What are the responsibilities and job description for the Engineering Manager - Stormwater Development position at The City of Fort Worth?
Pay Range: $111,791 - $145,328 annual compensation
Job Posting Closing on: Friday, February 7, 2025
Benefits for this position include: 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, Professional Development Opportunities, and much more.
The City of Fort Worth is one of the fastest growing large cities in the U.S. Our employees serve the needs of nearly 1,000,000 residents, promoting our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability.
A Engineering Manager - Stormwater Development job is available with The City of Fort Worth Development Services Department, Infrastructure Division. The position is responsible for leading the Stormwater Development team; a creative and responsive team of City staff and consulting engineers who work with private developers to ensure that their projects meet their goals without creating or aggravating drainage problems. The Stormwater Development team reviews development applications for compliance with the City’s stormwater and floodplain management criteria and related ordinances.
- The position is full-time and located at City Hall.
- The job role requires a minimum of three days per week in the office.
- Depending on the unique design and construction issues, there may be occasional site visits.
The Engineering Manager - Stormwater Development job responsibilities include:
- Manage the Stormwater Development team, develop talent, and provide technical and procedural guidance to staff and review engineer consultants.
- Interpret and apply the City’s Stormwater criteria manual, grading ordinance, subdivision ordinance, and floodplain ordinance to a wide range of development projects and unique design scenarios.
- Contract management and administration for multiple engineering services contracts.
- Prepare, update, and implement standard operating procedures. Monitor budgets and performance metrics, and implement process improvements.
- Apply hydrologic and hydraulic engineering principles to technically complex drainage and floodplain issues. Review, interpret, and apply the findings of drainage and floodplain studies to the review of construction plans and permits.
- Coordinate on a variety of issues with management and executive staff, external agencies, residents, developers, and developer consultants.
- Maintain close coordination, and collaboration, with the Stormwater Management Division of the Transportation & Public Works Department.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in civil engineering or a related field.
- Five (5) years of increasingly responsible engineering construction management experience including two years of administrative and supervisory responsibility.
- Possession of registration as a Professional Engineer in the State of Texas. If licensed in another state, continued employment will be contingent upon obtaining registration as a Professional Engineer within the State of Texas within six months of employment.
- Valid Driver's License.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Highly conversant with hydrologic and hydraulic engineering, and general civil engineering fundamental principles, practices, and techniques.
- Eight (8) or more years of work experience in local government initiatives or projects, either as a public sector employee or private consultant, including project management experience (scoping, budgets, schedules, and contract administration).
- Ability to efficiently distill highly complex processes and technical matters into effective communications and actionable plans.
- Demonstrated success in evaluating and streaming processes to optimize service delivery and resource allocation.
- Preparation of HEC-HMS and HEC-RAS models for drainage and floodplain studies.
Working Conditions
Working conditions are mostly in an office environment. Moderately light physical effort. Occasionally required to push, pull or lift medium to heavy weights, and to stand, sit or walk uncomfortably for extended periods. Kneeling, bending at the waist, and reaching overhead, above the shoulders and horizontally, and climbing ladders, stairs to make necessary inspections. Moderate exposure to elements such as heat, cold, dampness, fumes, noise, dust, or grease. Intermittent exposure to stress as a result of human behavior and the demands of the position. Required travel to various sites within the City.
Physical Demands
Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically require touching, talking, hearing, seeing, grasping, standing, walking and repetitive motions. Sedentary Work – Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, a negligible amount of force frequently, and/or constantly having to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.
Salary : $111,791 - $145,328