JOB SUMMARY
Brookhaven’s Vision is to be nationally recognized as a beautiful community where multiple generations can live in safety, flourish in business, and succeed in a historic, sustainable environment with exceptional education and transportation options.
The City is in need of a Director for the Public Works Department which provides management oversight, maintenance, operations and capital improvements to the City's streets, sidewalks, stormwater systems, traffic signals, roadway signs, and rights-of-way. Activities within the department include roadway and sidewalk repair, roadway tree maintenance and preservation, street paving, sidewalk construction, traffic calming coordination and implementation, transportation and stormwater development plan review, snow and ice removal, and emergency downed tree and debris removal.
Well-planned and maintained municipal infrastructure provides a plethora of social, economic, environmental, and aesthetic benefits. In addition to general operations of the department, the Director will work with a cross-disciplinary team to implement the City’s enterprise-wide initiatives including equitable planning, community engagement, sustainability, customer service, and transparency.
You will be challenged by diverse projects and the fast pace of the city. Bring your innovative ideas with you and help us grow Brookhaven’s public works function.
Under the general direction of the City Manager’s Office, the Public Works Director plans, directs, manages, coordinates, and administers the operations of the Public Works Department, including Roadway and Infrastructure Maintenance, Engineering, Traffic Control, Drainage Infrastructure Maintenance, Streetlighting, and Stormwater Utility and SPLOST program functions.
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
- Plans, organizes, directs, controls, and evaluates the work of the Public Works Department using asset management principles and other industry standards.
- Oversees the management of the day-to-day administration of the Department, including financial health and resiliency, budget, capital projects, utility enterprises and coordination, ongoing maintenance, infrastructure stewardship and development, personnel and labor relations, and customer service activities.
- Originates goals, policies, objectives, and priorities for services and implement them where and when needed.
- Directs strategic transportation planning, funding, and project delivery.
- Maintains currency of policy and practice with the organizational needs of the City and with applicable federal and State laws and City Codes.
- Provides technical support to various City departments.
- Develops and implements of Sustainable Brookhaven program activities for Public Works.
- Hires, trains, assigns, directs, supervises, evaluates, counsels, and disciplines personnel.
- Oversees transit coordination efforts.
- Participates in the development of City master planning documents and execution of identified Public Works projects from those efforts.
- Ensures compliance with applicable environmental rules and regulations including MS4, NPDES, and the City’s Local Issuing Authority (LIA) Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the GA EPD.
- Serves as Project Manager for a variety of City projects; establishes and maintains project scope, schedules, and budgets.
- Manages the City’s right-of-way encroachment permit process.
- Manages the City’s street sweeping program and planning efforts.
- Oversees contract staff to assign, follow-up, and report citizen service requests, general inquiries from the City staff, elected officials, media, etc.
- Develops and implements protocol for outside vendors including on-call services and after-hours response.
- Ensures maintenance of the appropriate logs and tracking records of the resolution of all such requests and complaints.
- Acts as a liaison for outside agencies on infrastructure matters including, but not limited to, Georgia Department of Transportation, neighboring cities and counties, Georgia Power, DeKalb County (Watershed, Sanitation, GIS, Public Works, etc.), Georgia Environmental Protection Division, Atlanta Regional Commission, Federal Highway Administration, Metropolitan Atlanta Regional Transit Authority, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and neighboring Community Improvement Districts (CIDs).
- Collaborates with City staff, elected and appointed officials, property owners, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and state and federal agencies through meetings, written correspondence, presentations, etc.
- Maintains effective working relationships with community advocates, neighborhood groups, homeowners’ associations, and other civic organizations particularly as it relates to bicycle, pedestrian, and other non-vehicular transportation modes.
- Includes enforcement authority for noticing and citations for code violations in the purview of the Department.
- Assists City management in the development of the annual operating and capital budgets, with a special emphasis on progress and execution of the City’s master planning documents and capital improvement program.
- Has working knowledge of the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) Plan Development Process (PDP).
- Has experience in Georgia MS4 General Permit, SWMP, and MS4 Annual Reports
- Has experience in implementing Complete Streets or similar policies with emphasis on bicycle facilities
- Attends city council and other meetings to present budgets, activity reports, and plans for future activities.
- Performs other related duties as required or assigned.
