Director, Engineering & Public Works

Company: Town of Jupiter
Location: Jupiter
Posted on: April 4, 2025

Job Description:

This classification provides leadership, strategic direction, and oversight for all Engineering and Public Works operations. This position ensures the efficient planning, design, construction, maintenance, and management of the Town's infrastructure and public assets. The Director develops and implements departmental goals and budgets while ensuring compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, and safety standards. This position reports to the Senior Director of Community Development and supervises the personnel in the Department of Engineering and Public Works.
The following duties are normal for this position. The omission of specific statements of the duties does not exclude them from the classification if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment for this classification. Other duties may be required and assigned.
Supervises, leads, directs, and evaluates assigned staff, directing and prioritizing work, managing staff to project timelines and deliverables, solving employee concerns and problems, counseling, disciplining, and completing employee performance appraisals, and acting as subject matter expert and decision-maker in assigned areas of responsibility.Directs and prioritizes work; organizes and assigns work; monitors the status of work in progress and inspects completed work to ensure alignment with timelines and deliverables; and leads assigned staff to guide them through complex problem situations. Accomplishes project and organization goals by getting things done through others, holding staff accountable to timelines and deliverables, and collaborating effectively with team members within and outside the department.
Ensures departmental compliance with all applicable laws, rules, regulations, standards, policies, and procedures and adherence to established safety procedures. Conducts inspections, monitors work environment, and monitors the use of safety equipment to ensure the safety of employees and other individuals; initiates any actions necessary to correct deviations or violations.
Consults with the Town Manager, Town Council, and other officials to review department operations and activities, review and resolve problems, receive advice and direction, and provide recommendations; responds to questions and concerns from administrative and elected officials.
Collaborates with other departments on projects and work activities in order to achieve desired outcomes. Partners with contractors, outside agencies, other municipalities, or other organizations as needed.
Develops and proposes department budgets, administrates approved budgets, and approves expenditures for compliance with those approved budgets. Develops long and short-term plans, goals, and objectives for the department and engineering-related Town projects.
Coordinates projects involving private development review and inspection; reviews engineering plans and plats to ensure conformance with Town codes, development orders, and site plans; coordinates inspection of development site work to ensure conformance with approved plans; provides engineering support to Planning and Community Development Departments in support of the planning process; negotiates construction agreements with developers and public agencies.
Directs and coordinates projects involving capital program development and execution; prepares project plans, costs, and schedules; prepares requests for proposals; evaluates proposals, selects contractors, and executes engineering consulting contracts and other contract agreements; prepares plans and specifications or coordinates preparation of plans/specifications by consultants, to construct capital projects; administers, inspects, and accepts construction contracts. Negotiates, administers, and oversees contracts with contractors and consultants, ensuring compliance with project budgets and resolving contract disputes as needed.
Provides expertise and support in areas of responsibility by participating in project teams for capital projects led by other departments; leads project planning and design efforts, including site surveys, feasibility studies, cost estimations, and development of construction plans and specifications; prepares studies, prepares contract documents, advertises contract awards, and administers construction for other departments; responds to public inquiries about engineering issues, rights-of-way, plats, and plans; prepares traffic studies relating to speed, traffic calming, and sight distances; prepares street lighting studies and reviews street lighting requests.
Oversees public works projects; oversees street maintenance and repair projects; oversees maintenance and repair of Town vehicles and equipment; oversees maintenance and repair of buildings and associated systems; oversees operations of Town sign shop; coordinates street and traffic signage; coordinates landscape maintenance at Town Hall and road rights-of-way; negotiates, administers, and inspects Town refuse collection contract; reviews public works maintenance management reports and recommends improvements.
Compiles or monitors various administrative and/or statistical data; performs research; makes applicable calculations; analyzes data and identifies trends; prepares/generates reports and maintains records.
Oversees inventory of department equipment and supplies; ensures availability of adequate equipment, tools, parts, supplies, or other materials needed to conduct projects; initiates orders for new/replacement materials.
Collaborates with Community Relations to inform the public about project updates, address concerns, and coordinate public input during the planning and execution phases of public works projects.
Attends meetings, serves on committees, and makes presentations as needed, both externally and internally.
Maintains a current knowledge of applicable policies, laws, and regulations; maintains an awareness of new materials, procedures, trends, and advances in the profession; reads professional literature; maintains professional affiliations; attends conferences, workshops, and training sessions as appropriate.

ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS
Performs general/clerical tasks, including answering telephone calls, typing documents, making copies, sending/receiving faxes, filing documentation, or processing incoming/outgoing mail.
Collaborates with other employees or departments as needed.
Performs other related duties as required.


Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, or a related technical field.
Must demonstrate experience and/or training in public administration, business management, or a related field.
Must possess a minimum of six (6) years of previous experience and/or training that includes progressively responsible public works operations, civil engineering, construction project management, contract administration, budgeting, and personnel management.
Must possess a minimum of five (5) years of direct supervisory experience managing engineering or public works personnel, including professional engineers, construction managers, and technical staff.
Must have excellent organizational, oral, and written communication skills and the ability to work with both internal and external individuals and/or organizations.
Must be able to effectively lead a team in accomplishing shared objectives and goals.
A comparable amount of training, education, or experience can be substituted for the education requirement.
A valid Florida driver's license is required. For application purposes, a valid driver's license from any state (equivalent to a State of Florida Class E) may be utilized, and the ability to obtain the State of Florida license within thirty (30) days from the date of employment is required.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
A valid State of Florida Professional Engineer (P.E.) license.
Master's Degree in Public Administration, Business Administration, Civil Engineering, or a related technical field.
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
Leadership Aptitude:Requires the ability to lead and manage change within the organization to meet the strategic goals for the Town of Jupiter. Creates buy-in, models the way, and encourages positive contributions, attitudes and investment in those they lead.Functional Reasoning:Requires the ability to apply principles of influence systems, such as motivation, incentive, and leadership, and to exercise independent judgment to apply facts and principles for developing approaches and techniques to resolve problems.Situational Reasoning:Requires the ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness, and creativity in situations involving the direction, control, and planning of an entire program or set of programs.Data Utilization: Requires the ability to coordinate, manage, and/or correlate data. Includes exercising judgment in determining time, place, and/or sequence of operations, referencing data analyses to determine the necessity for revision of organizational components, and in the formulation of operational strategy. Human Interaction: Requires the ability to function in a managerial capacity for a division or organizational unit. Includes the ability to make decisions on procedural and technical levels. Equipment, Machinery, Tools, and Materials Utilization: Requires the ability to operate, maneuver, and/or control the actions of equipment, machinery, tools, and/or materials used in performing essential functions. Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference, descriptive, advisory, and/or design data and information.Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; ability to calculate decimals and percentages; may include the ability to perform mathematical operations with fractions; may include the ability to compute discount, interest, profit and loss, ratio and proportion; may include the ability to calculate surface areas, volumes, weights, and measures.
ADA COMPLIANCEPhysical Ability: Tasks require the ability to exert light physical effort in sedentary to light work, but which may involve some lifting, carrying, pushing and/or pulling of objects and materials of light weight (5-10 pounds). Tasks may involve extended periods of time at a keyboard or work station.Sensory Requirements: Some tasks require the ability to perceive and discriminate colors or shades of colors, sounds, depth, texture, and visual cues or signals. Some tasks require the ability to communicate orally.Environmental Factors: Essential functions are regularly performed without exposure to adverse environmental conditions.
The Town of Jupiter, Florida, is an Equal Opportunity Employer. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Town will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities and encourages both prospective and current employees to discuss potential accommodations with the employer.



Compensation details: 65.02 Hourly Wage



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