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The City of Rapid City Public Works Department is a multi-faceted department tasked with

providing development engineering, street maintenance and repair, water treatment and reclamation, solid waste management, public transit systems, and GIS mapping services. It is the mission of Public Works to use our resources effectively to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the community by providing safe and reliable drinking water, wastewater treatment, drainage, solid waste management, public transit, transportation systems, and GIS services.

Please visit the Public Works website for more information.

This is your opportunity to live and work in one of the most beautiful places in the world! Considered the "Gateway to the Black Hills", Rapid City boasts a thriving community of 70,000+ with close proximity to world-class recreation and convenient lifestyle amenities with downtown shopping and restaurants. The City of Rapid City offers fantastic benefits including employer-paid health insurance premiums, 6% employer-matching retirement, and generous vacation and sick leave time off.

The City of Rapid City Public Works Department currently has the following openings:

Engineering Project Engineer

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The position's primary function is to support the Water, Water Reclamation and Solid Waste Divisions in meeting their daily and overall operational goals. The Engineering Project Engineer performs Civil Engineering analysis, design, contract administration and management of City infrastructure projects and programs. This Engineering Project Engineer role will be responsible for assigned project management in the Water, Water Reclamation, and Solid Waste Divisions within the Public Works Department. This position will report directly to the Assistant Public Works Director.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support the Water, Water Reclamation and Solid Waste Divisions in meeting their daily and overall operational goals.
• Manages design or construction of infrastructure projects and
• programs.
• Manages consultants and contractors.
• Develops projects for the Capital Improvement Plan.
• Coordinates with other Public Works Divisions, City Departments, and other agencies.
• Interprets intent of ordinances, statutes and laws of the City of Rapid City and State of South Dakota and monitors compliance of same.
• Participates in the consultant selection process and supervises their designs and construction plan preparation.
• Provides technical information to other City departments and the general public.
• Assumes applicable duties of Operations Management Engineer for specific facility management projects.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support the Water, Water Reclamation and Solid Waste Divisions in meeting their daily and overall operational goals.

• Manages design or construction of infrastructure projects and programs.

• Manages consultants and contractors.

• Develops projects for the Capital Improvement Plan.

• Coordinates with other Public Works Divisions, City Departments, and other agencies.

• Interprets intent of ordinances, statutes and laws of the City of Rapid City and State of South Dakota and monitors compliance of same.

• Participates in the consultant selection process and supervises their designs and construction plan preparation.

• Provides technical information to other city departments and the general public.

• Assumes applicable duties of  Operations Management Engineer for specific facility management projects.

About You:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty successfully. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Our ideal candidate will possess:

• Project management experience in the Water, Water Reclamation, and Solid Waste industries is desired but not mandatory.
• The ability to project manage cross-functional teams.
• Professional verbal and written communication skills.
• The ability to multi-task and focus in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent project management, time management and organizational skills.

Staff Engineer

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The Staff Engineer will assist the  City Engineer in providing technical services related to City of Pierre infrastructure projects. This position also assists Building Officials in plan review and issuing Building Permits.  Duties include project feasibility analysis, municipal infrastructure project design & review and construction project administration.

Qualification

• Skill in Civil Engineering design, project management, and computer applications (MS Office, CAD design and drafting, GIS/ArcView).  
• Professional Engineer licensure within 2 years of employment preferred.  
• B.S in Civil Engineering or a related field with a minimum 2 years of related experience.  
• Excellent communications skills and a clear ability to work with diverse individuals and organizations is essential.

Salary: $71,365 minimum

To Apply:  City of Pierre, PO Box 1253, Pierre SD  57501, (605)773-7429; www.cityofpierre.org

Position Open until Filled

 

EOE

The City of Sioux Falls has announced three job openings. The first opening is for a Principal Engineer to direct, coordinate and exercise highly technical functional authority for planning, organization, control, integration and completion of engineering projects. This position will focus on the City's storm drainage system. The City also has two openings at the Civil Engineer/PE level. One position will focus on engineering and project coordination for the City's construction projects. The other position will focus on water distribution engineering, as well as engineering support for the City's Light and Power division. Click on the links below for additional information.

Principal Engineer

Civil Engineer/PE (Two Positions)

 

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