Description
The City of Heath is seeking an experienced and strategic leader to serve as its next Director of Public Works. This position oversees the planning, operation, maintenance, and improvement of the City's public infrastructure, including streets, utilities, and related services. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership skills, extensive public works experience, and a commitment to delivering exceptional service to the community while supporting the City's continued growth and development. The Director will work closely with City leadership, residents, developers, and regional partners to maintain and enhance Heath's high quality of life.
Summary
To lead, direct, and manage the city's public works department. Duties include planning, organizing, and overseeing the city's water, sanitary sewer, drainage, streets, and construction inspection services. Also responsible for planning and execution of capital projects and budget preparation.
Essential Job Functions & Other Important Duties:
- Plans, directs, organizes, and coordinates the activities of the public works department, including water provision, sanitary sewer, streets, and construction inspection.
- Prepares and submits operating and capital improvement budgets and recommendations to the city manager for the public works department and administers approved budgets.
- Conducts and participates in long-range planning initiatives, including projecting a broad plan of public works improvement.
- Supervises the Assistant Director of Public Works, the Administrative Assistant to Public Works and other assigned personnel. Through subordinate supervisors and managers, provides leadership, direction, training, and performance management for all staff.
- Receives and investigates citizens' complaints about public works activities and takes or recommends appropriate action.
- Ensures that city signs and other traffic control devices are placed, maintained, and repaired in accordance with local ordinances, procedures, and policies.
- Ensures that streets, easements, rights-of-way, drainage, and property are properly maintained in a safe and efficient manner.
- Confers with and provides information to property owners, contractors, developers, engineers, architects and the general public regarding conformance to standards, plans, specifications and codes.
- Performs project development for complex projects such as capital improvement, including finalizing scope of projects, preparing bid summaries, conducting bid openings, preparing project budgets and preparing cost estimates.
- Oversees, administers, and coordinates services delivered through contracts and vendors.
- Inspects city facilities and work crews in the field to ensure that assignments are being carried out properly and that work quality and safety standards are being maintained.
- Prepares and submits reports and statistics to various agencies.
- Performs such other related duties as may be assigned.
Requirements
Education and Experience:
Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Public Administration, Construction Management, or related field. A master’s degree in public administration, management, or a related field is preferred. At least 10 years progressively responsible experience in public works, water and wastewater operations, and infrastructure management; including three years of supervisory and managerial experience.
Or any equivalent combination of experience and training which provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.
Certifications and Licenses:
Valid Texas driver's license
Preferred-
TCEQ "B" Water License
TCEQ "B" Sewer License
Certified Public Manager (CPM)
APWA Public Works Certified
Knowledge of:
Administration and Management: principles and processes involved in business and organizational planning, coordination, and execution. This includes strategic planning, resource allocation, manpower modeling, and leadership techniques.
Budget Management: developing plans and budgets, and monitoring them against actual activity.
Personnel and Human Resources: policies and practices involved in personnel/human resource functions, including selection, supervision, training, performance evaluations, and termination.
Office Software: current word processing, presentation, spreadsheet, and database programs used by the city.
Maintenance Principles: processes involved in upkeep of infrastructure and equipment to the optimum state of cleanliness, repair, and efficiency.
Construction and Service Contracts: regulations and principles for developing specifications, bidding projects, and approving invoices for payment.
Utilities Operation and Construction: engineering and other materials, methods, laws (including TCEQ regulations),and tools to safely and accurately complete and operate utilities infrastructure.
Customer Service: principles and processes for providing customer and personal services including a desire to help customers regardless of their circumstance.
English Language: the structure and content of the English language, including the meaning of words and grammar.
Skill/Ability:
Public Speaking: effective oral communication with an audience.
Professional Writing Skills: Effective written communication for public consumption, City Council, City Manager, and various state and federal agencies.
Complex Problem Solving: identifying problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
Cooperation: establishing and maintaining positive working relationships with those contacted in the course of work.
Management of Personnel Resources: motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, and identifying the best people for the job.
Maintain Current Knowledge: reading, analyzing, and interpreting professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
Deductive Reasoning: applying general rules to specific problems to come up with logical answers. This involves deciding if an answer makes sense or provides a logical explanation for why a series of seemingly unrelated events occur together.
Inductive Reasoning: combining separate pieces of information or specific answers to problems to form general rules or conclusions. This includes coming up with a logical explanation for why a series of seemingly unrelated events occur together.
Negotiation: bringing others together to reconcile differences.
Judgment and Decision-making: weighing the relative costs and benefits of a potential action.
Interactive Presentation: effectively presenting information to groups and responding to questions.
Physical Demands and Work Environment
Physical Abilities:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that an employee must meet to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee constantly is required to balance, drive a vehicle, grasp, handle, feel, lift up to 10 pounds, listen, see, sit, talk, or walk. The employee frequently is required to lift up to 25 pounds or stand. The employee occasionally is required to carry, climb, crawl, kneel, lift up to 50 pounds, pull, push, reach, run, smell or stoop. Rarely, the employee is required to lift more than 100 pounds.
Working Environment:
The person performing the duties of the Director of Public Works may encounter the following working conditions: dirty environment, extreme temperatures or weather conditions, or responsibility for the safety of others.
