Operations & Maintenance Management Professional Senior

The Public Works Department is accepting applications to fill one (1) full-time Operations & Maintenance Management Professional Senior vacancy at the Anaerobic Digestion Facility located at the Tajiguas Landfill located near Gaviota, California.

Important:
This position is located near Gaviota, California. To be considered for this vacancy, please select "Santa Barbara" as your preferred work location on the application, as Gaviota is not listed. Please select which vacancy location(s) you would like to be considered for current and future vacancies on your application. If you qualify for this position and pass the required selection steps your name will be sent to the hiring manager(s) of the vacancy location(s) where you have expressed that you are willing to work.

Under general direction, performs difficult and complex administrative/analytical functions related to the preparation, review and analysis of a variety of functions pertaining to organizational, operational, and/or budgetary operations within County government and departments; policy and procedure studies in support of assigned department(s) and/or job family; functions as subject matter expert in specific areas of assigned duties; plans, directs, and oversees projects and programs with others in the County and the community;

provides advanced level staff assistance to management staff and executives; and performs other duties as assigned.

This is the third (advanced journey) level in the Management Professional job family. This class is distinguished from subordinate classes within the series by the greater level of responsibility assumed, complexity of duties assigned, independence of action taken, and by the nature, impact, and scope of the public contact. Incumbents in this job class perform the most difficult and responsible types of duties assigned to classes within this series.

Incumbents at this level are required to be fully trained in all policies, procedures, and operations related to assigned areas of responsibility.

Reports to a higher-level manager or may report to an executive. Oversees the work of a team or teams of individual contributors through subordinate managers. May exercise direct and indirect supervision over assigned management, professional, technical, and administrative staff.

The County's Public Works Department employees are committed to efficiently providing, operating and maintaining public works infrastructure, facilities and services to make everyday life as safe and convenient as possible for the public we serve. The Department is comprised of six Divisions:
Administration, Resource Recovery & Waste Management, Surveyor's Office, Transportation, Laguna County Sanitation District and Water Resources/Flood Control District. To learn more about the Public Works Department, please visit: https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)./

For more information on County benefits, please visit here . In addition, applicants from other public sector employers may qualify for:

• Retirement reciprocity
• Time and service credit towards an advanced vacation accrual rate

• Experience preparing reports for regulatory agencies such as Cal Recycle and the Local Enforcement Agency, Air Pollution Control District, Certified Unified Program Agencies including reporting on Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) trends, emergency events, hazardous waste screening outcomes, odor management measures, and compliance documentation.
• Solution and customer service-oriented mindset with the ability to support operators, maintenance staff, engineering teams, contractors, regulatory partners, and the public.
• Experience working in a public sector, municipality or special district with familiarity in solid waste, landfill, digestion, composting, wastewater, or environmental compliance operation.
• Ability to lead and effectively manage multiple situations occurring simultaneously such as equipment failures, alarm events, routine digester purging, and construction-related operational impacts.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to produce clear reports, operating procedures, emergency documentation, project updates, maintenance logs, performance metrics, and stakeholder communications.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with operations/maintenance staff, engineers, regulatory inspectors, contractors, consultants, and diverse people and personalities.
• Strong understanding of best practices in performance management including use of SCADA data analytics, predictive maintenance indicators, monitoring of operational KPIs (biogas output, digester temperature and pressure, compost quality metrics), and continual evaluation of system reliability and staff performance.

These examples are not intended to reflect all duties performed within the job and…