Position Description

Title Deputy General Manager – Fort Bend Operations
Section Executive Leadership
Location 301 Jackson Street, Suite 639
Richmond, TX 77469
Compensation Salary begins at $128,700 and is dependent on experience and qualifications.
Job Summary The Deputy General Manager serves as the Chief Operating Officer of the Fort Bend Subsidence District, providing the leadership, management, and vision necessary to ensure that the District has the proper systems in place to complete the District mission effectively. Works closely with the General Manager and Board of Directors to provide reasonable groundwater regulation to prevent further subsidence within Fort Bend County. This position will serve as the primary point of contact for the District’s regulatory plan and will represent FBSD at regulatory and water-related meetings, conferences, and workshops. The Deputy General Manager will manage and develop strategies to streamline operations internally with FBSD staff and externally with consultants and local entities.
Essential Functions • Provide day-to-day leadership and management supporting the mission and core values of the District. Bottom line: Build a resilient and customer-focused District.
• Supports the Board of Directors by providing timely, accurate, and up-to-date information on pending actions and implementing Board directives.
• Provide support to the General Manager through effective collaboration in the development of strategic plans, water management strategies, and regulatory policies to provide for the water needs of the District while preventing subsidence.
• Serves as the primary point of contact for the District’s regulatory plan and rules.
• Completes all permit recommendations for Board consideration and oversees the compilation of permit applications for public hearings.
• Responsible for the implementation of short and long-range plans to achieve the District’s goals.
• Oversees and contributes to the compilation, publication, and archival of the District’s Annual Groundwater Report.
• Coordinates with technical consultant teams on projects of high visibility and high impact.
• Motivate and lead a customer-focused team, identify, and propose changes to workflow and processes to improve efficiency, and provide mentoring to employees.
• Effectively communicate the needs, accomplishments, and goals of the District with the public, regional water authorities, local water providers, and local/regional/state/federal public officials.
• Maintain professional technical knowledge of subsidence and water planning by attending educational workshops and presenting at local, county, and state-wide events.
• Foster a success-oriented, accountable environment within the District.
Competencies
  • Leadership
  • Strategic thinking
  • Public policy perspective
  • Communication with a wide range of audiences on a technical level
  • Decision making
  • Financial management
Required Education and Experience • Master’s degree in engineering, geology, hydrology, and/or business-related fields or equivalent experience.
• Eight years of experience in strategic planning in natural resources or related fields.
• Project management experience leading complex projects that include client relations.
• Five years of experience supervising various levels of employees.
Preferred Education and Experience • Three years of work experience in or with a city, county, or state government entity.
• Two years of regulatory experience.
• Five years of management experience in a water-related field or industry.
• Three years of experience planning and executing complex projects.
Additional Eligibility Qualifications • Financial planning and analysis experience.
• Excellent people skills, with an ability to support a diverse team.
• Possess personal qualities of integrity, credibility, and commitment to the District’s ission.
Work Environment This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, and fax machines. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
Physical Demands The physical demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee may need to lift items of awkward size weighing up to 50 lbs in and out of District Vehicles. The employee will travel primarily by personally operated vehicle and may occasionally fly to locations within Texas and nationwide. Must be capable of reading, writing, and understanding material that is highly technical in nature.
Work Schedule This is a full-time, salaried position. Typically, a forty-hour workweek but can involve late hours of work as well as duty on an irregular timetable. Office hours are 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. This position is eligible for an alternative work schedule with duty stations in Richmond, TX, and Friendswood, TX.
Travel Travel is primarily local during the business day, although some out-of-the-area and overnight travel may be required. This position is officed at the Fort Bend Subsidence District office in Richmond, TX; however, travel to the Harris-Galveston Subsidence District office in Friendswood, TX, will be required as needed.
AAP/EEO Statement The Harris-Galveston Subsidence District is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind: The Harris-Galveston Subsidence District (HGSD) is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at HGSD are based on District needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. HGSD will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.
Other Duties Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.