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Public Works Director

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San Bernardino, CA, United States

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Feb 21, 2022

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JOB TITLE: 
Public Works Director
AGENCY:
  City of San Bernardino
LOCATION: 
 San Bernardino, California
FILING DEADLINE
:  March 25,2022
SALARY RANGE: 
$172,472.96 – $209,754.48 Annually DOE
The Position
The Director of Public Works plans, organizes, controls, directs, and integrates the wide variety of operations and programs in the Public Works Department including Capital Projects (CIP), Fleet, Environmental Compliance, Traffic Operations, and Maintenance and Operations. This position will also be responsible for advising the City Manager, City Council, the Mayor, and other department heads on policy matters pertaining to a wide range of short- and long-term strategic public works initiatives that manage and  control City growth, development, improvement, and re-invigoration. Responsibilities are broad in scope and involve highly sensitive and publicly visible operations, projects, and processes that require a high degree of policy, program, and administrative discretion in their execution.
Evaluate, direct, and establish operational plans and initiatives to meet departmental goals and policies. Monitor performance against the annual departmental budget, the Integrated Waste budget, and the City’s CIP budget.
Establish requirements and personal development targets to ensure high performance and excellent customer service.
Provide leadership and work with division managers to develop and retain highly competent and motivated staff through effective training, mentoring, and management practices.
Direct and oversee the City’s capital projects engineering/construction, transportation planning and traffic engineering, and real property administration; ensure the allocation of necessary resources for delivery of technically/professionally sound engineering services across core elements of the City’s mission.
Direct and oversee street, landscape, parks, and public property maintenance. Oversee and negotiate integrated waste management program contractors and vendors and other contractual agreements with private haulers.
Provide City with solid waste operations support and landfill management; develop and manage recycling programs as well as the preparation and updating of all required reporting to the State of California.
Administer and manage environmental regulatory requirements applicable to the City’s storm water discharge program; recommend and/or take action to ensure compliance with National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) municipal permit requirements.
Develop and review reports involving a broad range of complex maintenance, enterprise operation and engineering-related issues; make presentations before the City Council, other agencies, community groups and the media on the City’s development services operations and initiatives.
Monitor national and regional trends related to municipal development services and evaluate their impacts on San Bernardino; recommend policy and process changes and improvements.
Other duties will apply as necessary to improve and advance the City’s overall goals and mission.
The Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate is a strong, strategic, and visionary leader and effective communicator with broad experience in all areas of public works; possessing extensive expertise managing staff and creating organizational structure and a sense of team and purpose. As the Director interacts with a variety of internal and external stakeholders, exceptional interpersonal skills and political acumen are of the utmost importance. The successful candidate will have a proven track record creating efficiencies, implementing best practices, and removing unnecessary bureaucratic obstacles, while establishing clear procedures and policies, both written and verbally. A background effectively engaging with labor unions and ensuring positive outcomes is critical. The ideal candidate will possess a passion for public service, especially serving an underserved community; an entrepreneur from within who recognizes this opportunity to create and establish an effective and efficient administrative infrastructure for long-term success.
Key Attributes and Characteristics
A supportive leader who creates a cohesive structure and team-oriented working environment.
An inclusive and positive management style that ensures accountability, responsibility, and encourages discussion and ideas from staff and key stakeholders.
Good organizational skills with a transparent style of leadership; outward facing who is able and willing to use the City website to promote projects, engage with the community, be approachable.
Able to provide clear goals and expectations, while remaining agile and can adapt to changing priorities.
The ability to effectively communicate with staff. Remove roadblocks and be willing to allow for project ownership, employee development, and a sense of pride. Able to attract and retain a solid, high performing workforce.
Stays current in new technologies and legislation.
Effective at community engagement and follow through. A listener.
For more details about this opportunity, please visit the job brochure at:
****To be considered, please submit your resume, cover letter, and five work related references (who will not be contacted in the early stages of the recruitment) at: ****Resumes should reflect years and months of positions held, as well as size of past organizations.
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