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Chesapeake Water Environment Association Title:
Engineering Support Technician II - Public Works, Utilities, Water & Sewer Panning Division
Post Date
6/24/2025
Expiration Date
7/8/2025
Details:
Engineering Support Technician II - Public Works, Utilities, Water & Sewer Panning Division
SALARY $29.29 - $56.47 Hourly
$60,923.00 - $117,458.00 Annually
LOCATION Columbia, MD
JOB TYPE Full Time
JOB NUMBER 25-00727
DEPARTMENT Public Works
DIVISION DPW - Utilities
OPENING DATE 06/24/2025
CLOSING DATE 7/8/2025 11:59 PM Eastern
POSITION SUMMARY/CLASS DESCRIPTION
Howard County:
Conveniently located in the heart of central Maryland between Baltimore and Washington. Howard County offers the charm of a historic past mixed with the excitement of a cosmopolitan community.
Howard County Government:
Howard County Government is a leader in innovation, best practices and sustainability. It is consistently ranked as one of the best places to live and work in the country. In 2024, Howard County Government received a record-breaking 63 Achievement Awards from the National Association of Counties (NACo) – the most awards in the state of Maryland, and the fifth highest in the nation, as compared to more than 3000 counties. NACo Achievement Awards are the premier national honor to recognize innovative and transformative programs that provide new services for county residents, improve existing programs, upgrade working conditions, and enhance citizen participation and public policy making.
What are we looking for?
We are looking for outstanding individuals to join our team and contribute to excellence in Howard County operations.
What you'll like most about working at Howard County Government:
We are committed to workplace excellence in every area of County government.
We have a highly talented, diverse, and inclusive workplace. Your input will not only be heard, but it will be encouraged!
We offer competitive compensation and great benefits including medical, retirement, and wellness programs.
As a member of the Howard County Government team, you'll be helping drive our culture and directly impact what makes us an amazing place to work.
POSITION SUMMARY:
This position provides technical level engineering support to the Bureau of Utilities, Water & Sewer Planning Division, performs GIS mapping and asset management support for the Bureau's utility, and assists in planning, operation, maintenance and asset management functions. Performs the development, maintenance, update and advancement of the bureau's GIS infrastructure for water and sewer utility assets. Provide support for GIS applications and assists the development of high level online and mobile tools to streamline the bureau's GIS and other workflow. Works with Asset Managers and ensures GIS is an integral part of the new Asset Management Software. Assists the development and implementation of GIS data standards, workflows, and quality control procedures.
STARTING SALARY HIRING RANGE:
$29.29 - $33.05
$60,923 - $68,744
CLASS DESCRIPTION:
Performs advanced technical level engineering support work, which may include supervisory responsibility, under the general supervision from a technical superior. Work includes technical land acquisition work such as negotiating the acquisition of rights-of-way and fee simple parcels; preparing legal and administrative documents used in land acquisition and condemnation proceedings; and preparing and executing contracts, deeds, and agreements. Work may also include planning, coordinating, and reviewing the work of a survey crew acquiring hydrographic and topographic data.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
Provides technical assistance to the lead GIS Analyst that administers the Bureau's water and sewer utilities geodatabase. Assists in the implementation and maintenance of the Bureau's water and sewer GIS system including providing technical assistance in digitizing, geocoding, field data collection and other spatial location techniques for water and sewer construction and maintenance record data.
Provides GIS database management of the existing water and sewer records and ensuring up-to-date accuracy of all water and sewer maps.
Provides technical assistance and support to the Bureau's Maintenance Division which includes implementing and maintaining up-to-date linking of the lnfor/Hansen work order maintenance and asset management database with the GIS mapping system.
Provides assistance in ensuring that all generated and completed work orders issued by the field maintenance staff are properly logged into the database, and in the proper coding of all work order activities enabling field maintenance staff to review work histories associated with various water and sewer pipeline and appurtenance segments.
Provides periodic summary of work order activity reports.
Provides technical support in utilizing GIS technology to meet the Bureau's water and sewer facility planning, operation and maintenance needs, and recommends cost-effective GIS-based solutions.
Provides support to Departmental GIS users. Support includes special map creation, data layer development, analysis, etc.
Aids in the development of training procedures and provides on-site training for all Bureau of Utilities maintenance staff for proper utilization of the GIS and Infer/Hansen database.
Develops, documents and implements geodatabase quality assurance and quality control procedures.
Posts and reconciles versions within the geodatabase and assigns data maintenance tasks.
Provides mentorship to GIS and CAD technicians and interns.
Supports GIS data creation, conversion and manipulation as needed.
Performs spatial analysis utilizing ArcGIS technology to distill results into formats ready for use by engineering and non-technical field operations staff.
Evaluates new software and tools.
Assists maintenance and/or troubleshoot network and workstation hardware, software and telecommunication services.
Develops maps and application tools to assist the bureau's maintenance and operations staff to make data flow seamlessly and display in mapping applications.
Supports the county's Lead/Copper Program with GIS data and review.
Manages critical water users list and data and develops SOP for its yearly update program.
This position is considered emergency essential, and, as such, the incumbent will be required to report for regular work shift during inclement weather, or when an emergency arises.
Qualifications:
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:
This job has no supervisory responsibilities however, it performs team leader duties.
MINIMUM REQUIRED EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE
Associates degree and one (1) year related experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
PREFERRED EDUCATION, KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
Associates degree from an accredited college or university in GIS, computer science, information technology, engineering or related field and three (3) years' experience in the field of water and sewer distribution and collection systems maintenance, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Considerable knowledge of GIS water/sewer mapping systems.
Direct experience with work order maintenance and asset management database systems.
Knowledge of a basic understanding of network topologies and protocols.
Experience reading engineering as-built drawings and plans. Hands-on knowledge with PCs, laptops and fileservers.
Familiarity with working knowledge of ESRI Enterprise and ESRI SDE data sets, ArcGIS Pro, ArcSDE and other desktop GIS applications such as QGIS, ArcMap, Maplnfo. Experience in programming SQL, HTML, Python and JavaScript.
Ability to adapt to frequent changes in workload and priorities.
Experience and ability to work with design consultants, private utility contractors, and in-house maintenance staff. Strong organizational skills.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to pe1form the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk and hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear; and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 15 pounds. The employee will occasionally be required to work in the field. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, color perception and ability to adjust focus.
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The work environment includes both office work and occasional field data collection in a variety of localities and weather conditions.
The noise level in the work environment varies from quiet in the office to moderate in the field.
LANGUAGE SKILLS, MATHEMATICAL SKILLS AND REASONING ABILITY:
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret documents such as technical instruction manuals, construction drawings, deeds, and plats.
Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community.
Ability to effectively present information before groups of customers or employees of organization. Strong attention to detail and organization. Active follow through with tasks and excellent written and oral communication skills.
Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in oral, written, mathematical, diagram, and schedule form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
CERTIFICATES, LICENSES AND REGISTRATIONS
Class C Maryland Driver's License, or equivalent issued by state of residence.
Comments:
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
TO APPLY: You must complete an employment application online to be considered for this recruitment. Resumes cannot be substituted for completion of the job application work history. No paper applications will be accepted.
Selected candidates may be subject to drug screening, background screening, and reference checks.
At time of application, please submit a copy of any college degree, coursework, licenses, or certifications that you have referenced on your application. Applicants who have education obtained outside of the U.S. may need to provide proof of the equivalent U.S. education as determined by a foreign credential evaluation service, such as the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (http://www.naces.org) or World Education Services: International Credential Evaluation (https://www.wes.org/).
Howard County Government is not sponsoring employees in application of the H-1B Visa or providing an extension of an existing H-1B Visa. All applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.
Howard County is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, and we are committed to a workplace that values diversity, equity, and inclusion. The County prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, ancestry, creed, national origin, disability status, genetics, marital status, military service, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Applicants requiring accommodations during the hiring process should contact the Office of Human Resources directly at HiringPreference@howardcountymd.gov. Requests for accommodations should not be attached to the application.
Employer
Howard County Government
Address
3430 Court House Drive
Ellicott City, Maryland, 21043
Phone
410-313-2033
Website
https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/howardcounty
Employer:
Howard County Government
Website:
https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/howardcounty/jobs/4983210-0/engineering-support-technician-ii-public-works-utilities-water-sewer-pannin