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Job Description
Job Summary
Join Our Engineering Team as a Civil Engineer in Training!
Are you passionate about building a sustainable future and solving complex engineering challenges? We're looking for a Civil Engineer in Training to bring fresh ideas, innovative solutions, and a drive for excellence to our dynamic team!
The purpose of this position is to assist the Capital Improvement Projects team with managing project development and implementation of Capital Improvement Projects. Projects include roadways, storm drainage, water, elevated and ground storage tanks, pump stations, lift stations and wastewater systems. This position is also responsible for assisting with managing consultant contracts, and consultant work activities. Other duties include attending meetings, coordinating work efforts and courteous interaction with public, private and City staff.
Essential Job Functions- Reviews engineering plans to verify if they meet City standards, specifications, and policies; and coordinate the review of the plans with other City departments for their input in the review.
- Assist with coordination acquisition of right-of-way deeds and easements by securing field data from survey crew; identifying the right- of-way needed; reviewing metes and bounds descriptions; and submitting documents to the right-of-way agent to be acquired.
- Assist with project Management and coordination for capital improvement projects including design, scope of work, cost estimating, contract administration, franchise utility coordination, budgets, and schedules. Analyzes and interacts with various City departments on the intent of the capital improvement project and project scope.
- Provides citizen assistance by answering citizen questions by phone or in person; and performing occasional site visits.
- Assist with the reviews, development, and scope for design and construction contracts between the City, consultants, and contractors.
- Manage consultants and contractors work through the development of project requirements including project strategies, budget, schedule, franchise utility coordination, land acquisitions, permitting requirements and compliance with City policies, procedures, design and construction standards, regulations, and codes.
- Assist with requests, evaluates, negotiates, and management of consultant proposals, sets project schedules, design review elements, agency coordination, owner reviews, regulatory agency compliance, budgeting considerations in accordance with appropriate engineering standards.
- Assist CIP Project Manager and/or Senior Project Manager with providing technical advice and assistance to other City departments, engineers, architects, and contractors for conformance with City policies and guidelines.
- Facilitates complaint and problem resolution.
- All other duties as assigned by a supervisor/manager within your department/division.
- Regular and dependable attendance is required.
Minimum Qualifications- Education: Work requires specialized knowledge in a professional or technical field. Work requires professional level of knowledge of a discipline equivalent to that which is acquired in a bachelor’s degree-level of study, in engineering.
- Experience: Over three years. This time may be made up of a combination of assisting a professor with research, undergraduate capstone projects related to civil engineering, internships, and general work experience.
- Licenses: Valid Texas Class C Driver's License
- Certifications Required: Texas Engineer in Training (EIT) Certificate (or ability to get within 12 months) and Certified Floodplain Manager (or ability to get within 12 months)
Closing Date/Time: 3/14/2025 5:00 PM Central -
Special Instructions
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ABOUT THE COMPANY
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City of Grand Prairie
Show moreWelcome to the City of Grand Prairie! We Live Life Grand here – about 200,640 residents call Grand Prairie home, and we’re still growing. Grand Prairie is the 16th largest city in Texas and the 125th largest city in the United States, but we still have small town values. We are rated the #1 Best Place to Retire in the U.S., 2nd Happiest City in Texas, 5th Best City for First-Time Home Buyers in Texas, 7th Safest Large City in Texas, and in the Top 50 U.S. Best Place to
Raise a Family!We have attractions that draw almost 10 million visitors a year to:
- Epic Waters Indoor Water Park showcasing 80,000 square feet of year-round water fun referred to as a “cruise ship on land”
- The Summit Active Adult Center with state-of-the-art fitness training, indoor infinity edge pool with lap lanes and exercise vortex, theater, game room, sauna
- PlayGrand Adventures (10-acre, all-accessible playground) is an exciting opportunity to provide a safe and fun playground experience for all ages and abilities (open late 2019)
- Firehouse Gastro Park restaurant downtown (conversion of historic Firehouse #1)
- Lone Star Park Thoroughbred Horse Race Track
- The Theatre at Grand Prairie concert venue
- Historic Uptown Theater in downtown
- IKEA, Living Spaces and the Premium Outlet Mall
- Traders Village
- Lake Joe Pool
- Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! And Palace of Wax
- Epic Central Park, a 172-acre park with five lakes, a Grand Lawn amphitheater, trails and a water and light show
- Chicken N’ Pickle
- Bolder Adventure Park
- The Epic Arts, Fitness and Entertainment Center with $1 million in cardio and strength training equipment, indoor walking/jogging track, group fitness and more
Grand Prairie recently welcomed more than 50 new restaurants and retail stores along SH 161, and development continues at a brisk pace. The city offers a vibrant lifestyle, with the best parks in the nation, more amenities than most, affordable to affluent housing and friendly neighbors.
City employees work hard to ensure Grand Prairie is known as an organization that creates Raving Fans by delivering world-class service. Our employee family and elected officials constantly live our values, aggressively move toward our vision and are always looking for ways to make the business of running a city even better.The hard work, positive input and optimism of all our city employees all play a key role in our success. We look forward to you joining our
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