FIELD SERVICES DIR

About the role

Daily, this individual will be responsible for crew deployments for both scheduled capital projects and emergency repairs, ensuring that every installation—from regulatory sign adheres to MUTCD standards for retro reflectivity, mounting height, and lateral offset. Their primary focus is managing municipal liability by maintaining a defensible, high-quality signage network.

Essential duties

• Priorities and assigns field inspection and traffic survey work to supervisors and their staff based on urgency, complexity and staff availability
• Interprets and explains provisions of city codes and ordinances involving the public way to contractors and staff
• Ensure that inspections reports, citations and traffic surveys approved by supervisors meet quality standards and comply with city ordinances regarding the public way
• Manage supervisory staff who oversee the inspection of construction sites to ensure the public way is safe and clear of obstruction and directs the issuance of tickets for violations observed
• Develops and implements work methods and standards to improve the quality, effectiveness and timeliness of inspections and traffic surveys
• Directs and coordinates traffic surveys to determine the need for new or replacement traffic signs and for pedestrian or vehicular detours during construction projects
• Directs the development of training programs for staff
• Oversees and participates in performance appraisals of staff and initiates and administers corrective or disciplinary action as necessary
• Supervises the preparation and maintenance of unit records and correspondence and the preparation of administrative and budgetary reports
• Assists in developing budgets for personnel and equipment
• Serves as a liaison to city departments, public agencies and the public on public way enforcement issues

Related duties

• Attends City Council committee meetings to provide expert testimony on matters involving the public way and to recommend the approval or denial of traffic sign requests
• Inspect newly vacated or dedicated streets to ensure the proper installation of traffic control and parking restriction signs

Additional duties may be required for this position.

Minimum qualifications

• Five (5) years of experience in the inspection of public way construction and demolition projects, traffic flow surveys and street sign placement, of which three (3) years are in a supervisory role related to the responsibilities of the position
• OR graduation from an accredited college with an Associate's Degree, PLUS three (3) years of experience in the inspection of public way construction and demolition projects, traffic flow surveys and street placement, of which three (3) years are in a supervisory role related to the responsibilities of the position
• OR graduation from an accredited college or university with a Bachelor's, Master's or Doctorate degree, PLUS one (1) year of experience in the inspection of public way construction and demolition projects, traffic flow surveys and street placement, of which three (3) years are in a supervisory role related to the responsibilities of the position
• A valid State of Illinois driver's license is required
• Must have permanent use of an automobile that is properly insured including a clause specifically insuring the City of Chicago from accident liability

Selection requirements

This position requires an applicant to successfully complete an interview. The interviewed candidate(s) possessing the qualifications best suited to fulfill the responsibilities of the position, based on the interview, will be selected.

Pay

Starting Salary: $105,516.00

Schedule

Monday – Friday, 7:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Location: 3458 South Lawndale Avenue