Pay Range: $56.44/hr. - $74.78/hr. | $117,396 - $155,549
Job Posting Closing on: Friday, March 28, 2025 📅
Workdays & Hours: Monday – Friday 8 am – 5 pm; Some evening/weekend work required.
Benefits for this position include: 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, and Professional Development Opportunities. Find Out More!
The City of Fort Worth is one of the fastest-growing large cities in the U.S. Our employees serve the needs of nearly 1,000,000 residents, promoting our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability. 🌆
An Assistant Environmental Services Director job is available with the City of Fort Worth Environmental Services Department / Business Services Division. The Environmental Services Department works to protect public health, properties, and environmental and natural resources through effective management strategies, public education, and engagement with the community to create a clean, safe, and green city. It safeguards against pollution through litter prevention and reduction efforts and improved waste management. Teams are committed to environmental stewardship practices and behaviors through compliance, pollution prevention, sustainability, recycling, and reuse.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Public Administration, Business Administration or a related field,
- Six (6) years of management experience relating to environmental services or a related field
- Two (2) years of administrative and supervisory experience.
- Valid Texas Driver’s License.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Expert in municipal budget preparation and administration principles and practices to prepare and present reports, budgets, and communications.
- Communicate clearly and effectively, orally, visually, and in writing.
- Identify and respond to sensitive community and organizational issues, concerns, and needs.
The Assistant Environmental Services Director's job responsibilities include:
- Directs the department's activities, including planning, coordinating, administering, and evaluating programs, projects, processes, procedures, systems, standards, and/or service offerings; ensures compliance with federal, state, and local laws, regulations, codes, and/or standards.
- Supervises staff, including prioritizing and assigning work, conducting performance evaluations, and ensuring staff are trained. Leads the departmental human resource section, ensuring employees follow policies and procedures, maintaining a healthy and safe working environment, and making hiring, termination, and disciplinary decisions or recommendations.
- Participates in developing and administrating the department’s annual budget; forecasts funds needed for staffing, equipment, materials, and supplies; recommends projects, monitors, and approves expenditures and revenues; and implements budgetary adjustments, as needed.
- Represents the Environmental Services Department to other departments, elected officials, and outside agencies; coordinates assigned activities with other departments, agencies, and organizations; and negotiates and resolves sensitive and controversial issues.
- Enforces applicable City codes and ordinances; develops or modifies ordinances, as needed; oversees assigned special projects involving litigation; serves as liaison with legal staff; and appears in court, mediations, and hearings, as needed.
- Participates in a variety of boards, commissions, and committees; and prepares and presents staff reports and other necessary correspondence.
Working Conditions
Depending on the assignment, positions in this class typically require touching, talking, hearing, seeing, grasping, standing, walking, and repetitive motions.
Physical Demand
Sedentary Work – Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, a negligible amount of force frequently, and/or or constantly having to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.
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Conditions of Employment
The City of Fort Worth is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is the policy and practice of the City to recruit, hire, train and promote a diverse workforce without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, or another non-merit factor.
The City of Fort Worth is committed to full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.
Candidates who do not meet the Education requirement, may be considered if they have more relevant work experience than the position requires. Those selected for employment will be required to pass Pre-Employment checks depending on the position requirements. Those could include, but are not limited to: criminal background check, drug screen, education verification, etc. criminal convictions will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Employees are paid by direct deposit only.
