Field Operations Manager, Preventative Maintenance

SUMMARY: Under limited supervision, is responsible for the daily oversight of the Field Operations Preventative Maintenance Department’s personnel and activities associated with the BJWSA’s water and wastewater delivery and collection systems. These duties include overseeing maintenance of the raw water canal and other right of ways, sewer system cleaning, sewer and water asset inspection, sanitary sewer evaluation survey, control of inflow and infiltration, leak detection, and BJWSA’s valve exercising program. Ensures that all aspects of work performed in the water distribution and wastewater delivery and collection systems is performed in accordance with ethical standards, local, state and federal regulations.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Duties include but are not limited to:

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Education, Experience, Certifications, Licenses:

Preferred Education, Experience, Certifications, Licenses:* Bachelor’s degree in civil or mechanical engineering or related field.

Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge readily observable functional, structural or compositional characteristics (whether similar to or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people or things. Requires the ability to evaluate, deduce, and/or assess data using established criteria. Includes exercising discretion in determining actual or probable consequences and referencing such evaluation to identify and select alternatives.

Interpersonal Communications: Requires the ability of speaking and/or signaling people to convey or exchange information. This includes interacting with various departments on various levels to guide and direct activities, receive direction and information from supervisor and provide guidance and direction and to subordinate staff members. Requires the ability to perform effectively in a leadership capacity.

Language Ability: Requires ability to read and create a variety of documents: codes, regulations, policy and procedure manuals, informational and technical documents, maps, construction drawings, blueprints, work orders, directions, instructions, etc. Requires the ability to prepare routine reports, records, etc. using proper format, punctuation, spelling and grammar. Requires the ability to speak with and before others with clarity, voice control and confidence using correct English and well-modulated voice.

Computer Proficiency: Must be proficient with computer software including, but not limited to, word processing, spreadsheet, database, and mapping. Must possess strong keyboarding skills.

Intelligence: Requires the ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness and use creativity when applying principles of rational systems to solve practical problems. Deals with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Interprets a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic or schedule form. Requires the ability to apply influence systems in managing a crew, learn and understand relatively complex principles and techniques, make independent judgments in absence of supervision and acquire knowledge of topics related to primary occupation. Must have the ability to comprehend and interpret received information.

Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference, descriptive, and/or advisory data and information. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently with persons from a variety of educational backgrounds using technical terminology as required.

Numerical Aptitude: Requires the ability to accurately utilize mathematical formulas, add and subtract totals, multiply and divide, determine percentages, decimals, time and weight.

Writing Skills: Requires proficiency in written communication, particularly the documentation of business practices and procedures.

Form/Spatial Aptitude: Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width, and shape, visually with job-related equipment.

Motor Coordination: Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes using office machinery and operating motor vehicles.

Manual Dexterity: Requires the ability to operate job-related equipment: keyboards, office equipment, control knobs, buttons, switches, catches, tools, etc. Must have moderate levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.

Color Discrimination: Requires the ability to differentiate colors and shades of color.

Interpersonal Temperament: Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing in uncomfortable physical conditions and under stress when confronted with emergency situations, difficult personalities or tight deadlines. Incumbent may be subject to danger or risk to a slight degree and to tension as a regular, consistent part of the job.

Physical Communications: Requires the ability to talk and/or hear: (talking: expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words; hearing: perceiving nature of sounds by ear).

PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, must be physically able to operate a variety of machines and equipment including general office equipment and related technical equipment including drafting instrumentation.

The strength rating for this position is heavy work. The employee is frequently required to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects and may involve lifting, carrying, walking and standing for brief periods of time.

The noise level in the work environment is a 3 – 4 (moderate to loud).