2024 12:00 AM

Close Date: Sunday, January 05, 2025 12:00 AM

Department: Charlotte Water Department

Salary: $85,237.21 - $106,546.52 Commensurate with Experience

SUMMARY

JOB SUMMARY
Offering $95,852.00 - $106,546.00 commensurate with experience.

This Senior Engineer position is a core member of a small engineering team that works alongside the CIP Program Manager to develop, oversee, and enhance a variety of tools, products, and reports related to the department’s long-range capital plan. Charlotte Water’s Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) consists of 100+ water and wastewater utility infrastructure and related support projects. This position will work closely with project and program managers handling large-scale utility-focused capital investments throughout all delivery stages. This position combines engineering project management coordination and team leadership with financial and economic acuity. This work requires a high degree of communication and collaboration across many divisions within the department to assess capital project and program needs and financial impacts.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Support the CIP Manager in the implementation and enhancement of a comprehensive, year-round framework for capital improvement planning, inclusive of formulation, monitoring, and auditing of the CIP and associated projects.
• Serve as a direct liaison to project and program managers delivering work across a diverse portfolio of water, wastewater, and business support capital investments.
• Review and discuss project/program details such as scopes, schedules, dependencies, cost estimates, cashflows, and expenditures.
• Provide training and mentorship for staff related to capital improvement planning and processes, ensuring consistency across numerous data sets.
• Gather, review, analyze, and report data, including, but not limited to project visualizations, justifications, schedules, and cost estimates, utilizing Trimble Unity Connect formerly e-Builder, and ArcGIS Pro.
• Assist in preparing, organizing, and maintaining CIP documentation, including budgets, schedules, and reports.
• Prepare presentations, charts, maps, and summaries for internal and external meetings.
• Engage with the Business and Finance team on an as-needed basis to monitor CIP expenditures.
• Manage correspondence, meeting agendas, and minutes for CIP-related discussions.
• Compile, analyze, and map data and data trends associated with CIP efforts.
• Develop spreadsheets, reports, dashboards, and process maps as related to CIP.
• Perform varied and complex engineering and capital planning functions.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Knowledge of fundamental project management principles for project planning, cost estimating, and implementation.
• Knowledge of different project delivery methods, including traditional and collaborative delivery.
• Knowledge of capital investment planning and cash flow terminology and strategies.
• Knowledge of principles and practices of utility construction cost estimating.
• Ability to interact and influence managers of projects and programs that are large and complex with the intent to enhance CIP processes.
• Ability to audit the processes associated with project management: project estimates, schedules, cash flow, and other financial activities.
• Ability to provide effective leadership, collaboration, and interpersonal skills and build consensus among various team members.
• Skill in working with Microsoft Products and Trimble Products (e.g., Trimble Unity Construct formally e-Builder software) and preparing data-driven reports.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATION

• Licensure as a Professional Engineer.
• Engineer-in-Training (EIT) certification.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS TO PERFORM WORK:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, or a related field from an accredited school.
• Five (5) years of related work experience in engineering or municipal capital improvement projects including one (1) year of supervisory experience as a mentor/team leader for other engineers.
• Requires a valid driver’s license.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

The City’s Background Check Policy requires background checks to be conducted on final internal or external candidate(s) applying for any position with the City of Charlotte. The type of information that will be collected as part of a background check includes, but is not limited to: reference checks, social security verification, education verification, criminal conviction record check, and, if applicable, a cre