1. Provides accurate development estimates in support of feasibility assessments and planned development activities.
2. Creates, maintains, reviews and approves designs in collaboration with Architect and Engineer Teams, ensuring alignment to the appropriate codes, principles, industry standards, and best practices of engineering and architecture, taking tradeoffs or alternatives into account.
3. Manages, leads, and provides technical oversight and expertise over engineering, architectural, or landscape architectural designs and construction contracts for paving, streetscape, alley, drainage, flood control, bridge, sidewalk, erosion control, water, utilities, wastewater, trails, parks, pavilions, facilities, terminals, garages, airfields, buildings and any other infrastructure improvement projects.
4. Supervises a team of engineers, project coordinators, architects, landscape architects, and senior project managers to complete planning, design, and construction of infrastructure projects.
5. Applies, implements, and uses engineering, architecture, landscape architecture, surveying, project management principles and technical expertise to support the implementation of capital improvement and public infrastructure projects; participates and supervises the performance of feasibility studies on plan and project implementation.
6. Develops and reviews engineering, architectural or landscape architectural plans for major City projects; ensures that the proposed infrastructure improvements are of good design quality and that the projects are in compliance with City, State and Federal standards.
7. Investigates development activities if discrepancies are detected, identifies and resolves technical debt as appropriate, weighing the development efforts against the value returned, and evaluates code to ensure that the projects are properly structured, meet technical and compliance standards.
8. Manages and guides the bidding process for all assigned construction contracts for team of engineers, project coordinators, architects, landscape architects and/or senior project managers; prepares agenda, factsheet, contract information package for engineering, architectural, landscape architectural and construction contract awards and takes lead role in completing the contract execution; conducts and supervises team of engineers, project coordinators, architects, landscape architects and/or senior project managers that participate in neighborhood meetings to inform the residents about the upcoming project or capital improvement and addresses concerns and questions.
9. Oversees, mentors and coaches teams on relevant architecture, design, development, and operations topics, applying research methodology to solve diverse problems such as investigating material quality or material failures, environmental investigation, quality assurance for contracted design and construction work and improving processes; develops and supervises development of scope of work, evaluates proposals, and negotiates fees for engineering, architectural and/or landscape architectural contracts and for Supplemental Agreements; works with Agenda Coordinators to prepare Council Agendas.
10. Collaborates, engages, and works with consultants, inspectors, contractors, and other agencies within the City and outside, to successfully complete the design and construction of all infrastructure projects; participates in consultant selection, contractor evaluation, and employee hiring or promotion panels; and provides feedback on GFE performance.
11. Performs other work as needed or required.