Salary : $62,352.70 – $93,529.05 Annually
Location : Asheville, NC
Job Type: Full Time
Job Number: 2023-00999
Department: Parks & Recreation
Division: Business Services
Opening Date: 08/14/2023
Closing Date: 8/28/2023 5:00 PM Eastern
Summary
About Us
The City of Asheville is dedicated to providing quality service for the residents and visitors of our beautiful city, nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina. Asheville, NC is a thriving mountain city that has a culture enriched in diversity.
The City of Asheville values and respects a diverse community, workforce and ideas, and is committed to promoting an equitable, fair, and just employment environment. Our organization seeks to create and provide access and opportunities to employees, residents and visitors to fulfill their potential through inclusive engagement practices. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, genetic information or veteran status.
About Our Opportunity:
The City of Asheville Parks & Recreation Department is excited for you to join its team as a Parks & Recreation Project Manager. Under the supervision of the Assistant Director, the Project Manager is part of a team of design professionals that plans, designs, and manages the development, construction, and/or renovation of City parks, open spaces, trails, recreational facilities, grounds, and greenways and related projects for the Parks and Recreation department.
Hours are Monday through Friday; 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM. 37.5 hours per week with some nights and weekends as needed.
Salary range: $62,352.70 – $93,529.05 depending on qualifications.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
– Prepares for, analyzes, and addresses growing needs for parks, open spaces, trails, recreational facilities, grounds, and greenways City-wide.
– Performs park planning studies used for data analysis, policy recommendations, and project prioritization; confers with all appropriate parties to solicit input and feedback; investigates potential park projects.
– Develops and recommends concept, area, and facility plans based on strategic and master plans to assess compliance and outstanding projects, goals, and objectives.
– Manages bid and contract administration including preparation of Requests for Proposals (RFP’s) and bid packages, conducting pre-bid/pre-construction meetings, negotiations, and selection/rewarding contracts to contractors/professional services.
– Monitors contracted work to ensure compliance with contract specifications.
– Prepares and/or reviews plans, skilled engineering drawings, specifications, details, and other displays; and coordinates with architects, civil engineers, traffic engineers, general contractors, geotechnical engineers, planners, real estate development professionals, recreation professionals, community organizations, or others to aid the designing of parks, open spaces, trails, recreational facilities, grounds, and greenways.
– Manages projects through construction phases into project close out; including attending regular progress meetings, coordinating with contractors, and city staff, and inspecting quality of construction.
– Performs public relations duties regarding planning, design and construction of projects.
Education & Experience
Bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture or a related field required; supplemented by progressively responsible experience in landscape architecture, parks planning and design, or related field; or any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
Applicants with equivalent experience and/or education may be considered.
Specific License or Certifications required: Must possess and maintain a valid North Carolina Landscape Architecture license and North Carolina driver’s license.
Data Utilization: Requires the ability to coordinate, manage, and/or correlate data. Includes exercising judgment in determining time, place and/or sequence of operations, referencing data analyzes to determine necessity for revision of organizational components, and in the formulation of operational strategy.
Human Interaction: Requires the ability to act as a first-line supervisor, including instructing, assigning and reviewing work, maintaining standards, coordinating activities, and evaluating employee job performance.
Equipment, Machinery, Tools, and Materials Utilization: Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or control the actions of equipment, machinery, tools, and/or materials used in performing essential functions.
Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference, descriptive, advisory and/or design data and information.
Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; ability to calculate decimals and percentages; may include ability to perform mathematical operations with fractions; may include ability to compute discount, interest, and ratios; may include ability to calculate surface areas, volumes, weights, and measures.
Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of influence systems, such as motivation, incentive, and leadership, and to exercise independent judgment to apply facts and principles for developing approaches and techniques to resolve problems.
Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness and creativity in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental, or subjective criteria, as opposed to that which is clearly measurable or verifiable.
Employees are Benefited