Watershed Manager I- Hydraulic Modeling- OES - Atlanta, United States - City of Atlanta

Description

Posting Open Until Filled

Salary: Commensurate with experience

Here at the City of Atlanta, we are passionate about building and improving our community. Our Police Officers, Fire Fighters, and Building Inspectors keep our Citizens safe. Our Public Works Staff keep our City clean and help to maintain, build, and improve our City's infrastructure. Our City planners help envision and shape future City growth. Our Parks & Recreation professionals enhance our quality of life. Our Engineers help to keep our drinking water clean, the largest airport in the world (by passenger volume) operating, and our buildings maintained. Along with the host of Finance, Procurement, and Human Resources professionals whose support is vital, we are the City of Atlanta If you're seeking a meaningful role where you can make a real difference improving and growing our City, we welcome you to explore the job opportunities we have to offer.

The Department of Watershed Management is a regional public water and wastewater utility serving 1.2 million people each day. The Department's core services include treatment and distribution of safe drinking water; collection and treatment of wastewater to a high standard; management of watersheds within the City of Atlanta; and customer care and billing services for 164,000 accounts. The Department's vision of being a leader in innovation, service and value is supported by eight strategic priorities including: Service Delivery, Infrastructure Reliability, Workforce Development, Operational Efficiency, Financial Resilience, Compliance, Smart Utility Transformation; and Safety, Security and Emergency Management.

General Summary

Manages the City's water, sewer and wastewater treatment plants in effort to serve the citizens by responding to their concerns and engaging in the appropriate actions. Performs various skilled and unskilled tasks associated with work development, coordinating and administering source water protection, conservation and monitoring programs. This is an experienced managerial level charged with responsibility for one or more activities within a department. Position manages a large group of employees, typically with intermediate supervisors, or a smaller group of specialized professional employees. Areas of responsibility are typically unique within the department.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities These are typical responsibilities for this position and should not be construed as exclusive or all inclusive. May perform other duties as assigned.

• Manages the water, sewer and wastewater treatment plant hydraulic modeling tasks; Assigns task responsibilities to staff; Functions as a City Expert on pumps, hydraulics, environmental processes and equipment, specifications & other municipal applications for evaluating and recommending solutions to problems or verifying consultant recommendations.
• Provides training, coaching and mentoring to all assigned staff; Manages, supervises and directs the staff, functions, operations, programs, classes, seminars and budget of the department's training division.
• Serves as technical lead in handling the Modeling projects; Coordinates and conducts source water monitoring and modeling activities in conjunction with relevant agencies.
• Protects the City's infrastructure and surface waters by diligently enforcing the City's environmental regulations; and support the sustainable growth of the City while protecting our resources for future generations.
• Provides leadership in community outreach efforts related to watershed planning. This includes developing and disseminating outreach materials to stakeholders at venues such as networking among agencies, organizations and individuals.
• Provides general technical guidance to support Watershed's operations; May manage some areas of the day-today operation of IT; Make general recommendations for Network Infrastructure, Network Security, Servers (hardware and software).
• Manages small to large design projects meeting schedule, scope and budget objectives per requirements of stakeholders. Meets design expectations of Operations for small design and procurement projects including emergencies.

Required Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Knowledge of engineering and construction terminology; knowledge and understanding of technical jargon of the environmental compliance field including 'EPA speak' is highly desirable; knowledge of the law and the code of ordinances is required; knowledge of typical engineering practices; thorough knowledge of the principles and practices of water resource management and watershed science; knowledge and experience with watershed modeling and GIS applications; thorough knowledge of the principles and practices of land use planning.
• Skilled in communicating verbally and in writing; Good interpersonal skills; Good leadership skills.
• Ability to interact effectively with various personality styles and with upper departmental management or elected officials
• Ability to read and interpret construction drawings; ability to interpret laws, regulations and guidelines; ability to utilize Microsoft suites and project management programs; ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with professional colleagues, employees and representatives of other public agencies.