JOB SUMMARY
Plans, coordinates, and manages the operations and maintenance activities of the City's Streets division; oversees projects for area of responsibility; administers the City's Pavement Management Program and sidewalk construction and maintenance program; prepares and processes maintenance work orders; coordinates departmental activities with other City departments; responds to public inquiries and complaints; and supervises assigned personnel. Reports to the Assistant Director of Public Works
 

 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND DECISION MAKING

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

1. Responsible for street infrastructure maintenance, operations, design, and construction including: 

• Supervise, prioritize, and schedule City's street crews and workloads.
• Develop, budget, and implement City's infrastructure management programs including street, pavement, sidewalk, bridge, and other associated roadway infrastructure.
• Review, document, and address citizens' complaints and requests related to roadway infrastructure.
• Assign, document, and report street work orders to satisfactory completion.
• Review and approve all roadway construction plans and pavement designs in the public rights-of-way for conformance to City standards.
• Coordinate with the CIP Department and Permit Center to develop City's street and pavement standards and details.
• Identify, prioritize, budget, and coordinate roadway capital improvement projects with other City departments.
• Manage and/or assist with preparation of plans for street and bridge related projects as required.

 2. Provides Administrative and Personnel Management duties including:

• Establishes performance expectations and department goals and priorities for personnel.  Conducts performance evaluations.
  • Schedule and allocate resources of personnel and crews to meet department workload and goals.
  • Monitors and measure personnel workloads, productivity, and performance.
  • Approves and monitors timesheets and leave requests. 
  • Performs hiring, staff development, coaching, counseling and disciplining of division employees. 
  • In collaboration with the Human Resources Department, conducts incident investigations and prepares disciplinary notices as required.
  • Implements new personnel policies and procedures as directed.
  • Identifies and facilitates training of employees.
  • Inspects, reviews, and implements operations for compliance of City, state, and federal regulations and established safety standards.
  • Prepare personnel statistical and progress reports.

3. Provides division, and project management duties including:

• Responsible for the development, monitoring, reporting and assessment of division's budget, goals, and performance measures.
• Develop pavement management system using pavement management software and GIS
• Assist with design of street, bridge, drainage and sidewalk projects in the right-of-way
• Plans, schedules, monitors and allocates resources for in-house public works projects 
• Coordinates inter-departmental activities.
• Prepare project progress reports.

 4. Miscellaneous:

• Serves as the Public Services-Transportation liaison on the Incident Command Team.
• Provides on-call assistance and responds to emergency situations as required.
• Works with other divisions and/or departments as necessary or directed.
• Assists Division crews in the field when workload is excessive, in emergency jobs/situations and for difficult jobs requiring special knowledge and abilities.
• Other duties as required.

DECISION MAKING

• Manages assigned budgets.
• Hires, trains, supervises, and evaluates the performance of assigned personnel.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS (Salary is dependent upon qualifications)

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Four year Bachelor's degree in a related field required.
• Commensurate combination of education and experience may be considered.
• 7 years progressive experience supervising maintenance, operations, and construction of streets and drainage required.
• Must possess a valid Texas Driver's License with an acceptable driving record.