PRINCIPAL ENGINEERING CLERK
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Qualifying turns on 3 years of relevant experience.
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Principal Engineering Clerk is a local service title. It is filled by the counties, municipalities, authorities and other employers that have adopted civil service under Title 11A, not by State departments. Those employers set pay by ordinance or contract rather than from a State salary schedule, which is why most local titles carry no salary range here.
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Official job specification
The text below is the official specification published by the New Jersey Civil Service Commission. The plain-language summary and analysis above are derived from it by NJ Civil Service Navigator. Source: the official specification page at NJ CSC.
Definition
Under direction, performs highly responsible and varied clerical work involved in the completion, checking, and transcription of records used in an engineering unit and exercises independent judgment and/or has charge of a small engineering clerical unit; does related work as required.
Examples of work
- Organizes assigned work and develops effective work methods.
- Prepares specifications and plans for local improvements showing type of improvement, quantities, properties, and assessable frontage.
- Prepares cost sheets of local improvements.
- Interviews persons at the office and schedules appointments for engineers.
- Supervises the work of clerks and/or engineering clerks.
- Prepares requisitions for materials.
- Compiles data and statistics.
- Prepares reports.
- Establishes and maintains essential records and files.
- Will be required to learn to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and computerized information systems used by the agency, office, or related units.
Experience
Three (3) years of experience in clerical work.
License
Appointees will be required to possess a driver's license valid in New Jersey only if the operation of a vehicle, rather than employee mobility, is necessary to perform the essential duties of the position.
Knowledge, skills and abilities
- Knowledge of modern office methods, practices, routines, and equipment.
- Knowledge of procedures used to compile and check records and plans.
- Ability to comprehend established routines and regulations and to apply them to specific situations in accord with established procedures.
- Ability to maintain essential records and files.
- Ability to prepare requisitions, cost sheets, and other documents and forms used by the agency.
- Ability to compile, check, and transcribe records and plans.
- Ability prepare clear, sound, accurate, and informative reports containing findings, conclusions, and recommendations.
- Ability to learn to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and information systems used by the agency, office, or related units.
- Ability to read, write, speak, understand, or communicate in English sufficiently to perform the duties of this position. American Sign Language or Braille may also be considered as acceptable forms of communication.
- Persons with mental or physical disabilities are eligible as long as they can perform the essential functions of the job after reasonable accommodation is made to their known limitations. If the accommodation cannot be made because it would cause the employer undue hardship, such persons may not be eligible.
- CODES: LG- CAH/hw 2/11/97
- This job specification is for local government use only.
Note
The definition and examples of work for this title are for illustrative purposes only. A particular position using this title may not perform all duties listed in this job specification. Conversely, all duties performed on the job may not be listed.