Responsible for all construction taking place at both the Highway 59 and Billy Wright Landfills. This includes assisting with the planning, design, estimating cost, hiring contractor, filing for building permits with Merced County, monitoring contract, working with contractor in the field to maintain quality control, inspection, payments and closing out project. Other duties include, tracking the use of airspace at both landfill sites using Trimble R10 GPS system, an eBee Sensefly Plus drone, eMotion 3, Pix4D, Microsoft Office and Autodesk Civil 3d software, operation and maintenance of gas collection system at the Hwy 59 site, on-call for gas flare shutdown and other responsibilities to numerous to list.

Performed a variety of responsible field and office engineering duties including: assisting in the design and preparation of plans and specifications for various road and bridge construction projects, preparing construction estimates, performing engineering design and calculations on a wide variety of public works projects and making recommendations of engineering problems, preparing and checking legal descriptions for inclusion in legal documents, performing inspection of construction work in progress, acted as Survey Party Chief on all county projects and serve as project leader on assigned projects.

Office duties included researching projects and compiling office calc’s in preparation for staking a variety of construction projects including shopping centers, office complexes and numerous subdivisions. Field duties consisted of leading a two man survey crew while completing boundary surveys, topographical surveys, construction staking and maintaining good client relationships while in the field. Fieldwork was completed using a Topcon GTS-312 Total Station and a HP-48 Data Collector with TDS software.

Time was spent evenly between the office and field. Worked on all aspects of civil projects including researching projects, gathering field data as part of a two man survey crew, drawing topography maps and minor design work. Office duties also included drafting for the Architectural Department using Microstation, limited computer hardware and software maintenance and troubleshooting. Fieldwork consisted of boundary surveys, ALTA surveys, topographical surveys and construction staking. Equipment and software used consisted of Topcon GTS-3B Total Station, AutoCAD and Softdesk.