Principal Engineering Technician - Water Services Department

Phoenix is the 5th largest city in the country and the vibrant center of one of the fastest-growing job markets and economies in the United States. With more than 14,000 employees working across 35 departments, the city of Phoenix offers opportunity for career growth and advancement. Whether you're an experienced professional or just starting your career, working in public service offers many rewards! Please join us in our mission as we attract, develop, support, and retain a talented workforce so they can provide exceptional services to our community. The City of Phoenix Water Services Department (WSD), one of the nation's largest potable water utilities, treats and delivers safe, reliable drinking water to 1.5 million customers across approximately 540 square miles. Phoenix Water Services also manages the sewer collection system and treats wastewater for 2.5 million residents in metropolitan Phoenix.

The Water Services Department is seeking a Principal Engineering Technician. This position performs technical civil engineering work of average difficulty, and the work is performed under the general supervision of a professional engineer who makes assignments and reviews finished work for compliance with standards and schedules.

This position requires:

• Communicating orally with other employees, plan holders, and the public by telephone and in a one-to-one, face-to-face setting.
• Reading and interpreting water and right-of-way quarter-section maps, engineering drawings, and specifications for construction control purposes.
• Researching records and files for accurate information regarding construction drawings.
• Reviewing and checking the design specifications and shop drawings of both City and other municipality projects to ensure conformance to standards.

• Knowledge of principles of managing, operating, and maintaining water distribution, water treatment, wastewater treatment, wastewater collection systems, facilities, and infrastructure
• Knowledge of principles and practices of civil engineering and inspection standards for distribution pipeline installation in the right of way, including city plumbing codes, MAG standards, and City supplements.
• Ability to extract and manipulate data, create spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel. Knowledge of utility asset management principles and practices.

Pay Range: $61,526.40 - $110,510.40 annually.

Hiring Range: $61,526.40 - $95,451.20 annually.

Pay Range Explanation:

• Pay range is the entire compensation range for the position classification.
• Hiring range is an estimate of where you can receive an offer. The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, education, licenses, training, and internal equity.

A comprehensive benefits package is offered which includes:

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• 401(a) and 457 plans with employer contributions
• Choice of generous medical HMO, PPO, or HSA/HDHP plans
• Medical enrollment includes a monthly $150 City contribution to a Post-Employment Health Plan
• Wellness incentive of up to $720 annually
• Dental, vision, and life insurance options
• Employer paid long-term disability
• Free Bus/light rail pass
• Tuition reimbursement program up to $6,500 per year
• Paid time off includes 13.5 paid holidays, 12 vacation days, and 15 sick days and personal leave days
• Paid Parental Leave for eligible employees up to 480 hours (12 weeks) of paid leave for the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child during a 12-month period
• Federal Student Loan Forgiveness offered through Savi

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• Six years of experience in paraprofessional engineering work, including three years of paraprofessional civil engineering experience (or one year of experience at the level of Chief Engineering Technician, or Chief Drafting Technician).
• Other combinations of experience and education that meet the minimum requirements may be substituted.
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The minimum qualifications listed above, plus:

• A minimum of 3 years of water and wastewater plan review design, construction, inspection, and operation experience.
• Review or design experience in grading and drainage.
• Experience or training in performing civil plan reviews.
• Experience with City Code and Zoning guidelines.

Recruitment closes March 27, 2024. All materials must be received by 11:59 p.m. on this date.

This is a position-based recruitment and will not result in any ongoing eligibility list.This recruitment and any selection processes resulting from this recruitment may be used to fill other related vacancies within the organization now or in the near future.

Apply online by completing the required information and attaching, as one document, your cover letter and resume. Please include your experience as it relates to the qualifications stated above. Only the highest qualified may be posted to the eligible to hire list. The results of the resume screening process will be sent to your primary email address.

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