Principal Engineering Technician

The Riverside County Transportation Department is seeking a Principal Engineering Technician to join the Transportation Planning Division in Riverside.

The Principal Engineering will coordinate with civil engineering related infrastructure to review and comment on the most difficult and complex landscape, irrigation, drainage, street, and streetlight improvement plans while ensuring compliance with applicable codes, regulations, and ordinances.

This role involves supervising, coordinating, and reviewing the work of subordinate staff, landscape architects, landscape contractors, electrical contractors, and tree trimming contractors.

Competitive candidates will have landscape/irrigation design and construction experience k nowledgeable in Bluebeam, PLUS, and Microsoft Suite.

Candidates experienced interpreting landscape and irrigation plans for regulatory compliance with landscape architects and landscape contractors with contractors are highly preferred.

Meet the Team!

The Transportation Department is responsible for planning, designing, funding, building, operating and maintaining all roads, bridges, and transportation facilities within the unincorporated County territory.

Click here to learn more about the benefits of working for the County of Riverside!• Supervise, direct, coordinate and review work of landscape architect, landscape maintenance, electrical, tree trimming contractors.

• Supervise, direct and review subordinate staff's work with Special Assessment Districts and field inspection

• Consult with project coordinators or requesting agencies to define project scope, priorities and deadlines.

• Perform the review of the most difficult and complex landscape or irrigation plans and ensures compliance with appropriate codes, regulations, and ordinances.

• Select and adapt plans, techniques, designs, or layouts for projects; develop cost estimates and scheduling for various projects; monitor quality and progress.

• Serve as liaison with project applicants and their consultants to explain system, resolve problems and define needs.

• Analyze technical engineering data and prepares reports and recommendations.

• Review, interpret codes and regulations information submitted by outside agencies for accuracy and compliance with County standards.

• Participate in the selection and training of subordinate staff, consultants/contractors; evaluate the work of staff, consultants/contractors and resolve problems or recommend corrective disciplinary actions; assign work to subordinate staff based upon technical qualifications.

OPTION IExperience: Five years of increasingly technical and responsible sub-professional engineering or land surveying experience, including at least one year at a level comparable to Senior Engineering Technician with Riverside County.

(College level courses in civil engineering or closely related subjects such as surveying, soils mechanics, photogrammetry, mathematics, landscape architecture or...