Public Works Supervisor - Wastewater Operations

The City of Bothell is seeking a Public Works Supervisor - Wastewater to join the Utilities Division. This position serves as a key operational leader responsible for coordinating sewer and stormwater field operations, managing maintenance priorities, supporting emergency response, and ensuring reliable infrastructure performance.

The role provides field leadership through staff training, coaching, and workforce development while promoting safety, regulatory compliance, and efficient delivery of critical wastewater and stormwater services.

• Default schedule will be the following: Mondays-Thursdays (4/10) every Friday off (6:00 am - 4:30 pm)

• Lead field crews, coordinate daily operations, training, schedules, and contractor activities.
• Respond to customer concerns, coordinate public notifications, and improve operational procedures and performance.
• Coordinate daily operations and scheduling for sewer, stormwater, and related field crews, ensuring efficient maintenance, inspections, equipment utilization, resource allocation, and operational continuity.
• Manage maintenance priorities and infrastructure reliability by overseeing preventive maintenance, repairs, regulatory compliance, environmental protection, and backlog reduction across wastewater and stormwater systems.
• Support emergency response and field operations by coordinating responses to sewer backups, spills, drainage issues, infrastructure failures, and other operational emergencies.
• Train, mentor, and develop staff through technical instruction, coaching, cross-training, onboarding, and reinforcement of operational, safety, and performance standards.
• Ensure regulatory compliance and workplace safety by promoting adherence to Washington State DOE, King County Industrial Waste, CMOM, and City standards while enforcing safe work practices, PPE use, and permit requirements.

• Demonstrate honesty and transparency in all actions and communications.
• Identify creative solutions to challenges and implement improvements.
• Consistently deliver accurate, high-quality work with attention to detail.
• Learn and adapt to new tools and systems with ease to support work efficiency.
• Strengthen internal and external partnerships to enhance collective success.

• The City is comprised of 13.6 square miles within both King and Snohomish Counties and is home to 51,760 people (2025). This figure is projected to grow to nearly 75,000 over the next 20 years in tandem with Bothell’s increasingly vibrant downtown and life sciences employment cluster near the I-405 corridor.
• Learn more about the City’s Organizational Values and the Bothell’s City Council 2040 Vision and Strategic Priorities.
• Learn more about the City of Bothell's Public Works Department here!

The City of Bothell is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to providing equal opportunity for all employees and applicants.

Our employees are people with different strengths, experiences and backgrounds, who share a passion for improving people’s lives.

The City of Bothell recruits, hires, trains, promotes, compensates, and administers all personnel actions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, mental or physical disability, ancestry, medical condition, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.

We seek to recruit and hire talented and engaged job candidates from a widely diverse range of backgrounds. We celebrate the diversity in our workplace and community and believe it makes us stronger.

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