Engineering Program Manager

Welcome to the City of Charlotte Charlotte is America’s Queen City, opening her arms to a diverse and inclusive community of residents, businesses and visitors alike. Here you will find a safe, family-oriented city where people work together to help everyone thrive. The mission of the City of Charlotte is to deliver quality public services and promote the safety, health, and quality of life for all residents.

Department:
Charlotte Water Department

• Attracting and retaining a skilled and diverse workforce
• Valuing teamwork, openness, accountability, productivity, and employee development
• Providing all customers with courteous, responsive, accessible, and seamless quality services
• Taking initiative to identify, analyze, and solve problems
• Collaborating with stakeholders to make informed decisions

Charlotte’s local government, with more than 9,000 employees and a total budget of $4.49 billion budget, works hard to ensure that the community will be a winning city for everyone – a truly remarkable place to live, work, learn and play.

Charlotte Water is an enterprise department of the City of Charlotte and one of the largest public water and sewer service providers in the southeast with over 330,000 customer accounts and over 1300 employees. Our service area includes the City of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County and the towns of Huntersville, Cornelius, Davidson, Mint Hill, Matthews, and Pineville. Charlotte Water’s FY 27 operating budget is $685.6 million and a five-year capital program of $2.5 billion.

The salary for this position is: $ - $, Commensurate with Experience.

This position provides management duties for the Environmental Management Division (EMD) engineering of Charlotte Water, and the Environmental Management System (EMS)/continuous improvement. Work involves monitoring and implementation of EMD’s CIP, rehab and upgrade improvements projects and studies for the City’s Water Resource Recovery Facilities, Resource Recovery Programs, and Biosolids/Residuals handling, also ensuring the EMD engineering staff supports the division’s compliance programs as necessary for various permits such as Dam Safety, Stormwater/Spill Response, and Reclaimed Water.

This position ensures the maintenance of the division’s ISO 14001 certification for the EMS. EMD’s Engineering Program Manager works to make sure EMD engineering staff are working with necessary teams within the division to identify projects that need to be completed and meet permit and EMS requirements. This position will participate and provide input on needed capital improvements, contract and task order administration, and continuous improvement efforts related to wastewater treatment and biosolids treatment and handling.

The EMD Engineering Program Manager will promote and develop internal staff knowledge and skills to become active participants on project teams to assist plant operations, provide a high level of customer service, and to represent EMD within the department and City and in public facing situations.

• Participate and provide input on needed capital improvement projects involving the City’s Water Resource Recovery Facilities and wastewater treatment.
• Assist and participate as a consultant member on project design and construction teams.
• Attend EMD-related CIP/rehab project design meetings and construction status meetings at least once per month. Complete review of plans and specifications and provide input.
• Monitor and implement EMD CIP, rehab and upgrade projects and studies.
• Coordinates, and reviews construction engineering plans, designs, and specifications.
• Provides technical information, advice, and assistance in field of assignments related to wastewater treatment, stormwater management, and reclaimed water.
• Work with the EMD division manager to reprioritize current projects and funding to account for and satisfy urgent needs and challenges.
• Provides oversight to EMD Senior Engineers for division-managed projects for project during design and construction; assists with field decisions; manages root control program.
• Responds to internal and external customer…