This is administrative analysis work coordinating the development and implementation of management systems and methods for municipal refuse collection and disposal operations. The employee in this class serves as staff assistant to the deputy streets commissioner for sanitation with responsibility for devising and modifying policies and procedures for more effective sanitation activities. Contacts with City officials and private contractors are significant aspects of the work. Work is performed under the direction of the deputy streets commissioner.

• Confers with and coordinates the activities of administrative, engineering and operating personnel in order to effectively utilize manpower, facilities and equipment in municipal refuse collection and disposal activities; analyzes existing sanitation operations to develop plans to redistribute personnel and equipment to achieve more efficient sanitation operations; confers with and advises the chief sanitation engineer, the sanitation operations administrator and the sanitation fleet manager in formulating programs which will implement new management techniques and procedures; researches methods used in other jurisdictions and examines the suitability and practicality of adopting or modifying current sanitation practices to incorporate these new techniques.
• Prepares the operating budget for the division; justifies new and expanded programs; allocates budgeted resources on a priority basis; participates with engineering and other administrative personnel in determining priorities for capital construction of refuse disposal facilities; prepares program proposals for federal funding to provide additional personnel for cleaning and collection activities, to provide funds for training programs, and to employ the disadvantaged.
• Investigates and obtains landfill contract possibilities; initiates negotiations for contractual landfill disposal facilities; negotiates costs with owners of landfill sites and prepares preliminary drafts of contracts; resolves dumping problems with owners to avoid delays in disposing of incinerator residue or solid waste material; supervises subordinate responsible for handling problems occurring between landfill contracts and the department; authorizes payments to vendors for disposal of refuse at landfill facilities.
• Analyzes sanitation operations with a view towards increasing efficiency; streamlines information flow and develops new systems to provide management data and reports; reviews manpower and equipment levels to determine appropriate levels needed to increase services.
• Directs through a subordinate the operation of the Sanitation Management Information System; ensures the timeliness and accuracy of data inputs and outputs; analyzes existing systems in order to determine if it can be changed and the total effect of changes to the system.
• Reviews existing data reporting systems and develops plans for the maximum utilization of such information for operational purposes; supervises the revision of reporting systems and instructs supervisory operational personnel in the changes and new uses of information provided by the sanitation management information system; assembles data on time and production statistics and operations costs for each collections district; institutes new and updates existing forms for use in collecting statistical data.
• Serves as the major staff assistant to the deputy commissioner; answers correspondence and represents him at meetings of city officials and community groups; serves as coordinator on special reports of the division's operations such as those on absenteeism, cleaning, collection and disposal problems; makes recommendations to alleviate such problems.
• Supervises subordinates responsible for receiving telephone complaints from citizens expressing concerns over the collection of their refuse; insures, through subordinate staff, that complaints are distributed to the appropriate party and area collections district; confers with collections area supervisors to resolve unusual problems of the citizenry.
• Performs related work as required.

KNOWLEDGE OF:

• the principles and practices of public administration.
• the principles and practices of administrative organization and scientific management and their application in solving operational and administrative problems.
• the principles and practices of administrative analysis, administrative control and work simplification.
• the principles and practices of public finance as they apply to the preparation and control of operating and capital budgets.

ABILITY TO:

• evaluate the effectiveness of administrative functions pertaining to a large-scale municipal refuse collection and disposal program and in making procedural changes to provide for more effective and efficient sanitation operations.
• analyze and evaluate a variety of facts and data.
• supervise a group of employees engaged in various aspects of sanitation operations.
• establish and maintain effective working relationships with associates, representatives of central agencies, contractors and the public.
• present ideas effectively, both orally and in writing.
• learn the general organization of the city government, particularly as it applies to administrative organization and management.

• Completion of a bachelor's degree program at an accredited college or university.
• Five years of experience in any of the administrative occupations or in a responsible supervisory capacity, three years of which shall have been in any one of the following:
  1. At the full performance level in a large business or governmental organization gathering and analyzing facts on field and plant operations, practices, and organizational structure and recommending changes in existing systems;

     or

  2. In administrative office management work which has included budget preparation, expenditure control, and production reporting in a large scale refuse collection and disposal activity;

     or

  3. Directing the operations of a sanitation area or refuse disposal plant.

PHYSICAL AND MEDICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Ability to physically perform the duties and to work in the environmental conditions required of a position in this class.

PAY RANGE: EP23
Class Established: 1/1969
Latest Spec. Revision: 8/1999


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