Job Summary:

The incumbent provides senior technical, administrative project management, design, and construction services for capital projects.

Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Manage, coordinate, monitor, report, and maintain accurate records for projects while ensuring compliance with sound engineering standards.
2. Coordinate and update asset management database relating to City Infrastructure and new capital projects.
3. Prepare designs, detail drawings, specifications, local improvement bylaws, and project estimates in the relevant area of engineering.
4. Prepare and control budgets.
5. Manage and inspect capital projects including evaluating the performance of consultants and contractors.
6. Issue "stop-work" orders and recommend the issuance of construction completion and final acceptance certificates.
7. Collect and analyze technical data, undertake studies, research, and prepare and present reports.
8. Manage, coordinate, and review utility (electrical power, telephone, data, fibre, and data infrastructure) upgrades or proposed new installation impact on existing infrastructure.
9. Prepare Easement Agreements, Yukon government approvals and land acquisition requests and assist with negotiations with property owners.
10. Prepare proposals and evaluate, award or recommend acceptance or rejection of proposals.
11. Review and recommend the purchase of engineering equipment and software, maintain and update databases, systems, and Models.
12. Provide input into department budget, local improvement bylaws, manuals, servicing standards, operations, and City policies.
13. Liaise and provide technical engineering advice or interpretation with internal departments and external stakeholders (public, consultants, and contractors).
14. Coordinate, assist, or perform survey activities.
15. Recruit, direct, train, and performance manage seasonal (students) staff.
16. Act as Engineering Projects Officer and Manager, Engineering as assigned.
17. Follows, so far as is reasonably practicable, established safety procedures and standards.
18. Other related duties.

Position Requirements:

Number of Hires Needed: 1

Working Conditions:

Works in a normal office environment for 4 months per year during the winter; and exposed to confined spaces, noise, dust, fumes, traffic, extreme temperatures, raw sewage, pumping systems, utility lines, uneven terrain, and construction sites when conducting surveys or preliminary site investigations, or overseeing and inspecting capital projects.

Required Knowledge, Skill, and Abilities:

• Civil Engineering Technology Diploma
• Professional Certification in Engineering Technology
• Previous experience - 5 years related municipal experience including 2 years in a senior capacity
• Standard First Aid, Confined Space Entry, Electrical Hazards, and Trenching Safety Certificates or ability to obtain within 6 months of hire
• Proven project management, decision-making/problem-solving, and interpersonal skills
• Good organizational, prioritizing, and multitasking skills and ability to work unsupervised
• Proven written and oral communication skills
• Ability to foster and maintain effective relationships among peers and/or stakeholders
• Valid Yukon Class 5 Driver's License
• An equivalent combination of education, training, and experience may be considered

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