City Engineer; Continuous

The City of Alameda is looking to fill one (1) full-time City Engineer position within the Public Works Department. This is a full-time position with a 4-day, 36 hour work week (Monday through Thursday).

This is a continuous recruitment with the first review including all applications received by October 30, 2026. This recruitment may close following October 30th without notice once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

The City of Alameda Public Works Department seeks an experienced, collaborative, and innovative Professional Engineer with exceptional management and leadership skills to serve as the department's City Engineer overseeing land development, transportation and the Capital Improvement Program for this historic East Bay community.

The City of Alameda is a unique island community of approximately 76,000 residents in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is connected to the East Bay mainland by four bridges, two underwater tubes, and by ferry services to San Francisco. Alameda is within minutes of the numerous cultural activities in San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley. Alameda is a vibrant community with a rich history and small-town charm, Alameda has a diverse mix of housing, neighborhoods, and pedestrian friendly shopping areas.

Charming Victorian homes grace shady tree-lined streets covering the island’s 23 square miles. It is an architecturally and historically rich community with over 10,000 buildings constructed prior to 1930. Alameda was incorporated in 1854 and became a charter city in 1916 with a Council-Manager form of government. The five-member Mayor/Council serves four-year terms, staggered at even numbered years. The Council directly hires the City Manager, City Attorney and City Clerk.

The City is a full-service organization providing residents with a broad range of municipal services including police and fire protection; construction and maintenance of streets, sewers, storm drains, street lights, and other infrastructure; a state-of-the-art library system; and over 400 acres of parks and recreational facilities including multi-use athletic fields, picnic sites, a skate park, a swim center, and a full service senior center.

The City owns and operates Alameda Municipal Power, an electric utility serving the needs of all Alameda residents and businesses. Visit the City of Alameda website at:(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). Alameda’s City Council hold traffic safety, climate change and investments in infrastructure as top priorities. This is demonstrated in the recently adopted $100 million two-year capital improvement program. To view the  Alameda Capital Budget .

The City of Alameda Public Works Department is the steward of Alameda's public infrastructure, responsible for its design, construction, and maintenance. The Department's Five-Year Strategic Plan organizes the department's work into four key focus areas:
Resilient Workforce, Sustainable Funding, Reliable Infrastructure, and Effective Service Delivery. Operationally, the Public Works Department is working to be the best organization in the San Francisco Bay Area with focus on making strides to be at the forefront of Public Works best practices, investing in robust GIS, asset management, permitting, finance systems and much more. There are tremendous opportunities for the right individual and a number of exciting initiatives to be a key part of in creating an exciting, livable, and safe community.

The City Engineer oversees the Engineering Division including 19 engineers, project managers, and public works inspectors tasked with management over transportation, capital improvement projects, and land development. The division has an operating budget of…