Sr. Capital Projects Officer - Stormwater & Transportation

City of Fort Worth, TX
Fort Worth, Texas United States  View Map
Posted: Oct 26, 2024
  • Salary: $122,187 to $165,000 annually compensation USD
  • Full Time
  • Project Management
  • Transportation or Transit
  • Water and Wastewater Treatment
  • Job Description

    Pay Range: $122,187 to $165,000 annually compensation

    Job Posting Closing on: Friday, November 22, 2024

    Workdays & Hours: Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm; Some evening/weekend work required

    Benefits for this position include: 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, Professional Development Opportunities, and much more.

    The City of Fort Worth is one of the fastest-growing large cities in the U.S. Our employees serve the needs of nearly 1,000,000 residents, promoting our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability.

    The City of Fort Worth Development Services Department seeks to fill a key leadership role: Senior Capital Projects Officer (SCPO) to oversee the Stormwater and Transportation sections of Development Services. This position reports to the Assistant Director of Development Services - Infrastructure Division.

    As a key organization leader, this role works with the Mayor, City Council, City Manager’s Office, and other high-level public/private stakeholders to develop and implement strategic collaborative programs, projects, and initiatives to better the City of Fort Worth. Typical work activities include team leadership, divisional and departmental budget development. The successful candidate will manage a division of skillful Engineers and Engineering Technicians responsible for plan review, contract management, and public infrastructure delivery for drainage and traffic needs as it relates to new development.

    Minimum Qualifications
    • Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in project /program management, engineering, landscape architecture, planning, public administration, business administration, or a related field.
    • Five (5) years of administrative and supervisory experience preferably within a local government environment.

    Preferred Qualifications:
    • Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills.
    • Collaborative and organized work style.
    • Business/strategic plan development.
    • Seven (7) or more years of in-depth knowledge of and experience in Project Management.
    • Highly conversant with general civil engineering fundamental principles, practices, and techniques.
    • Identifying and tracking key metrics and performance goals.
    • Prior experience with engineering, transportation or drainage design and construction.
    • Seven (7) or more years of work experience in local government initiatives or projects, either as a public sector employee or private consultant preferred, including project management experience (scoping, budgets, schedules, and contract administration.
    • Demonstrated success in evaluating and streamlining processes to optimize service delivery.
    • Possess and encourage a solid organizational customer-service ethic.
    • Ability to efficiently distill complex processes and technical matters to develop practical and actionable plans.
    • Proven experience and skill in personnel management.
    • Management and leadership experience in developing talent and building high-performance teams.

    The Sr. Capital Project Officer - Stormwater and Transportation responsibilities:
    • Coordinates the operations and activities of employees to drive efficiency and optimize service delivery to meet community needs.
    • Overseeing staff and personnel.
    • Prioritizing tasks.
    • Performing and displaying customer service related tasks.
    • Review processes for potential improvements to related service deliveries.
    • Overseeing special and miscellaneous projects.

    Working Conditions

    Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically require touching, talking, hearing, seeing, grasping, standing, walking and repetitive motions.

    Physical Demand

    Sedentary Work - Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, a negligible amount of force frequently, and/or or constantly having to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met

    Conditions of Employment

    The City of Fort Worth is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is the policy and practice of the City to recruit, hire, train and promote a diverse workforce without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, or another non-merit factor.

    The City of Fort Worth is committed to full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.

    Candidates who do not meet the Education requirement, may be considered if they have more relevant work experience than the position requires. Those selected for employment will be required to pass Pre-Employment checks depending on the position requirements. Those could include, but are not limited to: criminal background check, drug screen, education verification, etc. criminal convictions will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Employees are paid by direct deposit only.
  • ABOUT THE COMPANY

    • City of Fort Worth
    • City of Fort Worth

    The Community

    The City of Cowboys & Culture is known for its Texas hospitality. The stunning and sprawling City of
    Fort Worth is one of the fastest-growing cities in the U.S. And it’s no wonder — With great neighborhoods, scenic terrain and a rich history of arts and culture, paired with world-class opportunities for business and education, it’s not only fun to visit Fort Worth, it’s even more rewarding to call it home.

    Fort Worth truly offers all the benefits and amenities of a bustling metropolitan city, while keeping the small- town charm that keeps it unpretentious and charismatic in all the right ways. Designated as one of America’s “Most Livable Communities” by the Partners for Livable Communities, the city truly offers a melting pot of culture, commerce, community and yes, cowboys.

    There are over a dozen remarkable districts full of treasured history among modern luxuries and unique places to have fun, making it the No. 1 tourist destination in Texas and welcoming more than 9.4 million visitors annually.

    Being one of the fastest-growing among large cities in the country, Fort Worth has received multiple accolades, including number one downtown (Livability), and the second-best City in the nation for job seekers (Forbes). Our employees serve the needs of over 900,000 residents representing culturally diverse communities.

    Exciting Growth & Future Development

    One of the most fascinating aspects of the City of Fort Worth is its almost unprecedented growth over the past several years. Both in terms of population and industry, and as the 12th largest city in the United States, Fort Worth is truly booming — which presents both challenges and opportunities to truly develop this city in the right way. Every 30 minutes a new person moves to Fort Worth, so we’re looking for candidates who can embrace an evergrowing and changing environment and improve on it with solutions that work for the entire community of Fort Worth.

    Mission

    We are working together to build a strong community that others can look to as a pillar of unity and excellence. Through grassroots efforts within the community, and large scale construction and transportation plans that continue to add the infra- structure a growing city like Fort Worth needs, we’ll provide the public services our community requires to continually cultivate the unique city we call home.

    Vision

    Fort Worth’s vision is to be the most livable and best managed city in the country. We’ll do this by taking care of our citizens, implementing the highest quality standards in our schools, continually improving the neighborhoods we thrive in and the facets of the city that make our town so unique.

    Benefits That Are Well Worth It

    The City of Fort Worth continues to be dedicated to its employees’ well-being by providing competitive health benefits, a well-rounded wellness program and a Zero Accident Philosophy® workplace. All regular full-time employees and those employees who work 30–39 hours per week are eligible for all City of Fort Worth Benefits. Part-time employees who work 20–29 hours per week are eligible for dental, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, flexible spending accounts, 457 Deferred Compensation plan and other voluntary benefits.

    Medical Program

    The City offers two plan options through Meritain Health, an Aetna company.

    The Health Center Plan – Offers employees and their family’s

    primary health care services that are 100% completely free and unlimited. Employees can visit any one of the three City of Fort Worth Employee Health Centers and receive guaranteed same or next day appointments for sick visits. Also, services are available at any one of the five satellite locations that serves employees across the city.

    The Consumer Choice Plan – Is offered to employees at no cost or low monthly premiums to cover eligible dependents and provides the financial benefits of a Health Savings Account (HSA).

    • Preventative services are covered at 100% on both plans.
    • Prescription Drug coverage including mail order pharmacy are also included.

    Vacation

    Eligible for 3 weeks of vacation: After successful completion of probationary period (usually
    6 months), employees may take time off for rest, relaxation, vacation, illness, religious observances, and personal business.

    Holidays

    Available on the first day of employment, the city provides employees with paid holidays, including two personal holidays.

    Wellness Program

    The city’s Healthy Challenge Wellness Program rewards all full-time, benefit-eligible employees on the city’s health insurance. The Healthy Challenge Program utilizes a points system. Participants may earn points throughout the year (Jan. 1-Dec. 15) for completing specific program activities and participants can redeem points at the end of the year for a cash reward. By participating, individuals can earn $150, $200 or $250 by accumulating program points.

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