Are you looking for a contagiously positive culture? The City of Grand Prairie's Public Works Department is looking for a Utility Operations Manager!

Grand Prairie is seeking an innovative, progressive, and self-motivated leader with a collaborative management style who will engage employees through teamwork and motivation. The preferred candidate will also have at least five years of increasingly responsible experience in utility administration and in a managerial or executive leadership position — including financial management, strategic planning, infrastructure, and/or water quality operations, ideally for a municipal entity.

The City of Grand Prairie, Texas, is ideally located in the heart of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Just minutes south of the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, the community is home to more than 195,200 people. The City’s ideal location, excellent access, forward-focused local leaders, and hometown feeling are just some of the qualities that make Grand Prairie attractive to residents and new businesses.

Job Summary

This position has responsibilities that require lifting up to 10 pounds on occasion.
Oversees daily the water utility system maintenance by reviewing and approving all resources and methodologies employed by the divisions; and ensuring that the utility operates effectively and at optimum levels.

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  Administers water and wastewater capital project budgets by ensuring adequate funds are available to offset all cost and charges related to the operation, maintenance, and construction of the water/wastewater systems, tracking and authorizing payments for the construction and or replacement of water utility system infrastructures.
  
• Supervises personnel by observing and monitoring work tasks; providing feedback to employees; evaluating work performance; assisting employees to correct deficiencies; implementing disciplinary and termination procedures when necessary; selecting and hiring new employees and coordinating training for department personnel.
  
• Administers customer related services by coordinating daily with all division actions related to assisting all internal and external customers such as inter-city departments, consultants, private utilities, and individual customers.
  
• Performs budget preparation by compiling fiscal plans for the coming year; and coordinating fiscal plan review meetings with subordinate staff, immediate supervisor, and all other staff as required to formalize the Annual Operating
  
• All other duties as assigned by a supervisor/manager within your department/division.

Any combination equivalent to experience and training that would provide the required knowledge, skills, and abilities may qualify. A typical way to obtain the knowledge, skills and abilities would be:

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  Education: Work requires knowledge of a specific vocational, administrative, or technical nature which may be obtained with a two-year associate degree, diploma or equivalent from a college, technical, business, vocational, or correspondence school.
  
• Experience: Over 5 years of related experience.
  
• Licenses: Valid Driver's License required.
  
• Certifications Required: Valid Texas Class C Driver's License, TCEQ Class B Water or Class B Distribution License, TCEQ Class B or Class III Wastewater License.
  
• Reading: Advanced - Ability to read and understand complex items such as literature, proposals, legal documents, financial documents, contracts, technical items, and detailed reports. This level typically obtained at college level or above.
  
• Math: Advanced - Ability to apply fundamental concepts of theories, work with advanced mathematical operations methods, and functions of real and complex variables. Ordinarily, such education is obtained at the college level or above. However, it may be obtained from experience and self-study.
  
• Writing: Intermediate - Ability to write reports, prepare business letters, expositions, and summaries with proper format, punctuation, spelling, and grammar, using all parts of speech. Ordinarily, such education is obtained in high school up to college. However, it may be obtained from experience and self-study.
  
• Managerial: Receives administrative direction: Within this job, the employee normally performs the duty assignment within broad parameters defined by general organizational requirements and accepted practices. Total end results determine effectiveness of job performance.
• Budget Responsibility: Has responsibility for final approval of at least one departmental budget and presents the budget(s) to Senior Management. Is authorized to approve budgeted expenditures up to the amount that requires the approval of Senior Management. (Division Managers)
  
• Supervisory / Organizational Control: Work requires managing and monitoring work performance by directing subordinate supervisors or administrators, including making final decisions on hiring and disciplinary actions, evaluating program/work objectives and effectiveness, and realigning work and staffing assignments, as needed.
  
• Complexity Work is of the broadest scope dealing with highly complex concepts or issues of great importance to the City. Highly important policies, procedures or precedents may be approved, rejected, or recommended to a Department Head or CMO by individuals in this classification.
  
• Interpersonal / Human Relations Skills Final decisions regarding policy development and implementation are made and/or recommended. Interaction with others outside the city requires exercising participative management skills that support team efforts and quality processes.