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+ Application Opening: Thursday, October 23, 2025

+ Application Filing Deadline: Thursday, November 13, 2025

+ Annual Salary: 267,488 - 288,054 (https://sfdhr.org/classification-compensation-database)

+ Recruitment ID:  PEX-5506-160403 / RTF0160402-01064420

APPOINTMENT TYPE: Permanent Exempt: This position is excluded by the Charter from the competitive Civil Service examination process and shall serve at the discretion of the Appointing Officer.

The initial duration of the appointment shall not exceed 36 months.

WHO ARE WE?

San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) (https://youtu.be/inc4CF4VKFE)

Headquartered in San Francisco, we have 2,300 employees operating across eight counties serving more than 2.7 million customers in the San Francisco Bay Area – 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.

Our Mission: To provide our customers with high quality, efficient, and reliable water, power, and wastewater services in a manner that values environmental and community interests and sustains the resources entrusted to our care.

Our Vision: We are an innovative utility leader, recognized for excellent results in service, safety, stewardship, and inclusiveness.

We are an award-winning and industry-leading utilities organization committed to our customers, community interests, and the environment. To learn more about our organization, please visit our website at https://www.sfpuc.org/.

We are proud of our infrastructure and programs, but most importantly, we value our highly qualified and dedicated workforce which ensures that this vision becomes a reality.

To learn more about working at the SFPUC, visit our career site at https://www.sfpuc.org/about-us/careers-sfpuc

The Project Manager III (PM III) is responsible for the implementation of Southeast Water Pollution Control Plant (SEP) Nutrient Reduction Project (Project) for the Wastewater Enterprise of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC). SEP is the centerpiece of SFPUC’s wastewater treatment operations. Built in 1952, SEP is San Francisco’s largest wastewater facility with a treatment capacity rated for 85.4 million gallons a day (MGD) of designed average dry weather flow and 250 MGD of designed peak wet weather flow.  The SEP handles about 80% of the wastewater and stormwater from the eastern two-thirds of City and County of San Francisco.

In July 2024, the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB) adopted Nutrient Watershed Permit (NWP) that requires reducing amount of total inorganic nitrogen in the effluent discharged from SEP.  The project will consist of major upgrades or replacement of existing high-purity oxygen activated sludge system to produce densified activated sludge to reduce nutrient loads in the effluent. In February 2025, SFPUC made determination that SEP Nutrient Reduction Project be delivered through Progressive Design-Build method. SEP Nutrient Reduction Project is budgeted at $1.47 billion dollars.

Essential Functions:

The nutrient reduction project is extremely complex and will require substantial planning, analysis, and communication.  Technical steps involved with the project include:

+ Determining the scope and breadth of the capital projects in the Program.

+ Conducting system analysis, developing, and evaluating technical alternative solutions to comply with NWP requirements.

+ Siting and acquiring property or easements for interim and permanent facilities.

+ Procurement of the Owner Advisor to support planning, design, environmental and construction management.

+ Hydraulic, seismic, and system modeling.

+ Overseeing the programmatic and project specific environmental review process.

+ Detailed design and construction of the preferred project alternative.

+ Development of life-cycle costs and incorporating all systems into the Wastewater Asset Management Program.

+ Coordinating with residents, neighborhood associations, special interest groups, and other stakeholders.

These technical steps require system analysis and technical solutions involving the input and consensus of wastewater engineering, sewer/stormwater hydraulics, low impact design, maintenance, operations, and design engineering staff (civil, mechanical, electrical, structural, process, controls, cathodic protection, and safety engineering disciplines), and other outside experts in related fields.  Detailed design and construction of the projects will involve civil, mechanical, electrical, structural, process, and instrumentation control engineering.  In addition, environmental assessment and mitigation measures will need to be performed and addressed.

Class 5506 Project Manager III performs other related duties as required.

Minimum Qualifications:

+ Bachelor's Degree in architecture, engineering or planning plus four years of responsible architectural, engineering or construction management experience,

OR

+ A Bachelor's Degree in another field plus six years of responsible experience in a field directly related to the project,

OR

+ Eight years of architectural, engineering, or construction management experience in a field directly related to the project,

OR

+ California registration as professional engineer or architect.

AND

Four additional years of project coordination experience for major architectural, engineering or construction projects.

One year of full-time employment is equivalent to 2000 hours (2000 hours of qualifying work experience is based on a 40-hour work week).  Any overtime hours that you work above forty (40) hours per week are not included in the calculation to determine full-time employment.

Applicants must meet the minimum qualification requirement by the final filing date unless otherwise noted.

Desirable Qualifications: The stated desirable qualifications may be considered at the end of the selection process when candidates are referred for hiring.

At least 10 years of professional experience in engineering, permitting, infrastructure construction, project management, construction management and other technical fields that involve major wastewater infrastructure facilities.

+ Bachelors or Master’s degree in Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering

+ California Professional Engineer (PE) license

+ Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute and/or DBIA certification from Design-Build Institute of America is desired

Verification of Education and Experience:

Applicants may be required to submit verification of qualifying education and experience at any point during the recruitment and selection process. Education verification information on verifying foreign education credits or degree equivalency, can be found at How to Verify Education Requirements | Department of Human Resources (sfdhr.org) (https://sfdhr.org/node/765) .

Note: Falsifying one’s education, training, or work experience or attempted deception on the application may result in disqualification for this and future job opportunities with the City and County of San Francisco.

All work experience, education, training, and other information substantiating how you meet the minimum qualifications must be included on your application by the filing deadline. Information submitted after the filing deadline will not be considered in determining whether you meet the minimum qualifications. Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of a completed City and County of San Francisco application. Applications completed improperly may be cause for ineligibility, disqualification or may lead to lower scores.

Additional Information Regarding Employment with the City and County of San Francisco:

+ Information About The Hiring Process (https://sfdhr.org/information-about-hiring-process)

+ Conviction History

+ Employee Benefits Overview  (https://sfdhr.org/benefits-overview)

+ Equal Employment Opportunity (https://sfdhr.org/equal-employment-opportunity)

+ Disaster Service Worker (https://sfdhr.org/disaster-service-workers)

+ ADA Accommodation

+ Veterans Preference (https://sfdhr.org/recruitment-details#veteranspreference)

+ Right to Work

+ Copies of Application Documents (https://sfdhr.org/recruitment-details#copies)

+ Diversity Statement

HOW TO APPLY

Applications for City and County of San Francisco jobs are only accepted through an online process. Visit https://careers.smartrecruiters.com/CityAndCountyOfSanFrancisco1/ and begin the application process.

+ Select the “Apply Now” button and follow instructions on the screen

Applicants may be contacted by email about this recruitment and, therefore, it is their responsibility to ensure that their registered email address is accurate and updated. Also, applicants must ensure that email from CCSF is not blocked on their computer by a spam filter. To prevent blocking, applicants should set up their email to accept CCSF mail from the following addresses (@sfgov.org, @sfdpw.org, @sfport.com, @flysfo.com, @sfwater.org, @sfdph.org, @asianart.org, @sfmta.com, @sfpl.org, @dcyf.org, @first5sf.org, @famsf.org, @ccsf.edu, @smartalerts.info, and @smartrecruiters.com).

Applicants will receive a confirmation email from [email protected] ([email protected])   that their online application has been received in response to every announcement for which they file. Applicants should retain this confirmation email for their records. Failure to receive this email means that the online application was not submitted or received.

Job Analyst Information: If you have any questions regarding this recruitment or application process, please contact the job analyst, Sari Mix at [email protected].

The City and County of San Francisco encourages women, minorities and persons with disabilities to apply. Applicants will be considered regardless of their sex, race, age, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition (associated with cancer, a history of cancer, or genetic characteristics), HIV/AIDS status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, military and veteran status, or other protected category under the law.