Division Administrator – Public Works

Crandon, WI

About the Job:

You will lead an administrative division to plan, organize, direct and integrate the utilities infrastructure of the Forest County Potawatomi Tribal Nation.

Here’s what you will be doing:

• Leading an administrative division to plan, organize, direct and integrate the departments of Fleet, Transit, Roads, Utilities, Solid Waste, Housing, Construction Management, and Facilities Maintenance of the Forest County Potawatomi Tribal Nation.
• Serving as a visionary leader and team builder, who brings together the diverse elements of the staff and community to develop a vision and clear goals for the future growth and expansion of the Public Works Division in alignment with the mission, vision and values.
• Preparing, reviewing, interpreting, and analyzing data that supports the creation and execution of the division master strategic plan, including but not limited to short and long term goals, employee engagement, budgets and grant funding, key performance indicators, and other measurable outcomes.
• Ensuring standard operating procedures are aligned with divisional strategy, FCP policies and in coordination with other division strategies.
• Developing appropriate financial and programmatic metrics to build accountability, measure results and optimize programs’ impacts.
• Ensuring divisional employee effectiveness through recognition, coaching, counseling, skill advancement, performance evaluation, and corrective action. Ensure good leaders become great leaders.
• Ensuring all grant funds, contracts and agreements are properly executed.
• Serving as a mentor, coach and positive role model for ethical behavior.
• Representing Forest County Potawatomi at appropriate venues as participant; and often as teacher, presenter, or facilitator.
• Enforcing Forest County Potawatomi preference system in all hiring, training, and decisions such that all FCP Tribal members have first preference. Indians have second preference, spouses of tribal members have third preference, and individuals with Potawatomi ancestry or ties have fourth preference, to promote employees to ensure the future and welfare of the next generations.
• Ensuring that qualified Forest County Potawatomi Community members be placed in training positions to manage all tribal departments and enterprises and to facilitate self-reliance and self-governance.

Here’s what you’ll need to be successful:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Public Administration or related field with 5 years of field-related leadership experience; or less education with 10 years of field-related leadership experience.
• Thorough understanding of public works infrastructure.
• Experience with utilities expansion planning, design and execution.
• Ability to identify, analyze, disseminate, and develop creative response models to address community wide issues and challenges, in coordination with other divisions and Executive Council.
• Thorough understanding of budgets, strategic planning and oversight of tactical execution.
• Must successfully pass all applicable background checks and drug screens

Preferred Qualifications :

• Master’s Degree in Engineering, Public Administration or related field with 3 years of field-related leadership experience.

Benefits You’ll Love:

• Approximately 5 weeks of paid time off annually
• 3 weeks of paid holidays
• Premium free health insurance
• Flexible spending accounts
• Short term disability
• Life insurance
• 401k with match