About this role
For those who desire an energetic and supportive work environment in the heart of the Peninsula, the City of San Bruno is a progressive organization offering an exceptional career opportunity.
Why Join San Bruno Public Works?
Are you ready to engineer great things in San Bruno? Join the City of San Bruno as our next Senior Civil Engineer and help deliver the infrastructure improvements that keep our community vibrant and thriving.
The City is looking for one Senior Civil Engineer in the Engineering Section to join our collaborative and dynamic Public Works team. With a wide variety of Capital Improvement Projects underway, this is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys staying engaged, working with others, and adapting as priorities and needs evolve.
As a Senior Civil Engineer, you’ll lead capital projects from planning and design through construction, supervise and support engineering staff, and collaborate with colleagues across the City. You’ll also work closely with consultants, contractors, agencies, residents, and businesses to keep projects moving forward and deliver meaningful improvements.
We’re looking for someone who brings engineering experience, leadership, flexibility, and a collaborative mindset—someone who can adapt to changing priorities, support their team, and contribute ideas in a busy and evolving environment.
If you enjoy teamwork, variety, and seeing your projects come to life, we’d love to have you join our team!
What You Will Do?
The Senior Civil Engineer will plan, organize, direct and supervise the work of staff involved in complex, professional engineering work in support of a wide range of complex Public Works projects and initiatives; direct the work of subordinate professional, sub- or paraprofessional, journey-level class and technical engineering staff; assist in the administration and supervision of the Engineering Section.
Senior Civil Engineer duties and responsibilities:
• Recommend and assist in the implementation of goals and objectives; establish schedules and methods for Public Works; implement policies and procedures. • Plan, prioritize, assign, supervise and review the work of staff assigned to Public Works. • Evaluate operations and activities of assigned responsibilities; recommend improvements and modifications; prepare various reports on operations and activities. • Act as project manager for major capital improvements projects, which includes contract administration; project schedule coordination; manage the work of consultants and staff; coordinate the work of consultants, utilities, staff, other public agencies, elected officials, and the public; communicate with the consultants, staff, public, other agencies, and elected officials; ensure quality control of the project, including conducting field inspections; prepare and present a variety of reports and studies. • Plan, coordinate, and supervise responsible engineering work in connection with municipal Public Works projects; manage the design and preparation of plans, specifications, and cost estimates for the construction of streets, storm drains, signals, parks, sanitary sewer system, building and other improvements; make feasibility and economic studies of alternative plans. • Supervise, plan, organize, and direct the activities of an assigned staff; assign, review and evaluate the work of assigned staff for accuracy, suitability, and completeness. • Supervise staff reviewing a wide variety of engineering projects, including planning and studies; conduct surveys; investigate complaints; and present written and oral reports to elected and appointed officials. • Assist in evaluating the need for, and developing plans and schedules for long-range engineering and public works projects. • Participate in the development of capital improvement projects for compliance with City specifications; resolves disputes between the City and developers, contractors, engineers and the general public relative to City policies, specifications, regulations, procedures and extra work. • Decide on design procedures and interpret the application of design criteria; check plans and specification for accuracy of design and completeness. • Interpret and apply relevant codes, ordinances, rules and regulations. • Direct and manage the inspection of public works and land development projects for conformance to established plans and specifications. • Provide continuing technical assistance to staff; supervises and participates in the work of lower-level engineering staff in preparation of project plans, agreements, specifications, cost estimates and contract administration for capital projects. • Assist in the preparation, coordination and control of the operating and capital improvement budgets; assist in evaluating the need for and developing plans and schedules for long-range Public Works projects. • Coordinate projects with other departments, divisions, sections, or teams, consultants, developers and/or property owners; give presentations to elected and appointed officials; respond to citizen inquiries and complaints and takes appropriate action. • Track new or pending regulatory requirements that affect the Public Works Department and provides support to meet these requirements (e.g., nonpoint and point discharge, drinking water quality, water conservation, air, and groundwater contamination). • Monitor inter-governmental actions affecting Public Works.
This recruitment is being conducted to fill one Senior Civil Engineer vacancy and may be used to fill future full-time vacancies as they occur during the active status of the employment list.
Compensation
The annual salary range for this position is $140,730 to $172,693. The City is proud to offer a competitive total compensation package with the following highlights:
• Wellness-focused schedule and paid time off (PTO) program
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• 4-day workweek (Monday through Thursday, 9-hours per day) with a 3-day weekend every week.
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• Approximately 80 to 184 hours of vacation per year, dependent on years of service.
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• 96 hours of sick leave per year and over 10 paid holidays.
• 80 hours of management leave.
• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision plan with choice of HMO or PPO program for employee and eligible dependents.
• Defined benefit retirement program through CalPERS (Classic-2.7%@55 or New/PEPRA-2.0%@62). More information is available at CalPERS.
• Deferred Compensation Section 457b plan and City match
• Education assistance including tuition reimbursement
• Employee home loan assistance program
The City provides a comprehensive total compensation package. For a listing of employee benefits, please see the Mid-Management column in the document linked here.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted online at the City’s BambooHR page. Applications must be received by 5:00 pm on September 10, 2026. You are encouraged to apply as soon as possible before the recruitment is closed.
The City of San Bruno utilizes a merit-based selection system. Such a system is competitive and based on broad outreach efforts and equal opportunity for qualified applicants to take part in a process designed to determine the qualifications, fitness, and ability of competitors to perform duties of the position.
What happens next?
• We will review your application and all supplemental materials to select the best qualified applicants to continue in the process. Screening will include a review of minimum qualifications, application appraisal rating of education, training and experience and relevance of background qualifications related to the target job as well as supplemental questions if applicable.
• Applicants selected to move forward in the process may be asked to participate in any combination of the following (at any phase of the selection process): a written examination, job related exercise, physical test or job simulation, phone interview, in-person or video interview(s), and/or web-based testing.
• The final phase of the selection process is the probationary period, which in most cases is one year, depending on your classification.
Reasonable Accommodations: The City of San Bruno is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) and provides equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, creed, age, physical or mental disability, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws in its employment actions, decisions, policies and practices.
The City of San Bruno Human Resources Department will make reasonable efforts in the selection process to accommodate disabled applicants. Individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation in the process must inform the Human Resources Department by the final filing date by emailing [email protected].
$140,730 to $172,693