Engineering Technician Senior

This Senior Engineering Technician position’s primary responsibility will be to perform and manage special projects related to civil engineering and land use planning in support of Gresham’s Development Engineering group. This position reports to the Infrastructure Development Manager and works most closely with that group of 14 people. Within that group are Public Works Inspectors, Land Surveyors, Development Engineering Specialists, and Civil Engineers. While this group’s responsibilities include both indoor and outdoor work, this position will work almost exclusively in an office setting.

This is a part-time position consisting of 10 hours per week and will require 50% of time to be spent on site and the remaining 50% remote.

What you will get to do:

Manage several projects concurrently with varying priorities and time lines

Research of related engineering practices, both on-line and through collaboration with other agencies;

Perform analysis of engineering alternatives;

Acquire project specific data, which may be either generally available or Gresham-specific

Synthesize data and analysis to provide conclusions, in the form of written documentation and, in some cases, formal reports

Provide recommendations for appropriate solutions to the problems/projects being analyzed, and coordinate the implementation of conclusions by development or incorporation of procedures, standards, and/or code.

Examples of upcoming projects:

Evaluate the acceptable amount of erosion runoff per the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RSULE)

Create geotextile fabric specification for the City's Public Works Standards

Evaluate weir spacing standards for street-side swales

What we are looking for:

Someone who can work independently with minimal supervision

An effective problem solver

Outstanding organizational skills

Solid communication skills both verbally and in writing

Attention to detail

Ability to manage multiple competing tasks, priorities and deadlines

Minimum Qualifications:

Associates degree

Three (3) to Six (6) years of progressively related experience.

Any combination of qualifying education, training, and/or experience equivalent to Five (5) to Eight (8) years will be considered.

Selection Process

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Required application materials:

Complete online application (Do not type 'see resume' in any fields or leave work experience fields blank in the application template.)

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