STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
HUMAN RESOURCES


CLASSIFICATION:  ENGINEERING AIDE II

 

Class Code:  4082-08                                      Date Established:  07-01-50           

 

Occupational Code:  5-2-2                              Date of Last Revision:  12-28-01

 

BASIC PURPOSE:  To perform routine and semi-technical work in the field, office or laboratory in connection with the investigation, location, design and maintenance of highways.

 

CHARACTERISTIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

 

·        Maintains and relocates traffic recording instruments, and performs speed and vehicle classification counts.

 

·        Operates the transit and level on routine surveys in training to develop technical competency and skill.

 

·        Plots cross sections, profiles and field notes and makes tracings on the notes.

 

·        Records topographic survey data.

 

·        Prepares semi-technical work in the laboratory involving testing of highway materials and prepares reports on the results.

 

·        Retrieves and compiles factual data on motor vehicle accidents in order to accurately locate the accident site.

 

·        Maintains hand tools and survey equipment and makes minor repairs when necessary.

 

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DISTINGUISHING FACTORS:

 

Skill:  Requires minimal skill in performing a series of routine procedures OR in operating equipment according to standardized instructions.

 

Knowledge:  Requires understanding and using business or trades vocabulary or basic arithmetic to perform standard operating procedures.

 

Impact:  Requires responsibility for contributing to agency objectives by ensuring the accuracy of support activities within one or more organizational units.  Errors at this level affect the work of others or have measurable monetary consequences, and require verification and correction in order to complete succeeding work operations.

 

Supervision:  Requires no supervision of employees or functions.

 

Working Conditions:  Requires performing regular job functions in an environment which includes exposure to continuous physical elements or a number of disagreeable working conditions with frequent exposure to minor injuries or health hazards.

 

Physical Demands:  Requires medium work, including continuous strenuous activities such as frequent reaching, bending, or lifting as well as performing work activities which require fine manual dexterity or coordination in operating machines or equipment.

 

Communication:  Requires minimal personal interaction or communication, including providing simple information in response to routine questions from employees within the agency.

 

 

 

Complexity:  Requires a combination of job functions using minimal judgment to perform a variety of job tasks according to clearly prescribed standard practices and procedures.

 

Independent Action:  Requires making a limited number of choices in selecting among alternative courses of action under supervisory guidance and in performing job functions according to a variety of prescribed policies or procedures.

 

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

 

Education:  Graduation from high school, G.E.D. or its equivalent.

 

Experience:  One year's experience at a level equal to Engineering Aide I.

 

License/Certification:  None required.

 

RECOMMENDED WORK TRAITS:  Knowledge of fundamental highway engineering.  Skill in the use of surveying equipment.  Ability to carry out minor sub-professional engineering tasks without detailed instructions.  Ability to remain at one physical location for extended periods.  Ability to make simple drawings and tracings.  Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with other employees and the general public.  Must be willing to maintain appearance appropriate to assigned duties and responsibilities as determined by the agency appointing authority.

 

DISCLAIMER STATEMENT:  This class specification is descriptive of general duties and is not intended to list every specific function of this class title.

 


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