Utilities Senior Design Technician

How You Can Help Us Make a Difference

Bring data to life and help shape the infrastructure of our community! This role performs professional, technical, and analytical work creating, maintaining, and editing maps and geospatial data for a wide range of engineering projects. You'll work with GIS, AutoCAD, and related software to manage geodatabases, prepare detailed maps, drainage designs, legal descriptions, and presentation exhibits, while ensuring accuracy and consistency with established standards. The position also supports project planning, supervises field data collection, and provides exceptional customer service by assisting the public and other departments with archival drawings, plans, and technical information.

Your Purpose & Day-To-Day Journey

Education and Experience: An equivalent combination of relevant training, education and experience:

• Associate Degree
• Preferred: Geography, Computer Science, Planning, Civil Engineering
• Four (4) years of experience in GIS, computer aided drafting and design, mapping

Licenses and/or Certificates: N/A

Education & Credentials That Power This Role

In this role, you can expect to apply a strong blend of technical expertise and analytical thinking while working closely with engineering, GIS, and database systems. You'll use industry-standard software and tools to develop and analyze spatial data, interpret civil engineering plans and hydrologic information, and support public works and utilities projects from planning through implementation. The position calls for organized, detail-oriented work, clear written and verbal communication, and the ability to manage priorities and deadlines while maintaining accurate records. You'll collaborate with internal teams, assist external customers, and use sound judgment, resourcefulness, and professionalism to solve complex problems and support informed decision-making across the department.

Extra Details You Should Know

PHYSICAL DEMANDS Walking, sitting, hearing, seeing up close, talking, standing, finger movement, repetitive motions. Dependent upon position assignment, may frequently lift up to 25 pounds and occasionally up to 50 pounds. WORK ENVIRONMENT Work is primarily performed in an indoor, climate-controlled environment and is nearly absent from disagreeable elements (e.g., irate customers, extreme noise, heat, odors, heights and/or dust). RISK/SAFETY CONDITIONS There is little or no risk related to physical and/or mental health and safety associated with this position. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the essential job functions satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary job functions herein described. Since every duty associated with this position may not be described herein, employees may be required to perform duties not specifically spelled out in the job description, but which may be reasonably considered to be incidental in the performing of their duties just as though they were actually written out in this job description.

Charlotte County is an Affirmative Action/ADA/Veterans' Preference and Equal Opportunity Employer. Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities are Encouraged to Apply.

EMERGENCY RESPONSE/RECOVERY ACTIVITIES:

All County employees are required to work before, during, or after an emergency as needed. This may include temporarily being assigned to work and performing duties outside of the normal scope of their position, location and work schedule to fit the needs of the County and its citizens.

Charlotte County is an Affirmative Action, ADA and Equal Opportunity Employer. Women, minorities, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. As a veterans' preference employer, certain service members and veterans, and the spouses and family members of such service members and veterans, who claim and meet eligibility requirements of veterans' preference, receive preference and priority in employment and are encouraged to apply. In addition, certain servicemembers may be eligible to receive waivers for postsecondary educational requirements.

All positions with Charlotte County may be subject to drug testing in accordance with the Drug-Free Workplace Program and/or County policy.

Charlotte County Board of County Commissioners offers a comprehensive benefits package to regular full-time employees. Charlotte County Benefits & Total Rewards