SANITATION DISTRICT MANAGER

**THIS POSITION IS OPEN TO CURRENT CITY OF MILWAUKEE EMPLOYEES ONLY. **

The Sanitation District Manager directs the day‑to‑day operations of one of the three geographic areas of the City of Milwaukee in order to maintain efficient collection of refuse and recycling and to ensure efficient snow and ice control operations.

Supervision

• Plan, organize, coordinate, and monitor operations to ensure current and seasonal project workload demands are met and to maintain consistent routes and services.
• Assign duties, check or inspect completed work, professionally train, coach, and develop, and recommend disciplinary action for first line supervisors.
• Monitor personnel management and production goals.
• Coordinate on-going training at work sites to ensure safe, knowledgeable, and efficient job performance of staff. Promote an educated and well-informed work force.
• Ensure staff is knowledgeable and well equipped to carry out the duties of their positions.

Administrative and Customer Service

• Investigate and resolve complex resident and aldermanic service requests in accordance with accepted policies and ordinances and with sensitivity to individual circumstances.
• Ensure field crews deliver quality service, maintain a consistent level of productivity, adhere to standard operating procedures and policies, and maintain good resident relations.
• Represent the department at aldermanic events such as town hall meetings and neighborhood walks to answer questions and to serve as a liaison to the department. 
• Perform administrative functions such as preparing reports, authoring correspondence letters, memos, and email messages, completing personnel related documents, providing statistical data and reports, and obtaining and responding to requests.
• Utilize various city and department websites, computer applications, and technologies for monitoring activities and requests.

Snow and Ice Control

• As part of the City of Milwaukee’s Snow and Ice Control response team, assist in operation and event planning and preparations. Maintain yard supplies, equipment, and personnel to meet the demands of operations throughout the winter season.
• Manage snow and ice control event operations in assigned area.
• Respond to and manage emergency events such as flooding and storm debris clean up.

We welcome qualified individuals with disabilities who are interested in employment and will make reasonable accommodations during the hiring process in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, as amended by the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA) of 2008.

• Please be advised that new employees are required to have received either both doses of the Moderna or Pfizer or one dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine prior to their employment start date or have an approved religious or medical accommodation prior to their employment start date. You can find further information relative to the City’s Covid-19 Vaccination Policy here. 
• Consistent with Wis. Stat. Sec. 66.0502 (4)(b) and Rule VIII, Section 9 of the Rules of the Board of City Service Commissioners, this position has been designated as “emergency personnel,” and the successful candidate will have six months within which to establish residence within 15 miles of the jurisdictional boundaries of the City of Milwaukee.
• The Sanitation District Manager must be willing and able to work variable and extended hours to meet the City’s needs during weather-related events and other emergencies.
• The incumbent must be able to travel throughout all parts of the City of Milwaukee to meet the needs of the department.

1. Regular status as a City of Milwaukee employee, having successfully completed a probationary period for a civil service position, or status as a City of Milwaukee employee in a fixed term position.
2. Five years of supervisory experience in operations, production, construction, or a related field.
3. Valid driver’s license at time of appointment and throughout employment.   

Equivalent combinations of education and experience may be considered.

NOTICE: Please do not attach your academic transcripts to your employment application. The hiring department will verify candidates’ education as part of the background screening process prior to extending any job offers.

• Experience in municipal public works or private solid waste and recycling.
• Bachelor’s degree in public administration, management, environmental studies, occupational health and safety, or a related field from an accredited college or university.

Technical

• Knowledge of municipal public works operations.
• Knowledge of Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations and workplace safety.
• Ability to read and interpret job-related documents, including maps.
• Ability to utilize computer applications such as word processing, spreadsheet, database, and the Internet.
• Ability to plan, direct, and organize resources efficiently to achieve desired outcomes.

Communication, Interpersonal, and Customer Service

• Ability to provide excellent customer service to the public, including resolving escalated complaints in a professional, sensitive, and tactful manner.
• Ability to resolve conflict in a diplomatic manner.
• Ability to communicate with a variety of individuals, including policymakers, the media, residents, colleagues, staff, and the public.
• Written communication skills, including the ability to produce clear memos, letters, and email messages.
• Verbal communication skills to effectively respond to questions and concerns.

Supervisory and Judgment

• Ability to train, develop, coach, and counsel staff.
• Ability to foster an environment of inclusion wherein all employees are treated respectfully, are valued for their strengths, and feel that they can safely express themselves.
• Ability to supervise a large, diverse work force of specialized and laboring staff.
• Ability to solve complex operational problems using sound judgment and reasoning.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, sometimes under pressure.
• Ability to maintain situational awareness and remain calm in stressful situations.
• Ability to build effective work teams and to advocate for and motivate staff to accomplish daily tasks.
• Ability to consistently demonstrate professional conduct and maintain confidentiality.
• Honesty, integrity, and responsible stewardship of City of Milwaukee resources.

The current salary range (Pay Range 1DX) is $55,962-$78,342, and the resident incentive salary range for City of Milwaukee residents is $57,641-$80,692. Appointment will be made in accordance with the City of Milwaukee salary ordinance.

Sanitation District Managers, if certified by the Commissioner of Public Works as being, when appropriate, regularly involved in snow and ice control operations which result in an excessive amount of overtime work, will receive 4.8% additional biweekly salary as compensation for such overtime work.

THE SELECTION PROCESS will be job related and will consist of one or more of the following: an evaluation of related education, experience and accomplishments, written tests, interview, or other assessment methods. The Department of Employee Relations reserves the right to call only the most qualified candidates to oral, performance tests or personal interviews. Information from the selection process will be used to make a hiring decision. Selected candidates will be transferred and/or promoted to the position.

INITIAL FILING DATE – The selection process will be held as soon as practical after the deadline listed above Receipt of applications may be discontinued at any time after this date without prior notice. However, recruitment may continue until the needs of the City have been met. The applicant is responsible for attending all phases of the selection process at the time and place designated by the hiring authority.

NOTE: Transfer/Promotional Opportunities and Promotional Examinations are not open to Milwaukee Public Schools employees or to the public. Only current City of Milwaukee employees and civilian personnel in MFD and MPD hired through a City Service Commission process who have successfully passed a probationary period for a Civil Service position or who have status as a City of Milwaukee employee in a fixed term position will be considered. Individuals with exempt, provisional, temporary, or emergency appointments are not eligible for transfer.

• Applications and further information can be accessed by visiting www.jobaps.com/MIL.
• Applications and transcripts should be submitted no later than the deadline listed above.
• If you would like assistance completing an application, please contact the Department of Employee Relations at (414) 286-3751 or staffinginfo@milwaukee.gov.
• The Department of Employee Relations is located in City Hall, 200 E Wells St, Room 706, and Milwaukee, WI 53202.

EEO Code= 103    

“The City of Milwaukee values and encourages diversity and is an equal opportunity employer.”