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Job Description
Pay Range: $122,187 - $158,843 annual compensation
Job Posting Closing on: Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Workdays & Hours: Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm; Some evening/weekend work required.
Benefits for this position include: 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, Professional Development Opportunities, and much more.
The City of Fort Worth is one of the fastest growing large cities in the U.S. Our employees serve the needs of nearly 1,000,000 residents, promoting our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability.
The FWLab is currently seeking a Sr. Capital Projects Officer to play a pivotal role in ensuring the successful management of our capital infrastructure projects. The FWLab is an initiative commissioned by City Manager David Cooke in February 2023 in support of Fort Worth's organizational values and to make government better. The work undertaken by the FWLab advances the City's Vision to " be the most livable and best managed city in the country " through building organizational capacity to explore, analyze and learn from data that is discoverable via existing and new municipal system and components.
The Sr Capital Projects Officer will oversee and coordinate management of all capital projects within the City of Fort Worth, ensuring alignment with long-term city goals and sustainability objectives. This role is essential for safeguarding taxpayer resources, ensuring projects are delivered on-time, within scope, and on budget. The Senior Capital Projects Officer will proactively track and manage project performance, collaborate with departments, and play a key role in financial management, including overseeing budgets, cash flow, and lifecycle costs. You will work closely with various city departments, external stakeholders, and agencies to ensure the City's capital projects contribute to a resilient, efficient, and cost-effective infrastructure system.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in project / program management, engineering, landscape architecture, planning, public administration, business administration, or a related field and
- Five (5) years of increasingly responsible administrative experience preferably within a local government environment
Preferred Qualifications:
- A Master’s degree is preferred.
- 7+ years of progressively responsible experience in capital project management or infrastructure development, with at least 5 years in a leadership or supervisory role.
- PMP (Project Management Professional) certification preferred. AICP or other relevant certifications in infrastructure management is a plus.
- Strong understanding of municipal infrastructure, including transportation, water, sewer, parks, and facilities.
- In-depth knowledge of project management principles, budget control, and lifecycle cost analysis.
- Expertise in financial oversight and experience managing multiple funding sources for large capital projects.
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring timely completion within budget and scope
The Sr. Capital Projects Officer job responsibilities include:
- Capital Project Oversight: Maintain comprehensive knowledge of all ongoing and upcoming capital projects, ensuring alignment with the City’s infrastructure and strategic plans (e.g., water/sewer, parks, transportation). Ensure each project is delivered within its scope, budget, and schedule.
- Budget & Financial Management: Monitor project expenditures, track funding sources, and evaluate financial performance. Collaborate with departments to ensure cost-efficient use of resources and maximize funds available for capital improvements.
- Lifecycle Analysis & Asset Management: Assess and manage the life-cycle costs of city assets, ensuring that capital projects integrate long-term maintenance and replacement strategies to reduce overall infrastructure costs.
- Stakeholder Engagement & Coordination: Act as the liaison with other government agencies, developers, and stakeholders, ensuring alignment of capital projects with external initiatives. Advocate for the City's infrastructure needs and goals in regional forums.
- Project Closeout & Evaluation: Monitor the project closeout process, ensure financial and operational performance is reviewed, surplus funds are appropriately reallocated, and lessons learned are incorporated into future projects.
- Infrastructure Strategy & Planning: Contribute to the City’s long-term infrastructure planning efforts by identifying gaps, advocating for increased investment, and assisting in developing funding strategies for unmet infrastructure needs.
Conditions of Employment
The City of Fort Worth is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is the policy and practice of the City to recruit, hire, train and promote a diverse workforce without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, or another non-merit factor.
The City of Fort Worth is committed to full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.
Candidates who do not meet the Education requirement, may be considered if they have more relevant work experience than the position requires. Those selected for employment will be required to pass Pre-Employment checks depending on the position requirements. Those could include, but are not limited to: criminal background check, drug screen, education verification, etc. criminal convictions will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Employees are paid by direct deposit only. -
ABOUT THE COMPANY
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City of Fort Worth
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The City of Cowboys & Culture is known for its Texas hospitality. The stunning and sprawling City of
Fort Worth is one of the fastest-growing cities in the U.S. And it’s no wonder — With great neighborhoods, scenic terrain and a rich history of arts and culture, paired with world-class opportunities for business and education, it’s not only fun to visit Fort Worth, it’s even more rewarding to call it home.Fort Worth truly offers all the benefits and amenities of a bustling metropolitan city, while keeping the small- town charm that keeps it unpretentious and charismatic in all the right ways. Designated as one of America’s “Most Livable Communities” by the Partners for Livable Communities, the city truly offers a melting pot of culture, commerce, community and yes, cowboys.
There are over a dozen remarkable districts full of treasured history among modern luxuries and unique places to have fun, making it the No. 1 tourist destination in Texas and welcoming more than 9.4 million visitors annually.
Being one of the fastest-growing among large cities in the country, Fort Worth has received multiple accolades, including number one downtown (Livability), and the second-best City in the nation for job seekers (Forbes). Our employees serve the needs of over 900,000 residents representing culturally diverse communities.
Exciting Growth & Future Development
One of the most fascinating aspects of the City of Fort Worth is its almost unprecedented growth over the past several years. Both in terms of population and industry, and as the 12th largest city in the United States, Fort Worth is truly booming — which presents both challenges and opportunities to truly develop this city in the right way. Every 30 minutes a new person moves to Fort Worth, so we’re looking for candidates who can embrace an evergrowing and changing environment and improve on it with solutions that work for the entire community of Fort Worth.
Mission
We are working together to build a strong community that others can look to as a pillar of unity and excellence. Through grassroots efforts within the community, and large scale construction and transportation plans that continue to add the infra- structure a growing city like Fort Worth needs, we’ll provide the public services our community requires to continually cultivate the unique city we call home.
Vision
Fort Worth’s vision is to be the most livable and best managed city in the country. We’ll do this by taking care of our citizens, implementing the highest quality standards in our schools, continually improving the neighborhoods we thrive in and the facets of the city that make our town so unique.
Benefits That Are Well Worth It
The City of Fort Worth continues to be dedicated to its employees’ well-being by providing competitive health benefits, a well-rounded wellness program and a Zero Accident Philosophy® workplace. All regular full-time employees and those employees who work 30–39 hours per week are eligible for all City of Fort Worth Benefits. Part-time employees who work 20–29 hours per week are eligible for dental, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, flexible spending accounts, 457 Deferred Compensation plan and other voluntary benefits.
Medical Program
The City offers two plan options through Meritain Health, an Aetna company.
The Health Center Plan – Offers employees and their family’s
primary health care services that are 100% completely free and unlimited. Employees can visit any one of the three City of Fort Worth Employee Health Centers and receive guaranteed same or next day appointments for sick visits. Also, services are available at any one of the five satellite locations that serves employees across the city.
The Consumer Choice Plan – Is offered to employees at no cost or low monthly premiums to cover eligible dependents and provides the financial benefits of a Health Savings Account (HSA).
• Preventative services are covered at 100% on both plans.
• Prescription Drug coverage including mail order pharmacy are also included.Vacation
Eligible for 3 weeks of vacation: After successful completion of probationary period (usually
6 months), employees may take time off for rest, relaxation, vacation, illness, religious observances, and personal business.Holidays
Available on the first day of employment, the city provides employees with paid holidays, including two personal holidays.
Wellness Program
The city’s Healthy Challenge Wellness Program rewards all full-time, benefit-eligible employees on the city’s health insurance. The Healthy Challenge Program utilizes a points system. Participants may earn points throughout the year (Jan. 1-Dec. 15) for completing specific program activities and participants can redeem points at the end of the year for a cash reward. By participating, individuals can earn $150, $200 or $250 by accumulating program points.
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