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Engineering Technicians perform a broad range of duties involving technical engineering work in support of professional engineers including drafting, engineering calculations, surveying, materials and soils testing, construction inspection, roadway design, right-of-way engineering, planning, permitting and inspection, water rights appropriation and land acquisition in support of civil or related professional engineering work. Work requires the application of technical engineering skills, methods and practices in compiling technical data, drafting, computer aided software, operating specialized equipment and preparing engineering related documents.
Under general direction, incumbents function independently at the advanced journey level performing technical work requiring knowledge of engineering theories, principles, concepts and practices in a specialized area.
This position is located within the Materials Division, Las Vegas. This position may have technical or lead worker responsibilities, working alongside and overseeing the field exploration crew. The field exploration crews are primarily tasked with subsurface exploration for the foundation studies and material source investigation related to highway construction. Duties include overseeing the operation and transport of drill rigs, dozer, and excavators, soil, and bedrock sampling, material pit exploration, location of exploration sites and material pit boundaries, as well as stocking and maintaining inventory of supplies, arranging for traffic control and obtaining utility clearances. A class "A" Commercial driver's license is required at time of appointment. Commercial driving duties include driving drill rigs and transport vehicles with transport loads that are typically oversized and overweight. Surveying and other technical skills will be evaluated during the application review process. These skills are utilized to locate borings and test pits and material pit boundaries. Women and under-represented groups are encouraged to apply. Nevada Department of Transportation is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action in recruitment of its employees and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion or belief, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy, genetic information (GINA), or gender identity and expression.
In order to be qualified, you must meet the following requirements:
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Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in civil, mechanical, chemical or metallurgical engineering, mathematics or closely related field and one year of progressively responsible technical engineering work experience involving the coordination of technical engineering work projects, having technical responsibility over a specialized engineering function or program area, serving as leadworker to technical engineering staff, independently determining work priorities, implementing and/or developing work procedures, techniques, standards and controls; OR Associate's degree from an accredited college, university or technical school with major course work in engineering, engineering technology, math or related field and three years of progressively responsible experience as described above; OR graduation from high school or equivalent education and five years of progressively responsible experience as described above; OR two years as an Engineering Technician III in Nevada State service; OR an equivalent combination of education and experience. |
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A valid driver's license is required at the time of appointment and as a condition of continuing employment. |
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Pursuant to NRS 284.4066, this position has been identified as affecting public safety. Persons offered employment in this position must submit to a pre-employment screening for controlled substances. In addition, federal law required random testing for controlled substances during employment. |
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This position requires a Class A Commercial Driver's License at time of appointment and as a condition of continuing employment. |
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The exam will consist of a rating of training and experience weighted 100%. It is essential that applications include extensively detailed information with time frames regarding education and experience. Your score will be based on the information provided in your application and your responses to the questions asked below. If there are several parts to a question, answer each part separately. Along with each answer, identify the position(s) and/or training (as described in your application) where you gained the background asked for in the question. Absence of experience/training asked for in a question is not necessarily disqualifying. Failure to answer the questions will result in a score based solely on the application.
Qualified applicants will be contacted by the hiring agency for interview. |
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1) Describe your experience, including the number of years, training lower level staff in the following:
a) construction inspections; and/or
b) material/soil analysis.
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2) Describe your experience, including the number of years, utilizing
the following:
a) process maps; and/or
b) construction plans.
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3) Describe your experience, including the numbers of years, with use of the following:
a) Public Land Survey System; and/or
b) Modern Survey System.
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4) Describe your experience including number of years, operating and maintaining equipment related to the following:
a) Drilling and underground exploration; and/or
b) Excavating and surface exploration.
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