Stormwater Utility Manager

Under executive direction, plans, directs, and evaluates the operation, inspection, maintenance, repair, and improvement of the City’s stormwater management system. The position provides strategic and operational leadership for stormwater conveyance assets, drainage facilities, water-quality infrastructure, field crews, inspection programs, regulatory compliance, emergency response, and contracted services. Work requires considerable independent judgment, coordination across City departments and outside agencies, and accountability for safe, reliable, cost-effective service delivery.

• Directs the day-to-day and long-range operations of the Stormwater Division, including preventive and corrective maintenance, inspections, cleaning, mowing, vegetation management, excavation, ditch and canal maintenance, pipe and structure repairs, street sweeping, and maintenance of stormwater treatment and water-quality facilities.
• Develops and implements risk-based inspection and preventive-maintenance programs for stormwater pipes, inlets, manholes, outfalls, culverts, ditches, canals, ponds, baffle boxes, control structures, pump systems, and other drainage assets.
• Establishes service levels, priorities, schedules, production goals, and performance measures; evaluates work-order, asset-condition, inspection, complaint, flooding, and maintenance data to direct resources toward the highest operational risks and community needs.
• Leads the City’s operational response to flooding, tropical weather, severe rainfall, infrastructure failures, illicit discharges, and other stormwater emergencies; coordinates preparedness, field response, damage assessment, recovery, and after-action improvements.
• Ensures compliance with applicable federal, state, and local stormwater requirements, including the City’s Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) permit obligations, inspection and documentation requirements, pollution-prevention practices, and required reports and records.
• Coordinates with engineering staff and consultants on condition assessments, master planning, rehabilitation, capital improvements, development-related drainage concerns, construction impacts, and the transition of completed assets into City operation and maintenance.
• Reviews plans, specifications, technical reports, maintenance-of-traffic needs, and proposed operational changes for maintainability, accessibility, safety, lifecycle cost, and consistency with City standards and field conditions.
• Prepares and administers the division’s operating and capital budgets; develops cost estimates, forecasts staffing and equipment needs, monitors expenditures, and supports rate, assessment, grant, and funding analyses.
• Develops scopes of work, technical specifications, bid documents, and contract requirements; participates in consultant and contractor selection and administers contracts for inspections, cleaning, repairs, construction, equipment, and specialized stormwater services.
• Directs, selects, trains, coaches, and evaluates assigned personnel; ensures adequate coverage, succession planning, consistent work practices, and compliance with City personnel policies and collective bargaining agreements.
• Establishes and enforces safe work practices for confined spaces, excavation and trenching, traffic control, heavy equipment, work near water, hazardous conditions, and emergency operations; investigates incidents and implements corrective action.
• Responds to complex resident, business, elected-official, and interagency concerns; conducts or directs field investigations, explains findings and limitations, recommends corrective actions, and ensures timely follow-up.
• Builds effective working relationships with other City divisions, regulatory agencies,…