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Posted: February 26, 2026 (1 day ago)

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Civil Engineer Associate (Promotional)

City of El Paso

Environmental SERVS Admin

Fresh

Location

Salary

$60,532.99 - $90,799.49

per year

Closes

March 4, 2026

Job Description

Summary

This job involves leading a team of engineers to design, review, and oversee public infrastructure projects like roads, bridges, water systems, and parks for the City of El Paso.

You'll handle everything from planning and budgeting to inspecting construction sites and coordinating with other organizations.

It's a great fit for experienced civil engineers who enjoy supervising others and solving real-world community problems.

Key Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or higher in engineering
  • At least two years of civil engineering experience
  • Ability to supervise and direct engineering staff
  • Skills in designing and reviewing civil engineering plans and specifications
  • Experience with project management, including prioritizing tasks and setting deadlines
  • Knowledge of construction inspection, compliance with standards, and environmental laws
  • Proficiency in preparing technical reports, cost estimates, and public presentations

Full Job Description

MOS Code: 32E1A (Air Force); 47R (Army); 55 (Coast Guard); 0530 (Marine Corps); 510 SC (Navy)

Education and Experience: A Bachelor's degree or higher in engineering, and two (2) years civil engineering experience.

Licenses and Certificates: None.

Requirements

Under general supervision, supervise, direct, design and review civil engineering plans and specifications.

Qualifications

Direct, supervise, and design engineering plans and specifications prepared in-house, and review those prepared by private consultants and contract workers.

Involves: Prioritize engineering projects and set deadlines.

Plan, design, review and direct the development of civil engineering projects such as, bridge, street, roads and irrigation systems, drainage improvement, sewer and water construction, storm water management, telecommunication projects, park facilities, play courts, buildings, and other public works projects.

Prepare computations, draft and design plans and specifications.

Review construction plans to identify need for relocation of existing or proposed water, sewer and utility lines, design problems and compliance to standards, including compliance of projects with environmental protection laws.

Conduct studies of water supply requirements. Make recommendations for changes to plans and specifications. Identify required materials, evaluate costs and prepare estimates.

Coordinate projects with entities such as the Army Corps of Engineers and utility companies. Provide technical support to other City departments.

Prepare presentations and represent the City in public hearings, City Planning Commission and other special group meetings.

Review and inspect subdivision plans, specifications, proposals and structures prepared by private consultants and contract workers.

Involves: Assign and supervise the inspection of construction projects under contract. Prepare surveys, easement correspondence, and legal descriptions and calculate metes and bounds.

Inspect workmanship, materials and equipment used in construction of engineering projects.

Supervise and conduct field inspections of projects designed by City staff, or related to engineering issues such as drainage problems, compliance with construction standards, and right-of-way access.

Enforce safety rules and regulations. Maintain records, and review and prepare technical reports.

Supervise assigned staff. Involves: Schedule, assign, instruct in, guide and check work. Appraise employee performance.

Provide for training and development; enforce personnel rules and regulations, and work behavior standards. Counsel, motivate and maintain harmony. Interview applicants.

Recommend hiring, discipline, merit pay or other employee status changes.

Additional Information

For complete job specification, click here.

Note: Applicants with a foreign diplomas, transcripts and degrees must have all documents translated and evaluated by an agency of the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) prior to submitting them to the Human Resources Department. Please visit www.naces.org/membersfor more information.

Note: Applicants are encouraged to apply immediately. This position will close when a preset number of qualified applications have been received.

Important Note: The required Supplemental Questions and answers are considered an examination component and will generate a score.

Applicants are being tested on a conditional basis pending review of minimum qualifications. Applications will be reviewed for applicants who pass the Supplemental Questions examination.

Per CSC Rules & Regulations, after review of the minimum qualifications for applicants that pass the Supplemental Questions examination, a passing score, combined with applicable seniority points and veteran points, will be used to create a list of candidates.

Please note: This recruitment is limited to City of El Paso employees presently working in the Environmental Services Department only.

A résumé and/or other documents will not be accepted in lieu of a completed application. Comments such as “See résumé” are not acceptable and will result in the application being considered incomplete.

To qualify for this position, required education, experience, knowledge and skills must be clearly stated on your application’s employment history. We do not use any information on your resume to review if you meet the minimum qualifications for this position.

Failure to fully detail all experience and job duties in the application, or copying/pasting directly from the job specification, or responses referring to your résumé will eliminate you from consideration for the position.

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Posted on NEOGOV: 2/26/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 2/27/2026

Source: NEOGOV | ID: neogov-elpaso-5249379