TWDB – 26-17: Flood Safety Planning Grant Supervisor (Supervisor V)

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Solely candidates who apply with a State of Texas utility by way of the CAPPS on-line utility system might be thought-about for this place. First time candidates might want to create an account https://tinyurl.com/CAPPS-Login within the CAPPS on-line utility system at https://tinyurl.com/CAPPS-Jobs. Please go to our job alternatives web page at https://tinyurl.com/How-to-Apply-in-CAPPS for extra Information concerning the Texas Water Improvement Board and solutions to often requested questions. To view this place in higher element, go to the CAPPS on-line utility system.  Texas Water Improvement Board’s Mission      Main the state’s efforts in making certain a safe water future for Texas.   The Texas Water Improvement Board (TWDB) affords aggressive compensation and advantages package deal together with medical, dental, imaginative and prescient, 401(ok), versatile spending, and versatile work alternate options so you’ll be able to have a piece/life stability! For extra Information about these advantages and extra go to http://www.twdb.texas.gov/Jobs/advantages.asp. The Texas Water Improvement Board doesn’t discriminate on foundation of race, coloration, nationwide origin, intercourse, faith, sexual orientation, age, or incapacity in employment or provision of providers, applications, or actions.  *Licensed Engineering candidates exterior to TWDB might be eligible to obtain a $5,000 recruitment bonus if chosen.* **Should Meet company in-office requirement** ***Wage commensurate with expertise and {qualifications}***  GENERAL DESCRIPTIONThe ultimate FPPG Supervisor candidate could have information and expertise in hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, mapping, planning, and the design and development of flood threat discount tasks. They need to be extremely expert in making certain that grants are utilized appropriately to determine flood threat and to plan efficient flood threat discount research. The candidate should additionally make sure that work carried out by contractors meets program necessities and fulfills the aim of the funding. Moreover, they need to have expertise in growing and managing contracts and overseeing contractor efficiency.Performs superior (senior-level) managerial work administering the day by day operations and actions of the Texas Water Improvement Board’s (TWDB) Flood Safety Planning Grant (FPPG) Division within the Flood Planning (FP) Division of the Workplace of Planning (OoP). Work entails establishing objectives and aims; growing tips, procedures, insurance policies, guidelines, and laws; creating schedules, priorities, and requirements for reaching established objectives; and coordinating and evaluating the FPPG Division. Develops and evaluates funds requests and monitoring funds expenditures. Critiques, manages, and coordinates all Flood Infrastructure Fund (FIF) Flood Administration Analysis (FME) research for the company, with vital buyer interplay. The place coordinates, guides, tracks, critiques, and oversees administration of all FIF FME tasks for company assessment and Board approval. Plans, assigns, and supervises the work of others. Works beneath restricted supervision, with appreciable latitude for the usage of initiative and unbiased judgment. Experiences to the Assistant Deputy Government Administrator (ADEA) of the Workplace of Planning.ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS Manages the Flood Safety Planning Grant (FPPG) Division, together with assembling and managing a workforce for coordinating all FIF Class 1 (CAT 1) and Flood Administration Analysis (FME) grant functions.Gives efficient management and administration of the FPPG Division.Performs general administration and coordination of CAT 1 and FME utility critiques and monitoring, contract improvement, and contract administration.Ensures TWDB’s tasks database (TxWise) is saved up to date for all FIF CAT 1 and FME tasks.Creates and updates related paperwork and processes for profitable administration and closeout of CAT 1 and FME functions.Critiques functions for monetary help and advises candidates on TWDB necessities in line with the funding program.Stays knowledgeable of adjustments to pertinent legal guidelines, laws, tips, insurance policies, and directions and appropriately applies them to assigned tasks.Develops related engineering Information wanted for Board consideration of funding requests and makes last suggestions on the feasibility of proposed tasks/functions.Coordinates with varied federal and state companies concerning tasks and applications.Performs technical assessment and analysis of engineering-related paperwork; determines deficiencies, choices, and suggestions to make sure compliance with TWDB guidelines and laws.Screens venture schedules, budgets, bill prices, and/or launched prices to determine potential points or delays.Serves as venture supervisor, monitoring venture schedules, budgets, and necessities, and reviewing eligibility and approving fee requests.Could conduct on-site observations to observe the progress of TWDB-funded tasks for compliance with TWDB guidelines and specs.Assists homeowners with drawback decision and ensures work is accomplished in accordance with authorized contract paperwork.Manages varied facets of tasks, recommends programs of motion to cut back delays, and paperwork venture information on vital actions.Proactively generates and manages communications with FIF CAT 1 and FME venture candidates.Manages actions and offers route, coordination, technical steering, help, and supervision of company employees within the FPPG Division.Screens and stories division work actions.Authorizes division hiring, separations, disciplinary actions, and worker efficiency rewards.Assigns job duties and duties, conducts efficiency evaluations, clarifies roles and duties, and displays and measures efficiency in opposition to objectives.Evaluates division efficiency and recommends and leads enhancements.Develops schedules and monitoring supplies to make sure that necessities are met and deliverables meet deadlines.Directs, displays, and anticipates program actions; develops and implements crucial revisions to company guidelines, steering, and procedures as wanted.Gives help for legislative, company, public, media, and different Information requests.Participates in Supervisor-approved Profession Improvement Plan actions, together with establishing worker objectives and figuring out job-related coaching alternatives.Oversees improvement of part employees, together with setting part and division objectives and approving worker job-related coaching.Manages all venture actions throughout the FPPG Division, offering technical route and steering.Helps division administrative necessities associated to group, funds, and personnel.Ensures the supply of high quality customer support from the division to each inside and exterior stakeholders.Manages the efficiency of direct stories, together with well timed completion of efficiency value determinations and follow-through on disciplinary actions as wanted.Maintains confidential and delicate Information.Ensures particular person and workforce information (digital and laborious variations) are appropriately maintained and well timed disposed of in accordance with the company’s information retention procedures and schedule.Maintains required certifications and licenses and meets the persevering with training wants and necessities of the place to incorporate, attending necessary coaching programs.Could also be required to function a state or private automobile for enterprise functions.Performs different duties as assigned.    MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS Commencement from accredited four-year school or college with a bachelor’s diploma in Planning, Water Assets/Civil/Environmental Engineering, or associated discipline.Seven years of related skilled expertise in flood threat discount tasks, flood-related planning, mitigation, response, or restoration; water sources planning; and/or flood modeling and mapping; or different closely-related work.Three years of progressively accountable skilled work expertise managing tasks/applications and supervising employees.Licensed as a Skilled Engineer within the State of TexasOR licensed as a Skilled Engineer in one other state AND potential to acquire a Texas PE license inside six months of rent OR licensed as an Engineer in Coaching within the State of Texas. Related training will be substituted for expertise on a year-for-year foundation.PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS Graduate diploma from an accredited school or college in Planning, Civil/Environmental Engineering, or associated discipline.4 years of progressively accountable skilled related work expertise managing tasks/applications and supervising employees.Expertise growing and managing contracts.Data of hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, and mapping of flood threat. Expertise with hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, and mapping of flood threat. Expertise in planning, prioritization, design and development of flood threat discount tasks together with riverine flood management, native flood management and costal flood management tasks.Skilled overseeing the correct utilization of flood management planning grants.Expertise with laws associated to floodplain and flood administration, federal and state applications and allowing.Licensed Flood Plain Supervisor. KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES Data of native, state, and federal legal guidelines and laws related to the Flood Planning Division.Data of the ideas and practices of public administration.Data of flood threat discount tasks, hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, mapping, ideas and the ideas associated to flood planning and flood mitigation.Data of flood modeling and mapping processes and GIS mapping normally.Expertise in utilizing Microsoft Workplace applications resembling Phrase, Excel, and Entry.Expertise in use of web, electronic mail, phrase processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and database software program.Expertise in getting ready stories.Means to keep up the safety and integrity of important infrastructure inside Texas.Means to fulfill company in-office necessities.Means to determine work-related course of, knowledge, or oversight gaps and implement options to handle them.Means to grasp, write, and current advanced technical Information to a non-technical viewers.Means to shortly turn into familiar with flood-related federal, state, and native legal guidelines and companies, in addition to related flood applications, funding applications, insurance policies, and laws.Means to offer immediate, courteous, and correct help, and talk clearly and concisely with inside and exterior stakeholders, together with company employees, political entities, and the general public, each verbally and in writing.Means to work successfully in a workforce setting and cooperate with supervisors, co-workers, and others.Means to prioritize, handle a number of duties, and schedule work to keep up common progress on assignments and meet deadlines.Means to efficiently develop, deploy, and oversee contracts.Means to ascertain objectives and aims.Means to plot options to issues.Means to determine and mitigate program and company dangers.Means to stick to work schedules, comply with procedures concerning go away, and submit correct timesheets by prescribed deadlines.Means to make mature, goal choices and determine areas of potential issues.Means to carry out successfully and willingly when adjustments happen in scope and nature of the work or work setting.Means to carry out routine and non-routine work assignments precisely and on time with little or no supervision.Means to enhance work habits and output.Means to finish assigned work neatly, precisely, and on time with rare errors.Means to finish duties and tasks in a well timed method and persist till duties are accomplished.Means to interpret insurance policies, procedures, and laws.Means to handle a number of duties and keep progress on assignments.Means to face, sit, and transfer as wanted to carry out actions resembling retrieving/changing information in a big file system and lifting bins as much as 30 lbs.Means and willingness to journey as much as 10% of the time, primarily throughout the State of Texas.Means to function a automobile (state or private) for state enterprise and keep a driver’s license and driving file that complies with state and company necessities.Means to work shifts that will exceed 8 hours, together with early mornings, nights, and weekends.Means to coach others.Means to assign and/or supervise the work of others.