• Job Description

  Req#: 4962268

  Join Our Team as an Engineering Manager!

  Are you ready to lead and make a lasting impact? As an Engineering Manager in the Public Works Department, you will lead the Water Resources Program, ensure environmental compliance, and develop long-term strategies and programs to meet the City’s water resource needs effectively.

  Reporting directly to the Deputy Director of Public Works Services, you will supervise a team of professionals and collaborate with City divisions, departments, and external agencies to advance key initiatives. This dynamic, strategic role combines advanced management principles, short- and long-term planning, and impactful decision-making to shape the City’s future.

  The first review of applications will be on July 3, 2025.

  
  
  

  Examples of Typical Job Functions

  • Direct planning and engineering projects to meet future water resource needs.
  • Oversee groundwater and recycled water management, environmental compliance, and water rights administration.
  • Manage GIS database development and water efficiency programs.
  • Develop and implement goals, policies, and priorities to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Manage budgets, staff recruitment, training, and evaluations.
  • Prepare and oversee requests for proposals, negotiate contracts, and ensure quality service delivery.
  • Conduct organizational studies, present reports, and collaborate with various stakeholders.
  • Monitor changes in regulations, technology, and trends to ensure compliance and innovation.
  • Represent the City in interactions and collaborations with intergovernmental agencies.

  Any combination of training and experience that would provide the required knowledge, skills, and abilities is qualifying. A typical way to obtain the required qualifications would be:
  
  Education and Experience:

  • Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
  • Five (5) years of progressively responsible experience, including two (2) years in a supervisory role in a public sector agency.

  Licenses and Certifications:

  • Valid California Driver’s License (maintained throughout employment).
  • Registration as a Professional Engineer in the State of California (maintained throughout employment).

  Knowledge and Skills:

  • Strong understanding of water resources management and applied water engineering techniques.
  • Administrative principles and practices, including goal setting, program development, implementation, and evaluation, and project management.
  • Principles and practices of budget development and administration.
  • Principles and practices of employee supervision, including work planning, assignment, review and evaluation, and the training of staff in work procedures.
  • Principles and techniques for working with groups and fostering effective team interaction to ensure teamwork is conducted smoothly.
  • Applicable federal, state, and local laws, regulatory codes, ordinances, and procedures relevant to assigned areas of responsibility.
  • Organization and management practices as applied to the development, analysis, and evaluation of programs, policies, and operational needs of the assigned area of responsibility.
  • Principles and practices of contract administration and management.
  • Engineering principles, methods, and practices as applied to public works, including planning, development, design, and construction.
  • Techniques for reviewing designs, plans, specifications, estimates, reports, and recommendations related to public works projects.
  • Budgetary, work planning, and time/material cost estimation techniques.
  • Techniques for effectively representing the City in contacts with governmental agencies, community groups, and various business, professional, educational, regulatory, and legislative organizations.
  • Recent and on-going developments, current literature, and sources of information related to the operations of the assigned division.
  • Techniques for providing a high level of customer service by effectively dealing with the public, vendors, contractors, and City staff.

  Physical Demands and Working Conditions:

  • Work in a standard office setting and use office equipment, including computers.
  • Vision to read printed materials and a computer screen.
  • Hearing and speech to communicate in person and by phone.
  • Finger dexterity for data entry and using office equipment.
  • Occasionally bend, stoop, kneel, and reach; lift, push, and pull objects up to 40 pounds.
  • In fieldwork, navigate varying terrain and perform light-to-medium physical tasks.
  • Potential exposure to hazardous materials during fieldwork.
  • May require overtime, weekends, evenings, and holiday availability.
  • Serve as a Disaster Services Emergency Worker as needed.

  
  

  IMPORTANT INFORMATION
  
  The City of Chino is committed to offering reasonable accommodations to job applicants with disabilities. If you need an accommodation due to a disability, please contact the Human Resources/Risk Management Department at (909) 334-3274. Requests should be made three (3) business days in advance.

  Prospective employees selected for employment must successfully complete a medical examination and a background check, including professional reference checks. The background check, paid for by the City, also includes Live Scan fingerprinting through the Department of Justice.

  The provisions of this bulletin do not constitute an expressed or implied contract and any provisions contained in this bulletin may be modified or revoked without notice.

  
  

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