Senior Engineering Technician, Public Infrastructure
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Job Location:
Frisco, TX - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
14 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
Overview
Senior Engineering Technician Public Infrastructure
Westwood Professional Services Inc.
Westwood Professional Services Inc. is seeking a Senior Designer/Engineering Technician to join our team in our Frisco TX this role you will take the lead on engineering design efforts for public infrastructure projects including grading roadway drainage water and sewer design. Westwood is a national civil engineering consulting firm that provides a variety of career opportunities across multiple disciplines for both public and private infrastructure projects. Our employees benefit from a comprehensive package that includes excellent health care 401(k) matching profit sharing paid time off professional career resources significant growth opportunities and an outstanding company culture.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Selects recommends performs and directs procedures and preparation of preliminary and final design
- Assist in coordination with other in-house disciplines and sub-consultant services
- Prepares plan documents and supporting design calculations
- Demonstrates knowledge and application of engineering principles and suggests design changes
- Qaulity check drawings and plans of substantial complexity and may perform some multifaceted calculations
- Adhere to Westwood CAD document control standards and file organization structure
- Able to delegate CAD assignments and determine methods and procedures
- Independently performs assignments on basic design elements
- Provides training and coordination with CAD Technicians Grad Engineers and Engineering Interns
- Coordinates work activities to maintain project deadlines budgets and ensure projects are completed on schedule
- Prepare grading designs plan and profile of roadways and utilities
- Prepare complete civil construction documents/improvement plan sets
- Review and understand jurisdictional code requirements and implement in the design
- Prepare construction cost estimates/quantity takeoffs
- Perform Quality Assurance/Quality Control of work product
- Assist in the submittal of project document
- Assist in jurisdictional coordination response to comments and preparation of submittal documents
- Maintain open communication with Project Manager and design team
Required Skills
- Able to prepare grading plans with little direction from supervisor or team leader
- Understands drainage water sewer design elements
- Understand surveying mapping
- Competent technical skills required to complete basic engineering tasks
- Pro-actively pursues design solutions
- Exercises sound independent judgement
- Strong understanding of local and agency standards codes and policies
- Strong understanding of client requirements
- Ability to estimate man-hours for specific tasks
- Advanced knowledge of CAD software
- Able to identify and obtain necessary data to complete design
- Able to maintain organized CAD drawings and draws with precision
- Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Outlook and able to write send and process email
- Able to maintain a task list and set the priority of tasks to achieve project milestones and deadlines
- Able to write justification letters for elements of designs and submittal packages
Required Experience
- 5 years of experience working with AutoCAD Civil 3D
- High School Diploma or equivalent and 5 years relevant experience
- Associates Degree preferred
- Public Infrastructure experience a plus
About Westwood Professional Services Inc. (Westwood)
Westwood Professional Services Inc. (Westwood)was established in 1972 and has since become a leader in many of the markets it serves. Westwood is a full-service multidiscipline professional engineering firm and serves wind solar power delivery residential and commercial development and public infrastructure clients and their projects from multiple offices across the U.S.
In 2023 Zweig Group ranked Westwood nationally at #12 and #30 respectively on its Hot Firms and Best Firms to Work for lists. Zweig also awarded Westwood two national 2nd place awards for Marketing Excellence. Westwoodwas recently recognized as #79 in the ENR Top 500 Firms in 2023.The firm consistently ranks on industry top 25 lists and receives recognition for its involvement on award-wining projects nationwide.
Westwood provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws. We believe that diverse backgrounds strengthen our business. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Hospital Experience
- Hotel Experience
- Taleo
- Calibration
- Pool Maintenance
- Maintenance Management
- Maintenance
- Quality Control
- Boiler
- Oil & Gas Experience
- Programmable Logic Controllers
- Supervising Experience
About Company
For nearly 50 years, Westwood Professional Services has been a leader in multi-disciplined land surveying & engineering services for residential & commercial
