Surface Water Quality Program Manager; Project Implementation

Department:
Storm Water Services Department

Salary: $98,731.00 - $ Commensurate with Experience

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.

• 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

This position is based in Storm Water Services and will manage surface water quality project implementation activities that support watershed protection, restoration, and improvement goals. The position will oversee watershed monitoring, modeling, and planning; stream and wetland restoration projects; stormwater control measure retrofits; watershed improvement projects; stream and wetland permitting; mitigation bank activities; and related capital, grant, and partnership projects.

This position will manage approximately 15 scientists, engineers, and other staff and requires a high level of technical, project management, leadership, budgeting, community engagement, collaborative, and interpersonal skills.

The salary for this position is $98,731.00 - $ commensurate with experience

• Manage approximately 15 scientists, engineers, and other staff responsible for surface water quality planning and project implementation.
• Oversee watershed monitoring, modeling, and planning used to evaluate watershed conditions, identify surface water quality needs, prioritize projects, and measure project outcomes.
• Manage stream and wetland restoration projects, stormwater control measure retrofits, watershed improvement projects, and other surface water quality capital or programmatic projects.
• Ensure monitoring and planning efforts are coordinated with project development, implementation, performance tracking, and long-term watershed improvement goals.
• Ensure projects are strategically planned, developed, implemented, monitored, and maintained to meet city goals, schedules, budgets, and performance expectations.
• Oversee the city's stream and wetland mitigation bank.
• Oversee stream and wetland disturbance permitting for Storm Water Services projects.
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to implement watershed improvement projects, including Storm Water Services, Mecklenburg County, and other agencies or departments.
• Provide management and oversight of assigned budgets, including operating, capital, grant, and mitigation fund budgets.
• Work with the Storm Water Services Budget Manager to manage funding and cash flows for assigned programs and projects.
• Develop and apply best practices for community engagement on projects in partnership with the Communications team.
• Coordinate with regulatory, engineering, construction, maintenance, and community partners to move projects from planning through implementation and monitoring.
• Serve in a leadership role in developing project delivery processes, procedures, guidelines, and performance measures.
• Ensure assigned programs and projects work collaboratively with other city departments and divisions.
• Conduct resource planning to ensure appropriate staffing levels and support organizational adjustments where needed.
• Represent Storm Water Services in presentations to the…