Assistant Engineer at Cucamonga Valley Water District (CA) – Rancho Cucamonga, California

If you’re a strong communicator who values collaboration and is eager to apply your AutoCAD skills to meaningful community projects, this opportunity offers a strong foundation for a rewarding engineering career. Join CVWD as an Assistant Engineer on our Capital and Development team. In this role, you will gain hands-on experience in designing and developing engineering projects while being exposed to project management activities, including contract administration, meeting coordination, and support for construction inspections.

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JOB DESCRIPTION

Class specifications are intended to present a descriptive list of the range of duties performed by employees in the class. Specifications are not intended to reflect all duties performed within the job.

DEFINITION

Under supervision, performs professional engineering work and administrative tasks associated with the planning, design, and construction of engineering projects; and performs various tasks relative to the assigned area of responsibility.

DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS

Assistant Engineer is identified as the first-level professional position in the engineering class series. It is distinguished from positions in the Engineering Technician series in that the latter is primarily engaged in engineering plan checking and other technical support tasks. It is distinguished from Senior Associate Engineer in that the latter is the fully-experienced staff engineer overseeing the day-to-day aspects of engineering project management.

SUPERVISION RECEIVED AND EXERCISED

Direct supervision is received from a Senior Associate Engineer, the Engineering Manager (Planning and Water Resources), and/or the Engineering Manager (Capital and Development).

Technical/functional work direction may be provided to Engineering Technicians.

ESSENTIAL AND MARGINAL FUNCTION STATEMENTS

Essential and other important responsibilities and duties may include, but are not limited to, the following:

Essential Functions:

Water Resources and Planning

Capital and Development Projects

Marginal Functions:

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

Knowledge of:

Basic civil engineering principles, practices, methods, materials and hydraulics.

Fundamentals of engineering economics including cost/benefit analysis.

Engineering project management methods and techniques.

Construction management principles and techniques.

Federal, state, and local laws and regulations affecting water and wastewater utilities.

OSHA regulations and safe work practices.

Skill in:

Using a personal computer and related software for business and engineering applications, proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and

PowerPoint.

Ability to:

Learn and apply general engineering principles to the solution of specific engineering problems.

Gather, analyze, and evaluate technical information and make reasoned recommendations thereon.

Assist in the conduct of various engineering project management activities.

Review and evaluate engineering specifications, requests for proposals, contract documents, and design drawings.

Present technical information to non-technical persons.

Make accurate engineering calculations.

Maintain detailed and accurate records.

Understand and carry out oral and written instructions.

Communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing.

Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with those contacted in the course of work.

Maintain physical condition appropriate to the performance of assigned duties and responsibilities.

Maintain mental capacity which allows the capability of making sound decisions and demonstrating intellectual capabilities.

Maintain effective audio-visual discrimination and perception needed for making observations, communicating with others, reading, writing and

operating assigned equipment.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Any combination of experience and training that would likely provide the required knowledge and abilities is qualifying. A typical way to obtain the knowledge, skills, and abilities would be:

PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORKING ENVIRONMENT

The physical demands and working environment demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this class. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.

Environment:

Standard office setting; frequent interaction with District staff and general public.

Physical:

Incumbents require sufficient mobility to work in an office setting; stand and sit for prolonged periods of time; operate office equipment, including the use of a computer keyboard; ability to verbally communicate to exchange information; use of hands repetitively to operate fingers, handle or feel office equipment, and reach with hands and arms. Employees are frequently required to stand and walk.

Mental:

The incumbent is regularly required to use written and oral communication skills; read and interpret data, information, and documents; analyze and solve complex problems; use math and mathematical reasoning; perform highly detailed work under changing, intensive deadlines on multiple tasks; work with constant interruptions.

Vision:

See in the normal visual range with or without correction; vision sufficient to read computer screens and printed documents and to operate assigned equipment.

Hearing:

Hear in normal audio range with or without correction.