Project Management: This position allows the successful candidate develop and improve project management skills. The position will require project management, consultant management, and possibly some construction management. It will also require interfacing with other agencies and development of council/board and other report documents.

Public Sector Experience: The selected candidate will gain key public sector experience that can effectively positioning the candidate to go after and obtain key, sought-after public sector jobs.

Working under a senior engineer, the Associate Pubic Works Engineer will assist a local municipality. The principal duties will be federal grant facilitation, assisting senior engineers in the planning, design, construction and maintenance of public works projects such as streets, parks, parking lots, drainage facilities, catch basins, traffic signals, public buildings and facilities and water systems and sanitary sewer systems.

Duties could include managing a small design staff, assisting in planning and development of CIP projects and programs, preparation of RFPs and the selection and management of consultants and review of work product submitted by consultants. Technical duties would include preparing preliminary cost estimates of major public works projects; specifications, reports, correspondence, plans, plats, petitions, diagrams, profiles, cross-sections, and material and cost estimates for engineering projects. Other duties would include coordinating activities with regulatory branches of state and federal government; preparing budget for engineering projects; ensures proper inspection of public works construction projects; designs elements for landscape and streetscape projects; and other tasks and required.