THE POSITION:

The City of Portland’s Bureau of Environmental Services (BES) collaborates with Portland community members and businesses to protect water quality, public health, and the environment through wastewater collection and treatment, sewer construction and maintenance, stormwater management, and stream and watershed restoration. This position reports to a large infrastructure bureau with over 600 employees and approximately $15.2 billion worth of assets. This role has substantial discretionary authority to make significant decisions with a high consequence of error, to develop and execute program policy, and to allocate program resources with minimal oversight.

The Technical Services Group is one of the bureau’s eight major groups. It has two major divisions that coordinates technology, mapping and information delivery, centralized data collection, and monitoring for the Bureau. The Information, Technology & Mapping Division includes technology services, data/applications, mapping and records support, and data strategy. The Information Delivery Division includes the:

• Water Pollution Control Lab
• data acquisition and management
•  coordinated site analysis
•  investigating and monitoring services
• field operations
• biological expertise

This position is responsible to direct and oversee approximately 60 employees.

This position reports to the Deputy Director and is a key member of the bureau leadership team; providing advice and guidance to the Bureau Director and senior management on technology and data initiatives with bureau-wide impact. This position plans, organizes and directs the work of the Technical Services Work Group which has significant Bureau and Citywide impact. It is responsible for providing a clear vision for the Technical Services group and overseeing the improvements to programs necessary to deliver the services to support BES’s mission and goals.