About Our Job

The Department of Transportation and Infrastructure (DOTI), through its employees, enhances the quality of life in Denver by efficiently delivering effective, high quality, safe and equitable public infrastructure, and services. For more information, please visit the DOTI website.

DOTI’s Commitment to Equity:

• DOTI is committed to providing attention and resources to the areas, assets and people of the city with the greatest need through equitable contracting, investments, and workforce development
• DOTI’s culture revolves around four key principles: (1) Invest in Our People, (2) Operate with Discipline, (3) Use Data to Drive Decisions, and (4) Deliver Results.

Street Maintenance is responsible for managing the City’s 2,150 centerline miles and 5,135 alleys to ensure safety and mobility for residents and visitors. Street Maintenance is responsible for multiple maintenance functions: Milling and overlay, pothole patching, street sweeping, and snow removal operations. The Division also manages the City’s asphalt plant, which produces asphalt for resurfacing and maintaining city streets and alleys.

The Street Maintenance Division is seeking an engineering professional in to serve as an Engineering Manager and lead the Street Maintenance Engineering section. The Engineering section manages and administers the Capitol Maintenance budget for the division, advances projects through the construction implementation process, coordinates emergency/snow operations, and implements asset management methodologies and systems to improve operational efficiencies.

The Engineering Manager provides staff leadership, cross-organizational collaboration, business planning, technical guidance, budgeting, and performance reporting, among many other duties. The Manager develops staff and ensures assigned projects and programs are completely within scope of expectation and DOTI goals. Manager reports progress and concerns to Division Director. The Engineering Manager works closely with division counterparts to plan yearly workloads, resolve operational inefficiencies. Lastly, the Engineering Manger is the primary point of contact for street maintenance internal and external construction coordination and provides in depth engineering expertise, to operational functions of the division.  In this role you make a direct impact by improving the city through implementing projects and programs that benefit the traveling public.

Job duties and responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Manages a professional work group(s) or a program in such areas as plans review, project management, planning and design.
• Develops goals, documents performance, provides performance feedback and formally evaluates the work of the employee; provides reward and recognition for proper and efficient performance. Assists staff to achieve performance standards and identifies opportunities for continual improvement to performance standards.
• Communicates annual work plans to all stakeholders and ensures employees are focused on the work plan and achieving performance standards.
• Monitors and directs daily operations to ensure policies and procedures are correctly interpreted and followed. Ensures goals and objectives are met, services are being provided efficiently and effectively, and takes corrective action when needed. Monitors progress and ensures conformance to schedules, specifications, regulatory requirements. Provides on-time deliverables.
• Ensures staff and financial resources are utilized appropriately and shifts resources based on business needs within budget restraints.
• Resolves operational and management issues, makes decisions that are inclusive of multiple perspectives and solves underlying problems.
• Represents the work area(s)/division in meetings with elected and/or appointed officials and other city entities. Serves as a city representative on various committees. Fosters collaborative relationships that benefit the organization.
• Creates and administers work group procedures and recommends and implements process improvements and policies for work group(s). Approves or recommends for approval requested variances.
• Develops goals, documents performance, provides performance feedback and formally evaluates the work of the employee; provides reward and recognition for proper and efficient performance. Assists staff to achieve performance standards and identifies opportunities for continual improvement to performance standards.
• Resolves escalated employee and citizen complaints.
• Selects, trains, develops, and evaluates subordinate staff. Makes decisions on hiring, terminations, promotions, and disciplinary actions as required.
• Participates in the development of budget recommendations for operating and capital expenditures.
• Implement Asset management system to optimize accountability in division and provide details to advocate for resources
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

About You

Our ideal candidate will have:

• Demonstrated track record of moving an organization forward to make impact and drive operational efficiencies
• Confidence and comfortability with implementing new ideas to improve depart functions and processes
• Ability to be successful in a dynamic, fast-paced environment with constantly shifting priorities
• At least three years of supervision of professional staff and a passion for developing premier teams that are results driven
• Strong analytical skills to oversee the asset management and construction teams to interpret and draw conclusions from a variety of data sources

We recognize your time is valuable, so please do not apply unless you meet the following required minimum qualifications:

• Education requirement: Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Architecture.
• Experience Requirement: Three (3) years of experience supervising licensed engineers or architects.
• Education/Experience Equivalency: No substitution of experience for education is permitted.
• Additional appropriate education may be substituted for experience requirements.
• License/Certifications: Requires a valid Driver's License at the time of application.
• Requires registration as a Professional Engineer (PE) by the Colorado State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers at the time of application. Or requires registration as an Architect by the Colorado State Board of Registration at the time of application.
• Registration in another state will be accepted in lieu of this requirement, provided that the applicant has Colorado registration at completion of probation.Licenses and certifications must be kept current as a condition of employment.