Under general supervision, is in charge of the civil engineering condition assessments, program planning and other functions necessary to develop a continuous capital improvement program for a city department.

• Plans and supervises the work of a moderately large group of subordinate engineers and drafting technicians engaged in performing fundamental condition assessments, feasibility studies of alternate methods of solving specific civil engineering problems; and preparing capital program priorities, budgets, and estimates of costs for projects.
• Prepares policies for carrying out work.
• Assigns, reviews and approves the work of subordinates.
• Instructs and advises workers on the more difficult phases of work.
• Proposes a variety of construction, reconstruction, maintenance and capital improvement initiatives.
• Assesses the conditions of pavements through ratings and more intensive analyses.
• Investigates and analyzes pavements by destructive and non-destructive methods.
• Manages a database of pavement conditions, develops maps of pavement conditions and proposed methods of maintenance repairs, improvements, construction and reconstruction.
• Prepares special studies and reports relative to matters such as alternate solutions and estimates of materials and costs.