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Council File No. 191952—ordinance No.
11474 —By Bernard T .Holland —
fAn. ordinance amending Ordinance No. 7607, entitled:
"An ordinance fixing the duties and responsi- '
bilities and the minimum qualifications for the various classes.
of positions. in the Ciassified Service of the City, 11
approved February 13, 1935, as amended.
THE COUNCIL OF' THE CITY OY SAINT PAUL DOES ORDAIN:
Section 1. That Ordinance No. 76.07, approved February 13,
1935, as amended, be and the same is hereby further amended by striking
out the specifications for t1Engineering Aide";
and, by inserting in their proper alphabetical order the following
specifications. for:
Assistant Public Buildings Technician
Assistant Structural Engineer
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Assistant Traffic Technician
Chief Public Buildings Technician
Engineering Aide
Junior .L,andscape, Architect
Junior ,Mechanical Engineer
Junior Structural Engineer
Junior Traffic" Technician
Senior Landscape Architect
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Senior Public Buildings Technician
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Senior Structural Engineer
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.Senior Traffic Technician
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Section 2. This ordinance shall take. effect and be in force
thirty days after its passage, approval, and publication.
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Title of class:
ASSISTANT PUBLIC BUILDINGS TECHNICIAN
Duties and responsibilities:
Under supervision, to perform routine engineering or architectural
work in surveying, drafting, plan checking, and inspection of
public and private buildings and facilities; and to perform related
work as-assigned.
Examples of work performed:
To review the less complex plans and specifications to determine
conformance with the codes.
To make routine inspections of buildings under construction and the
installation of equipment and facilities.
To prepare detailed drawings and renderings of public buildings and
facilities.
To assist in preparing cost estimates and specifications.
To make surveys for the Department of Parks, Playgrounds and
Public Buildings.
To make, basic computations to determine safe loads. and the strength
of various parts of buildings.
To make inspections of buildings to determine the legality of proposed
architectural and structural changes.
To make investigations and reports on explosions, fires, floods, etc. ,
which may occur in the City.
Minimum qualifications:
High school graduation and six years' experience in mechanical or
electrical engineering or architectural work, at least three years
of which shall have been in building design, construction, or
inspection, or as a senior mechanical, electrical, or architectural
draftsman.
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Title of class: `
ASSISTANT STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Duties and responsibilities:
Under supervision, to perform important routine professional work,
somewhat difficult in character, in the investigation, develop-
ment, design, construction, or inspection of the structural
features of buildings and structures; and to perform related work
as assigned.
Examples of work performed:
To supervise and assist in the preparation of plans, designs, speci-
fications and estimates for buildings and structures.
To develop scale drawings including floor plans, decorations, sections
and scale details for buildings and structures.
To investigate and report on the cost and advisability of proposed
buildings and structures.
To prepare structural cost data.
Minimum qualifications: .
College graduation in civil engineering and two years' professional
structural engineering experience. (No substitution for education. )
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Title of class:
ASSISTANT TRAFFIC TECHNICIAN
Duties and responsibilities:
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Under supervision, to perform routine engineering work connected
with traffic operations, surveyors, or plans; and to perform
related work as assigned.
Examples of work performed:
To investigate and report findings on traffic complaints and suggestions.
To inspect and report upon the materials and methods of construction
used on traffic signal contracts,
To plan, organize, and conduct traffic surveys.
To prepare charts, summaries, and tables showing survey results.
To perform drafting, computations or assembly work on plans, charts
and diagrams.
To supervise the work of sign and marking installation.
To direct and coordinate the work of parking meter operations.
Minimum qualifications:
High school graduation and six years' experience in traffic engineering ~
work, at least three years of which shall have been as a junior
traffic technician or senior engineering draftsman.
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Title of class:
CHIEF PUBLIC BUILDINGS TECHNICIAN
Duties and responsibilities:
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Under direction, to perform difficult professional engineering or
architectural work in the investigation, development, design,
construction, inspection, etc. , of public and private buildings
and facilities; to check for conformance to the City codes; and
to ,perform related work as assigned.
Examples of work performed:
To supervise a specialized technical section of the Bureau of Public
Buildings.
To make original designs of public buildings and related equipment
and facilities.
To prepare cost data and complete cost estimates.
To write specifications for public buildings.
To inform private architects, engineers, and the public of the re-
quirements of the codes.
To review preliminary plans of private architects and engineers in
order to insure final compliance with code requirements.
To supervise the inspection of buildings under construction and the
installation of equipment and facilities.
To supervise the investigations and reports on explosions, fires,
floods, etc. , which occur in the City.
Minimum qualifications:
Must be a registered professional engineer or architect in the
State of Minnesota.
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Title of class;
ENGINEERING AIDE
Duties and responsibilities:
Under supervision, to perform the simple routine tasks involved
in surveying, traffic surveys, inspection, or engineering office
,.work; and to perform related work as assigned.
Examples of work performed:
To hold a level or a stadia rod and give a series of rod readings
on a line of levels.
To measure distances.
To carry instruments: +
To place stakes, markers and monuments as directed.
To clear brush in the line of survey. .�e
To assist inspectors on simple routine projects or at concrete plants.
To conduct routine traffic surveys.
To place and maintain automatic traffic counting devices.
In the office- -
To give routine information to the public at the counter regarding
assessments, house numbers, etc.
To issue house numbers.
To keep records and indexes.
To file drawings, tracings, contracts and field books.
Minimum qualifications:
High school graduation with major courses in mathematics.
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Title of class;
ENGINEERING AIDE
Duties and responsibilities:
Under supervision, to perform the simple routine tasks involved
in surveying, traffic surveys, inspection, or engineering office
,.work; and to perform related work as assigned.
Examples of work performed:
To hold a level or a stadia rod and give a series of rod readings
on a line of levels.
To measure distances.
To carry instruments: +
To place stakes, markers and monuments as directed.
To clear brush in the line of survey. .�e
To assist inspectors on simple routine projects or at concrete plants.
To conduct routine traffic surveys.
To place and maintain automatic traffic counting devices.
In the office- -
To give routine information to the public at the counter regarding
assessments, house numbers, etc.
To issue house numbers.
To keep records and indexes.
To file drawings, tracings, contracts and field books.
Minimum qualifications:
High school graduation with major courses in mathematics.
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Title of class:
JUNIOR LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
Duties and responsibilities:
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Under supervision, to perform routine professional work in the
design, construction, inspection and maintenance of landscaping;
and to perform related work as assigned.
Examples of work performed:
To make field studies and collect data incident to the landscaping of
parks and recreational areas.
To assist in the preparation of plans, designs, specifications and
estimates for landscape improvements and projects.
To make detailed drawings of plantings, gradings and other necessary
treatments.
Minimum qualifications:
College graduation in landscape architecture. (No substitution for
education. )
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Title of class:
JUNIOR MECHANICAL ENGINEER
Duties and responsibilities:
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Under supervision, to perform routine professional work in the
investigation, design, inspection, operation and maintenance
of heating, ventilating, plumbing and other mechanical building
equipment; and to perform related work as assigned.
Examples of work performed:
Following, principally, plans and methods established or prescribed
by superiors, to develop working detail, to carry out plans and
programs, and to make necessary measurements and computations.
To assist in the design of plumbing, heating, ventilating, air con-
ditioning and other mechanical equipment.
To assist in writing specifications for mechanical equipment.
To act as inspector on the installation of the less complex mechanical
equipment.
To check, for compliance with code requirements, plans and designs
submitted for permits for installation of mechanical equipment.
To make field inspections of existing structures regarding safety of
mechanical equipment.
Minimum qualifications:
College graduation in mechanical engineering. (No substitution for
education. )
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Title of class:
JUNIOR STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Duties and responsibilities:
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Under supervision, to perform routine professional work in the
investigation, design, inspection, and the structural features
of buildings and other structures; and to perform related work
as assigned. LL
Examples of work performed:
To assist in the preparation of plans, designs, specifications and
*estimates for buildings and structures.
To assist in the inspection of the construction of buildings and
structures.
To have charge of parties in`;,making surveys regarding buildings
and other structures.
To interpret the building code and check plans for conformance to
this code.
Minimum qualifications:
College graduation in- civil engineering. (No substitution for
education.)
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JUNIOR TRAFFIC TECHNICIAN
Duties and repponsibilities:
Under supervision, to have charge of routine field or office work
connected with traffic operations, surveys, or plans.; and to
perform related work as assigned.
Examples of work performed:
To place and supervise placement of automatic traffic counting
devices.
To maintain and supervise maintenance of traffic survey -and other
records.
To prepare accident diagrams.
To gather data and conduct field surveys such as those for volume,
speed, origin and destination, parking and control device ob-
servance or effectiveness.
To prepare plans, charts, 'summaries, or tables as assigned.
To give information to the public concerning traffic engineering
records.
To assist in the preparation of signal plans and inspection of
signal installations.
To make ink tracings.
Minimum qualiiicaLtions:
High school graduation }with major courses in mathematics, and
two years' experience as a senior traffic engineering aide or
the equivalent. 1
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Title of class:
SENIOR LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
Duties and responsibilities:
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Under direction, to perform responsible professional work of
considerable difficulty and importance in the design, con-
struction, inspection and maintenance of landscaping; and to
perform related work as assigned.
Examples of work performed:
To have charge of the design of all landscaping of parks and re-
creational areas.
To supervise the preparation of plans, designs, specifications
and estimates for landscape improvements and projects.
To do research work in connection with proposed landscape projects.
To coordinate the landscaping work with the recreational area and
building plans.
To make studies in connection with proposing improvements in
landscaping.
Minimum qualifications:
College graduation in Jandscape architecture and six years' pro -
fessional'lindscapi*experience, at least two years of which
shall have been as -an assistant landscape architect. (No sub-
stitution for education. )
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Title of class: l / /
SENIOR PUBLIC BUILDINGS TECHNICIAN
Duties and responsibilities:
Under supervision, to perform difficult engineering or architectural
work in the surveying, designing, inspection, etc. of public and
private buildings and facilities; and to perform related work as
assigned.
Examples of work performed:
To prepare routine designs and specifications of public buildings and
facilities.
To review the more complex plans and specifications to determine
conformance with the code.
To inspect complex buildings under construction and the installation
of equipment and facilities. -
To inform private architects, engineers, and the public of the re-
quirements of the codes.
To make the more difficult surveys for the Department of Parks,
Playgrounds and Public Buildings.
To prepare cost estimates for public buildings.
To make necessary computations to determine safe loads and the
strength of various parts of complex buildings.
To make in of complex buildings to determine the legality
of propose&bzchitectural and structural changes.
To make final investigations and reports on explosions, fires, floods,
etc. , which occur in the'City.
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Minimum qualifications:
Two years of college training with courses in engineering or arch-
itecture and eight years' experience in mechanical or electrical
engineeri,rig or architectural work, at least two years of which shall
have been as an Assistant Public Buildings Technician. (No sub-
stitution for education. )
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Title of class,
SENIOR STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Duties and responsibilities:
Under ,direction, to perform responsible professional engineering
work of considerable difficulty and importance in the design and
construction of the structural features of buildings and other
structures; and to perform related work as assigned.
Examples of work performed:
To have charge of draftsmen and engineers in the preparation of
designs' detailed plans, specifications and estimates of costs
of buildings and structures.
To give assistance and advice regarding contemplated new structures.
To do research work in connection with proposed new buildings and
remodeling of existing structures.
To do research work in connection with building code revisions.
Minimum qualifications:
Must be a registered structural engineer or civil engineer in the
State of Minnesota fi {No substitution for education, j
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Title of class,
SENIOR STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Duties and responsibilities:
Under ,direction, to perform responsible professional engineering
work of considerable difficulty and importance in the design and
construction of the structural features of buildings and other
structures; and to perform related work as assigned.
Examples of work performed:
To have charge of draftsmen and engineers in the preparation of
designs' detailed plans, specifications and estimates of costs
of buildings and structures.
To give assistance and advice regarding contemplated new structures.
To do research work in connection with proposed new buildings and
remodeling of existing structures.
To do research work in connection with building code revisions.
Minimum qualifications:
Must be a registered structural engineer or civil engineer in the
State of Minnesota fi {No substitution for education, j
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Title of class:'
SENIOR TRAFFIC ENGINEERING AIDE
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Duties and responsibilities:
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Under supervision,to perform routine traffic field surveys or
drafting room work; and to perform related work as assigned.
Examples of work performed:
To conduct routine volume, speed, accident, and related surveys.
To perform routine mathematical and statistical computations.
To make field sketches.
To make ink tracings.
To give information to the public concerning traffic engineering
records.'
To wire elementary electrical circuits for traffic surveying
equipment.
To inspect, investigate and report on requests for signs, minor
traffic control changes, parking changes, etc.
Minimum qualifications:
High school graduation with major courses in mathematics, and
one year's experience as an engineering aide, tracer, or
equivalent.
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Title of class:
SENIOR TRAFFIC TECgiNICIAN
Duties and responsibilities:
Under supervision, to perform difficult engineering work connected
with traffic operations, surveys, or plans; and to perform related
work as assigned.
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Examples of work performed:
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To supervise the investigations of traffic complaints and suggestions.
To supervise the inspection of materials and methods of construction
used on traffic signal contracts. "i•,
To plan, organize, perform and supervise performance of assigned
traffic surveys.
To prepare and supervise the preparation of charts, summaries and
tables showing survey results.
To supervise the drafting, computation or assembly work on plans,
charts, and diagrams.
To carry out and supervise the conduct of material tests and research.
To prepare plans and specifications for traffic control equipment.
Minimum qualifications:
Two years of college with major courses in mathematics and /or
statistics and ten yeas' experience in traffic engineering work,
at lea Et four years of which shall have been as an Assistant Traffic
Technician. (No substitution for education. )
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