As a director of works, you make an important contribution to the quality and safety of public spaces within a municipal organization. You focus specifically on contracts and collaboration concerning sewerage, paving (roads and paths), and other grey infrastructure in outdoor areas. You are responsible for accountability and advice on the budget and quality of these public space components.
Together with a team of supervisors, you ensure that all work is carried out according to agreements, specifications, and contracts. The Maintenance and Service department works daily on the management of public spaces, including greenery, roads, play facilities, street furniture, forests, cemeteries, the warehouse, and the vehicle fleet. The department consists of approximately 56 colleagues divided into 3 teams.
What you do
- Representing the organization during the execution of management and maintenance work on sewerage, roads, paths, parking lots, and other grey elements in public spaces. For this, you maintain contacts with contractors and other parties, such as competent authorities and water boards.
- Drawing up and/or translating specifications and contractual agreements prepared by the Programming team, and conducting management meetings with contractors on topics such as provisional sums, quality, deployment, additional and less work, and resident complaints.
- Providing substantive input for issues related to the management and maintenance of sewerage and grey infrastructure.
- Coordinating supervision in the districts, ensuring that findings from district and specialist supervisors and reports from citizens are properly addressed and processed in the management of contractors.
- Working in on-call services where you are also present on location outside regular office hours in the event of urgent reports (e.g., sewer malfunctions, subsidence, or unsafe situations on the road) to manage the situation safely if necessary.
What they ask
- HBO (higher professional education) working and thinking level through education or experience
- Knowledge of public space management, with an emphasis on sewerage, roads, paving, and other grey elements
- Knowledge and/or experience with CROW methodology and RAW framework agreements
- Knowledge and/or experience with GIS systems and case management systems
- Insight into or affinity with chain management and the PDCA cycle (learning from implementation to policy and programming)
- Flexible availability, sometimes outside regular office hours
- Solution-oriented and communicatively skilled
- Proactive and can easily switch between independent work and teamwork
- Good at communicating with various stakeholders and moves easily between different parties: from contractors and other executing parties to colleagues within the Management & Maintenance chain and citizens.
- Can work well with different interests in a team but can also easily work independently.
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