Deputy Director​/T&ES Environmental Services

Overview

Deputy Director / T&ES Environmental Services
The Deputy Director of Environmental Services will lead a diverse team of professionals focusing on the City’s stormwater and sanitary sewer programs as well as environmental quality priorities. This position should prioritize providing excellent service to City residents and businesses, creatively and responsively resolving community public infrastructure and quality of life concerns. This individual must combine a strategic, high-level perspective with strong management and administrative skills.

Reporting to the Director of Transportation & Environmental Services (T&ES), the Deputy Director is a senior executive on the City’s leadership team who will bring a collaborative, team-oriented, and problem-solving presence. The position’s responsibilities will include providing leadership, management, and strategic direction to the City’s stormwater, flood, sanitary/sewer functions within the environmental infrastructure branch. The Environmental Services Team encompasses sanitary/sewer infrastructure, stormwater management, and environmental quality.

The Deputy Director should have experience managing horizontal infrastructure operations and maintenance, possess strong fiscal and business acumen, and demonstrate excellent communication and customer-orientation skills. The candidate should also have extensive experience working with people, creatively solving problems, and facilitating the city's transition into collective bargaining. Additionally, the selected candidate should be a public servant and an excellent public speaker capable of connecting with staff and representing the City to elected officials, commissions, and community groups.

The Deputy Director/T&ES for Environmental Services performs specialized, highly responsible managerial, administrative, supervisory, and technical work in the development, implementation, management, and enforcement of environmental programs within the City and its service area and in the preparation, submission, processing, acquisition, and management of environmental permits for City projects. The employee in this position provides technical, scientific, legal and regulatory advice and assistance to the Director, City Manager, City Council, Planning Commission, other departments City, and the general public.

The incumbent serves as City liaison and principal point of contact with State and Federal government agencies for environment-related projects and programs.

Sanitary Infrastructure: implements the City’s Sanitary Sewer Master Plan and is responsible for planning level engineering related to sanitary sewer capital projects throughout the City.

Stormwater Management: helps protect water quality in the City. The program has three focus areas:
Stormwater Quality, Flooding and Drainage Issues, and Public Infrastructure Maintenance.

Environmental Quality: administers the City's air, water, and noise improvement programs, which help preserve and protect the environment and public health and welfare.

• Develop and implement the City’s 10-year Sanitary Sewer Capital Improvement Program.
• Ensures that the City stays in compliance with state and federal environmental regulations and permits. Prepares, submits and manages the processing of applications for permits for City projects and programs from environmental regulatory agencies and ensures adequate resources and programs are established to comply with various state and federal environmental laws and regulations. Current examples include permits and programs covering the City's Combined Sewer system (CSO) and the City's municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4), which each have separate permits issued under the Clean Water Act by VA Dept of Environmental Quality.
  
  As a result of these permits and conditions, the City is required to have two separate programs administered by the Environmental Services branch. These regulatory issues have serious legal and fiscal implications for the City;
• Coordinates Environmental Programs as relevant to the Eco-City Alexandria Programs. Conducts and coordinates public relations…