Assistant Division Manager – Asset Management, WMS

Assistant Division Manager – Asset Management, WMS2

Recruitment #2026-9-6601

Full-time, Permanent, WMS2, Non-represented position

Location:

Natural Resources Building
- Olympia, WA

Work Hours and Partial Telework flexibility may be available and considered

Salary: $8,574.00 - $9,998.00 Monthly

To allow for growth and salary progression, the full salary range is: $8,574.00 - $10,526.00 Monthly

Review of applications is ongoing. We reserve the right to make a hiring decision or close this recruitment at any time after 9/24/26. It is in your best interest to submit materials as soon as possible.

Want to join something GREAT and make a difference?

The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has an exciting opportunity within our Aquatic Resources Division. Come help us manage state-owned aquatic lands so that people and fish and wildlife thrive, businesses and eelgrass meadows grow, and waterfront public access and salmon are preserved in perpetuity.

We are looking for an experienced supervisor to be the Aquatics Assistant Division Manager for Asset Management, leading an amazing team of professional staff who manage, protect, and restore aquatic lands across Washington State.

The Assistant Division Manager serves as a leader in both Asset Management and the Aquatic Resources Division in developing and maintaining an inclusive, respectful, and welcoming work environment for all. The position also works directly with individual citizens, private industry, Tribes, other governments, and partners to ensure resources are managed to preserve ecological and economic viability, including cleanup, pollution prevention, habitat conservation and protection, restoration, and assessment of the proper use of state-owned aquatic lands.

If you are fascinated by and enjoy the following, you may be an ideal candidate:

• The DNR mission
• Encouraging and supporting diversity, innovation, collaboration, and creativity within your team and in partnership with DNR staff across the state
• Mastering unusual, often technical topics such as sediment quality standards, SEPA, legal descriptions, scientific research, and environmental protection statutes and rules
• Helping your staff, colleagues, and senior managers solve complex public policy, environmental, and real property management problems
• Fostering water-dependent uses, encouraging direct public use and access, and managing natural resources in a sustainable manner by developing and supporting implementation of habitat stewardship measures
• Supporting further development of programs that use boats, ROVs, drones, and other innovative approaches to managing Aquatic Reserves and other aquatic lands
• Supporting a successful, growing Derelict Vessel Removal team that operates statewide
• Managing Non-routine work; even experienced staff learn something new nearly every day
• Providing excellent customer service both internally and externally

Responsibilities:

This position acts as a principal assistant to the Aquatic Resources Division Manager. This position is responsible for management of the Asset Management Section, which includes:
Derelict Vessel Removal Program, Restoration and Derelict Structure Removal Program, Sediment Quality Program (including Port Management), and Aquatic Reserves Program.

Specific objectives of the ADM are to:

• Build and lead a team that encourages and supports diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in concert with innovation, collaboration, and creativity.
• Maintain and foster an inclusive and welcoming culture in the Aquatic Resources Division.
• Develop respectful relationships characterized by clear communication with our partners, lessees/grantees, and applicants.
• Provide oversight of derelict vessel removals and guide further enhancement of the program.
• Provide oversight of the development and implementation of aquatic restoration and removal of derelict structures.
• Provide oversight of the creation and management of aquatic reserves.
• Provide oversight of sediment quality management.
• Protect, restore and enhance aquatic ecosystems through management actions.
• Provide expert guidance and oversight to facilitate consistent and lawful application of programs managed by the ADM.
• Ensure business practices lead to an increase in efficiency, accountability and responsiveness.

These issues require a high level of critical thinking and political awareness. Coordinating with division experts, executive management, external interest holders, legislators, and legislative staff is critical as these groups are often…