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ABOUT THE CITY
We offer a wide range of meaningful career opportunities with potential for growth, training and development, competitive salaries, flexible work schedules, paid time off, and robust benefits. The Redwood City team is guided by excellence, integrity, service, collaboration, inclusion, and innovation. Inherent in these values is a great organizational culture based on trust, strong and supportive leadership, respect, risk-taking, empowerment, and effective communication.
The community is known for its inclusivity, strong engaged neighborhoods, and civic pride. The City works diligently to maintain positive and productive relationships with community partners, together providing outstanding services, programs and opportunities for residents and businesses. This mix of tradition and progress, community and diversity, makes Redwood City an extraordinary place to work and call home. If you’re looking to grow your career as a part of a hard-working and fun Engineering & Transportation Department team that fosters innovation, creativity and collaboration, we hope you’ll apply.
The Department:
The Engineering and Transportation Department is supported by 27 FTEs, 9 contract employees, and a FY 2025-26 Capital Budget of approximately $72.9 million covering infrastructure and transportation projects. The Five-Year CIP (FY 2025-26 to FY 2029-30) totals $372 million, including citywide projects. Major projects include an impressive list of transportation projects, such as the SR84/US101 Freeway Interchange, grade separations along the Caltrain rail line, parking, transportation demand management and Vision Zero implementation, and various traffic calming and roadway projects. Other major projects entail the Transit Center, the Water Master Plan implementation, finalizing and implementing a Recycled Water Master Plan, and various Stormwater System improvements. Future priorities will involve developing an Adaptation Plan to address Sea Level Rise and the Redwood Shores and Bayshore protection projects.
Potential candidates outside the Bay Area are strongly encouraged to research the cost of
housing and overall cost of living in the area before applying.
Ideal Candidate
The Assistant Director will have functional responsibility for managing the City’s Capital Improvement Program (CIP), including utility infrastructure, civic, and transportation projects. They will also lead the review of design and improvement plans for private development projects and provide guidance and direction to subdividers, engineers, and architects in order to ensure compliance with the City standards and conditions of approval. Ideal candidates will bring exceptional project management skills, prior experience coordinating a complex CIP and leading engineering functions for a similar-sized municipality. This experienced professional will be a collaborative manager with a supportive and engaged style. Being accessible to employees and building a cohesive and responsive team will be important in this role. Prior experience working with field personnel leading survey operations and construction inspection is highly desirable. Knowledge and experience working with technology that supports effective project management and improved communication on project status to internal and external customers will also be important to the Assistant Director’s future success.
What you’ll do, at a glance:
As Redwood City’s Assistant Engineering & Transportation Director, you’ll:
- Functional responsibility for the City’s Capital Improvement Program, relating to utility infrastructure, civic, and transportation projects.
- Prepare plans and specifications for City’s Capital Improvement Projects.
- Review and check, with the assistance of staff and consultants, capital improvement plans for street, sanitary sewer, water, stormwater, and other infrastructure systems.
- Assist in land acquisition for public works projects, including the procurement and review of appraisals and provision of assistance to negotiators in the process.
- Prepare staff reports for final acceptance of construction projects for bond release and approval.
- Review soils and other technical reports and incorporate findings and recommendations into proposed infrastructure improvement plans and construction specifications.
- Perform other duties as assigned
Please review the detailed job description Assistant Engineering & Transportation Director here, which includes more information on the essential duties, knowledge, skills and abilities for this position
Benefits
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Special Instructions
Submit your application via: www.CalOpps.org by Friday, October 17, 2025 by 11:59 pm. In person oral board interviews are tentatively scheduled on Friday, November 14, 2025.
A City application, a cover letter and responses to the supplemental questions are required. Applications must be filled out completely. Failure to complete the application, attach a cover letter and responses to the supplemental questions will disqualify the applicant from the recruitment process. Failure to list work experience, and education or training or stating “See Resume” in the work experience section of the application will be considered an incomplete application and subject to disqualification. Resumes may be attached separately, but resumes will not be accepted in lieu of a City application.
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