Website MilpitasCityGov City of Milpitas
Located just North of San Jose, California
The City of Milpitas Public Works Department is seeking a skilled and motivated Maintenance Supervisor to lead the operations of our Water Section!
The ideal candidate is a dynamic leader with a strong background in water distribution and treatment systems, and a deep commitment to public service and environmental stewardship.
The Maintenance Supervisor for the Public Works Department Water Section plans, organizes, and supervises the operations, maintenance, and repair of water and associated infrastructure. This role oversees field crews and lead staff responsible for ensuring safe, reliable, and compliant drinking water through proper treatment processes, system maintenance, and facility upkeep. The position ensures work is completed efficiently, in accordance with regulatory standards, and in alignment with departmental goals. The Maintenance Supervisor also assists in budget preparation, monitors use of equipment, materials, and chemicals, and ensures compliance with environmental and public health regulations.
Duties may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Plans, organizes, directs, and oversees a comprehensive maintenance and repair program for the potable and recycled water distribution systems
- Prioritizes and schedules maintenance and repair of the water systems and associated pump stations, reservoirs and pressure stations utilizing the computerized maintenance management system (CMMS)
- Ensures water quality while monitoring system flow, reservoir levels and chemical compliance remotely via a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system (SCADA)
- Inspects facilities
- Oversees water quality testing
- Ensures compliance with federal and state regulations
- In the absence of the Public Works Division Manager acts as the chief operator of the distribution system
- Assists in developing and implementing goals, objectives, policies and priorities for the division and assigned section
- Supervises section to ensure balanced work distribution, cross training, and maximizing work efficiencies
- Prioritizes and assigns work, schedules employee work shifts, overtime, vacation, sick leave coverage and related, and reviews and approves timecards
- Trains employees in work procedures, standards, and safety practices, and reviews work in progress or upon completion for compliance with standards
- Interviews and recommends selection of job applicants, appraises employee performance, conducts informal counseling on work issues and prepares documentation, and recommends discipline and improvement plans for deficiencies
- Develops procedures and standards to ensure sound work and compliance with applicable regulations
- Inspects maintenance sites to evaluate work process and quality; resolves work problems; determines additional needs; assumes continuous support and follow up
- Inspects service contractors’ or vendors’ work and verifies work and/or materials delivered and approves billing for payment
Qualifications:
- Education: Equivalent to completion of the twelfth grade.
- Experience: Five (5) years of increasingly responsible experience in the maintenance of public works facilities including the areas of streets, facilities, utilities, fleet, parks and/or street landscape. Including two years of experience as a lead worker over a crew.
License or Certificate:
- Valid California Class C driver’s license.
- Commercial Driver’s license Class B with tanker endorsement is preferred, but not required.
In addition, when assigned to the Water Division:
- Possession of a D4 water distribution system operator certificate issued by the California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) with the ability to obtain a D5 within 11 months of appointment.
- Possession of a T2 water treatment facility operator certificate issued by the California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB).
Panel Interviews are tentatively scheduled for the week of April 6, 2026 via Zoom.
Apply before the closing date, March 23, 2026 at:
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