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The City of San Mateo Public Works Department is looking for an

Engineering Manager

Why Join our Department?

When you join the Public Works Department, you will work among collaborative and energetic colleagues who share a passion for serving our San Mateo citizens and improving the community in which we live and work. Our team is comprised of individuals with diverse talents and experience in various fields. We will provide you with a wide range of opportunities in a team-based collaborative environment while helping you achieve your professional goals.  Collaboration, Innovation, Respect, Creativity, Transparency and Informed Risk-taking are attributes within the City’s mission, values and organizational principles that we are seeking in the candidates.

The City of San Mateo is a very progressive City that encourages staff and resident engagement to develop positive solutions that meet the demands of the community and regulatory landscape.  To this end, the Engineering Manager will help lead efforts utilizing networking skills, strategic planning, and performance leadership to develop strategies and tactics to accomplish short and long-term project delivery, while sustaining the City’s missions, visions and goals.  The Public Works Department is committed to high performance levels and standards, utilizing best practices relative to performance management and team-oriented approaches.  The Department supports staff development through a variety of internal and external training opportunities.  The Engineering Manager role will include responsibility for ensuring the best possible performance of each employee and accomplishing the collective services, goals, projects, initiatives, and work plans of the Department and City.

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What You’ll Do

The Engineering Manager will provide and participate in critical team leadership in assuring that all engineering services, goals, projects and initiatives meet the high-performance standards of the Department and City.  Demands of this position will continue to evolve and change to respond to community needs.  Adaptability and flexibility are important for success in this position.

The Engineering Manager receives general direction from the Deputy Director of Public Works or higher-level department personnel and exercises direct supervision over professional, technical and clerical staff.

Individuals with different engineering experience that meets other aspects of the Engineering Manager job specification are encouraged to apply and will also be considered in the recruitment process.

For a complete list of duties, reference our job specifications at www.cityofsanmateo.org.

There is currently one full-time position available, funded by the Lighting and Landscaping Districts.

Community

Suisun City is located midway between San Francisco and Sacramento in south central Solano County. The City, which was among the first to incorporate in California, developed around a waterfront that has direct access to San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. Although the City is largely developed, several large parcels exist and a large annexation is on the horizon that signals ongoing development activity will continue to be in the City’s future.

The Position

The primary job responsibility of the Public Works Maintenance Worker I is to join our team of field employees who work daily to maintain, repair, and construct the physical systems that serve the community, including parks, recreation equipment, streets, traffic signals, landscaped areas, sewer & storm drain collection systems, and other public facilities. We’re looking for creative problem-solvers to perform high-quality skilled work with a variety of tools and equipment types under the direction and guidance of more experienced lead workers and managers in both individual and team projects.

Essential Job Functions

The following duties are typical for this classification. Incumbents may not perform all of the listed duties and/or may be required to perform additional or different duties from those set forth below to address business needs and changing business practices.

• Performs a variety of maintenance and repair work on various City facilities and structures including streets, landscaped areas, recreation facilities, sewer, storm drains, traffic signals, and other public facilities.
• Operates construction and maintenance equipment and power tools such as a dump truck, front-end loader, backhoe, tractor, overlay machine, jetter, compressor, jackhammer, paint sprayer, and concrete saw; maintains hand tools and assigned equipment; performs preventive maintenance on equipment.
• Conducts traffic control when working in high traffic areas of the City; installs street barricades and cones prior to the performance of maintenance or repair activities; directs and controls traffic around work sites.
• Performs various street maintenance functions; identifies and repairs pot hole areas; repairs or replaces cracked, raised, sunken, or otherwise damaged sidewalks, curbs and gutters; removes any roadway hazards; identifies all areas needing striping and/or painting; maintain, clean, and repair collection systems.
• Maintains, installs, and repairs traffic signal systems; maintain and repair street lighting systems, program controllers.
• Prepares, installs, repairs, and replaces City sign posts and signs; cleans and maintains existing signs; trims vegetation that presents safety hazards, clears walkways of trash and debris; removes graffiti.
• Maintains assessment districts and landscaped areas including parkways, open space areas, and medians; performs weed abatement and pesticide applications; installs and maintains irrigation systems to ensure proper operating efficiency; maintains, trims, and removes trees.
• Utilizes proper safety precautions related to all work performed.
• Clears, maintains, and disposes of trash in public areas; oversees the work of contract staff; performs special projects as required.
• Provides courteous customer service; responds to questions and inquiries from the general public regarding various maintenance projects; resolves customer problems or complaints.

Deadline: October 11, 2021 
Salary: $9,879 - $13,239 / Month

Under direction of the Director of Public Works, or designee, the Senior Civil Engineer provides high-level engineering services for the City of Mill Valley. The Senior Civil Engineer provides administrative, professional, and technical assistance to the Public Works Director, manages municipal engineering staff and may act on behalf of the Director as assigned.

Examples of assignments include:

• Designing, implementing and managing Capital Improvement Projects.
• Overseeing land development review and associated coordination with Planning and Building Department staff and applicants
• Managing flood, drainage, stormwater prevention programs and projects
• Addresses traffic operational and safety concerns
• Submitting/certifying sanitary sewer system reports and overseeing the program
• Issuing encroachment permits and supervising the encroachment process

Please remember to upload your resume and cover letter as an attachment (in addition to completing the CalOpps application). 

Deadline: October 11, 2021 
Salary: $7,904 - $10,591 / Month

Under direction of the Director of Public Works, or designee, the Associate Engineer performs engineering services in the public setting, collaborating with multiple stakeholders.

Examples of assignments include:

• Serves as lead for the Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee and other staff committees
• Responds to inquiries regarding topics such as retaining walls, storm drains, sanitary sewer, sidewalks, right of way encroachments, etc.
• Coordinates Steps, Lanes and Paths activities
• Addresses traffic operational and safety concerns
• Review of planning projects and building permits for impact on City ROW and facilities
• Oversees Engineering Technicians in review and inspection of encroachment permits, storm water compliance, and right-of-way management/code enforcement

Please remember to upload your resume and cover letter as an attachment (in addition to completing the CalOpps application). 

The City of Redwood City invites you to apply for the position of Management Fellow - Homelessness Initiatives.

• Please click on the job announcement file below to review the recruitment flyer.
• A complete application is required, including a resume and a written supplemental questionnaire.
• Submit your application online via CalOpps by 11:59 pm on Thursday, September 30, 2021.
• Applications will be reviewed continuously as they are received.

The Management Fellowship Program is designed to attract top talent from graduate schools to commit to meaningful and value-driven work in local government. This program creates a channel into future leadership opportunities within local government. Primarily designed for recent postgraduate candidates as well as current Master's program students, this Fellowship is a limited term (two-year period) position beginning Fall 2021.

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For more information and to apply, please contact Peckham and McKenney - www.peckhamandmckenney.com

THE OPPORTUNITY

The City of Pacifica is a beautiful coastal community, just south of San Francisco with an exciting opportunity. We are currently hiring for a Maintenance Worker II to join our team. Under general supervision, this position will perform semi-skilled maintenance and repairs of City streets, sanitary sewers, storm drains, park and recreation landscaped areas, and other related work.  

At the City of Pacifica, we are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. To us, equal opportunity employment is not just about compliance, it’s about who you are, how you can help our City and who you want to be. At the City of Pacifica, we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and residents.

If interested, we invite you to explore this opportunity with us, please note, recruitment closes on October 1, 2021 by 5:00 PDT, so apply today!

BASIC EXAMPLE OF DUTIES

Duties may include, but are not limited to the following:

• Supervises a small crew and participates in the construction, maintenance and repair of streets, curbs, gutters, sewers, storm drains, catch basins, barricades, sidewalks, parks, landscaped areas, and recreation equipment and facilities;

• Operates and makes minor repairs and adjustments to heavy power-driven equipment; constructs forms for and does cement work;

• Does occasional brick work and building construction and maintenance work; builds retaining walls;

• Supervises and performs slide control planting, creek bed clean out, park landscape planting and maintenance, including irrigation; athletic field maintenance; use of herbicides.

The duties described in this job announcement are intended only as illustrations of the basic types of work that may be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related or a logical assignment to the position. 

The City of Belmont is currently recruiting for the position of Code Enforcement Officer in the Police Department. Under immediate supervision from an assigned Patrol Sergeant, this position performs technical office and field work in public education and enforcement of codes and ordinances. 

Examples of Essential Duties:

• Conduct field checks to uncover possible violations of a variety of City codes and ordinances including zoning, nuisance, property maintenance, and housing.
• Investigate possible violations; contact responsible individuals in person and in writing; perform follow-up investigations to see that remedial action has been taken.
• Work closely with homeowners, businesses, and community groups to enhance quality of life issues as it pertains to code enforcement. 
• Coordinate inspections and dispositions of cases with public works, building, planning, parks and recreation, city attorney, fire, police, county health officials, and other agencies.
• Respond to citizen complaints regarding code violations; exercise appropriate judgement in prioritizing calls; investigate and resolve problems, provide information to public by phone and in person regarding regulations.
• Assist in determining appropriate disposition of outstanding cases after consulting with City Attorney, Building and Planning personnel; issue citations for infractions as provided by the Municipal Code

The City of East Palo Alto seeks a Human Resources Manager to join our team under administrative direction of the City Manager.  The Human Resources Manager is the position responsible for providing leadership in developing and executing human resources strategy that supports the strategic direction of the City government. This includes the recruitment, development, and retention of a high quality workforce capable of delivering public services in a complex and stimulating community environment. Through thoughtful planning and the diligent execution of work, the Human Resources Division must focus on the critical needs of both the organization and its employees. This is a full-time, exempt management position requiring significant technical ability and excellent communication skills.

The mission of the Human Resources Manager is to lead the Division and to provide expeditious and quality customer service to the City and all Departments.

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate will be an experienced human resources administrator with outstanding strategic thinking, interpersonal, organization, negotiation and leadership skills. She/he must possess a thorough understanding of the best practices in human capital management. It is expected that the person selected will also have extensive knowledge and experience in a broad range of human resources programmatic areas in the public sector. It is desired that the selected person have knowledge and/or experience in succession management, comprehensive performance management, and organizational development.