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Job Description
Pay Range: $128,559 - $145,328 annual compensation
Job Posting Closing on: Thursday, November 21, 2024
** Sign-On Incentive: $10,000 **
Benefits for this position include: 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, Professional Development Opportunities, and much 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 Engineering Manager - SCADA and LIMS job is available with the City of Fort Worth Water Strategic Operations’ SCADA and LIMS Section. This section is responsible for strategic frameworks related to Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition and Laboratory Information Management System, and overarching strategic analytics of the Water department’s facilities. This position will also help in promoting the Utility’s mission, vision and values through data acquisition, data processing, and data publishing for the Water Department. This section is responsible for supervising a team of four IT Programmer Analysts/Sr. Business Process Analysts.
This Position qualifies for the following incentives which is separate from the base pay:
- Sign-On Incentive of $10,000 ***50% paid after the completion of first pay period, 50% paid after the completion of 6 months of employment. ***
- Relocation Reimbursement would be provided selected candidates meets relocation distance requirements
As the Engineering Manager - SCADA and LIMS, you will need to have a good working knowledge of principles and practices of planning, maintenance, troubleshooting, implementation of projects that require integration to existing SCADA and LIMS systems, and contract administration of related projects for assigned area. The incumbent should be able to trouble-shoot complex SCADA and LIMS systems, conduct extensive research, and provide guidance to internal and external stakeholder groups. This position will report to the Fort Worth Water Department’s Strategic Operations Assistant Director.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or a related field.
- At least five (5) years of SCADA managerial experience including two years of administrative supervisory responsibility.
- Possession of registration as a Professional Engineer in the State of Texas. If licensed in another state, continued employment will be contingent upon obtaining registration as a Professional Engineer within the State of Texas within six months of employment.
- Valid Driver's license.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Ten (10) years of experience in programming, operation and maintenance of plant electronic and computerized process control or SCADA & LIMS systems in the water and wastewater treatment plant and laboratory.
- Must have experience working with Control Systems/SCADA/LIMS integration projects.
- Municipal water/wastewater experience is a plus.
The Engineering Manager - SCADA job responsibilities include:
- Supervises staff, which includes prioritizing and assigning work; conducting performance evaluations; ensuring staff is trained; ensuring employees follow policies and procedures; maintaining a healthy and safe working environment; and, making hiring, termination, and disciplinary decisions or recommendations.
- Monitors and evaluates the quality, responsiveness, efficiency and effectiveness of SCADA and LIMS projects, data requests fulfillment, stakeholders’ requests fulfillment, systems change requests and works with employees on the continuous improvement of the two systems.
- Serve on CIP committee and provide analysis and justification for recommended projects.
- Participate in CIP update meeting, design meeting, pre-construction meeting, and construction meetings; monitor projects’ progress during design phase and construction phase, schedule and reviews SCADA/PLC tags mapping, communications settings, SCADA screens and database creations; and assure successful new sites integration to existing SCADA architecture.
- Utilize the Utility’s CMMS as part of routine activities. Recommend reports, changes, and/or other tools that may be beneficial to the success of the Program.
- Provide technical support to capital delivery project managers assigned to facility capital improvement projects.
- Perform conceptual engineering, process diagrams and procurement (spec writing) assistance as needed to support Plant Operations engineering team.
- Manages the administration (new contract, contract renewal, and vendor’s invoices) of engineering agreements and vendors’ contracts. Lead contract negotiation, reviews, and recommends approval of agreements and vendor’s contracts prior to execution.
- Provides professional engineering expertise in the design and construction of SCADA projects. Reviews, evaluates and approves a variety of engineering and construction documents, including drawings, plans, designs, contract documents, technical specification, cost estimates, environmental documents and reports.
- Identifies and plans required projects for SCADA and LIMS system expansion and upgrades; develops and submits scope of work for proposed projects; and lead the procurement process of SCADA projects within City, County, State and Federal guidelines.
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. -
ABOUT THE COMPANY
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City of Fort Worth
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The City of Cowboys & Culture is known for its Texas hospitality. The stunning and sprawling City of
Fort Worth is one of the fastest-growing cities in the U.S. And it’s no wonder — With great neighborhoods, scenic terrain and a rich history of arts and culture, paired with world-class opportunities for business and education, it’s not only fun to visit Fort Worth, it’s even more rewarding to call it home.Fort Worth truly offers all the benefits and amenities of a bustling metropolitan city, while keeping the small- town charm that keeps it unpretentious and charismatic in all the right ways. Designated as one of America’s “Most Livable Communities” by the Partners for Livable Communities, the city truly offers a melting pot of culture, commerce, community and yes, cowboys.
There are over a dozen remarkable districts full of treasured history among modern luxuries and unique places to have fun, making it the No. 1 tourist destination in Texas and welcoming more than 9.4 million visitors annually.
Being one of the fastest-growing among large cities in the country, Fort Worth has received multiple accolades, including number one downtown (Livability), and the second-best City in the nation for job seekers (Forbes). Our employees serve the needs of over 900,000 residents representing culturally diverse communities.
Exciting Growth & Future Development
One of the most fascinating aspects of the City of Fort Worth is its almost unprecedented growth over the past several years. Both in terms of population and industry, and as the 12th largest city in the United States, Fort Worth is truly booming — which presents both challenges and opportunities to truly develop this city in the right way. Every 30 minutes a new person moves to Fort Worth, so we’re looking for candidates who can embrace an evergrowing and changing environment and improve on it with solutions that work for the entire community of Fort Worth.
Mission
We are working together to build a strong community that others can look to as a pillar of unity and excellence. Through grassroots efforts within the community, and large scale construction and transportation plans that continue to add the infra- structure a growing city like Fort Worth needs, we’ll provide the public services our community requires to continually cultivate the unique city we call home.
Vision
Fort Worth’s vision is to be the most livable and best managed city in the country. We’ll do this by taking care of our citizens, implementing the highest quality standards in our schools, continually improving the neighborhoods we thrive in and the facets of the city that make our town so unique.
Benefits That Are Well Worth It
The City of Fort Worth continues to be dedicated to its employees’ well-being by providing competitive health benefits, a well-rounded wellness program and a Zero Accident Philosophy® workplace. All regular full-time employees and those employees who work 30–39 hours per week are eligible for all City of Fort Worth Benefits. Part-time employees who work 20–29 hours per week are eligible for dental, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, flexible spending accounts, 457 Deferred Compensation plan and other voluntary benefits.
Medical Program
The City offers two plan options through Meritain Health, an Aetna company.
The Health Center Plan – Offers employees and their family’s
primary health care services that are 100% completely free and unlimited. Employees can visit any one of the three City of Fort Worth Employee Health Centers and receive guaranteed same or next day appointments for sick visits. Also, services are available at any one of the five satellite locations that serves employees across the city.
The Consumer Choice Plan – Is offered to employees at no cost or low monthly premiums to cover eligible dependents and provides the financial benefits of a Health Savings Account (HSA).
• Preventative services are covered at 100% on both plans.
• Prescription Drug coverage including mail order pharmacy are also included.Vacation
Eligible for 3 weeks of vacation: After successful completion of probationary period (usually
6 months), employees may take time off for rest, relaxation, vacation, illness, religious observances, and personal business.Holidays
Available on the first day of employment, the city provides employees with paid holidays, including two personal holidays.
Wellness Program
The city’s Healthy Challenge Wellness Program rewards all full-time, benefit-eligible employees on the city’s health insurance. The Healthy Challenge Program utilizes a points system. Participants may earn points throughout the year (Jan. 1-Dec. 15) for completing specific program activities and participants can redeem points at the end of the year for a cash reward. By participating, individuals can earn $150, $200 or $250 by accumulating program points.
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