SUPERVISING ENGINEERING AIDE
In New Jersey, Supervising Engineering Aide is filled through the competitive process: candidates take a civil service exam and are hired off a ranked list, not picked at will.
Qualifying takes a bachelor's degree and 5 years of relevant experience.
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Supervising Engineering Aide is used at one independent authority, New Jersey Transit Corporation.
Independent authorities
| Employer | Employees |
|---|---|
| New Jersey Transit Corporation | 2 |
Where this title is used
Supervising Engineering Aide 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, supervises and coordinates activity of an engineering aide unit and performs highly responsible field and office tasks involved in surveying and/or inspecting construction operations; does other related duties as required.
Examples of work
- Supervises and coordinates field crews including taking attendance, issuing work assignments, and assigning workers to specific crews.
- Reassigns personnel and crews as needed.
- Reviews survey field books for completeness/accuracy.
- Makes field visits to survey parties to determine progress of work conditions, problems, and productivity.
- Assumes responsibility for field books, their indexing, and maintenance of field book street indexes.
- Assumes responsibility for survey office and its maintenance.
- Supervises performance rating of survey personnel.
- May assist field engineers in preparing building set-ups and making form inspections.
- Maintains status reports on present/proposed survey work in a filing system.
- Maintains an inventory of equipment.
- Requisitions survey supplies as needed.
- Will be required to learn to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and information systems used by the agency, office, or related units.
Experience
Five (5) years of engineering experience involving the performance of inspections, surveys, tests, drafting, mathematical computations, or other engineering work., one (1) year of which shall have been a supervisory capacity.
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 essential duties of the position.
Knowledge, skills and abilities
- Knowledge of characteristics and properties of materials used in road and other engineering construction activities.
- Knowledge of procedures involved in making routine inspections.
- Knowledge of the use of engineering instruments and other apparatus used in road and other types of engineering work.
- Knowledge of problems involved in making mathematical calculations.
- Knowledge of the proper use of the transit, plan table, and level.
- Knowledge of procedures for preparing estimates of contract progress.
- Knowledge of basic supervisory techniques.
- Ability to organize assigned work and develop effective work methods.
- Ability to give assignments and instructions to engineering aides.
- Ability to prepare reports.
- Ability to maintain records and files.
- Ability 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, and communicate in English sufficiently to perform 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 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.
Note
The 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.
Possession of a Bachelor's degree in Engineering from an accredited college or university may be substituted for four (4) years of indicated nonsupervisory experience.