Career Conversations – Exploring Professions in Your Community

Deputy City Manager
This role is essentially the Chief Operations Officer for the city with responsibilities focused on the internal workings of the organization. The Community Engagement and Human Resources Departments report directly to the Deputy and top priorities include updating city policies to ensure equity, enhancing community engagement, and improving workplace culture. The Deputy is second in command to the City Manager who is responsible for the day to day operations of the city including administration of the $100 million budget, strategic planning, economic growth and development in the City, oversight of all city services, and close coordination with the City Commission. Essential skills for the deputy role include leadership, coordination and collaboration, problem solving, decision making, and project management.

Civil Engineer
This role plans, designs, and maintains infrastructure needed for modern day life. Projects include roads, bridges, water and sewer systems, and buildings. Civil engineers help ensure people have access to clean water, can travel to jobs, businesses, and recreation, and can live in healthy environments. Much of the work is focused around fitting infrastructure projects into the existing environment. Essential skills include math, science, coordination, teamwork, and problem solving.

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I run the day to day operations for a local roofing company. I’ve been here 15 years so at this point I’m a jack of all trades. I do orders to make sure everything needed is at the job sites. I run appointments ranging from repairs to multi million dollar projects throughout the day. Usually closing out by checking on my crew and customers to maintain the highest quality service I can to everyone involved in the process.

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This job is a Para Professional job so it straddles both the daily desk work at the library and Youth Services programs and take and makes. Daily desk work includes interacting with the public, checking books in and out, shelving books, and more. Programming includes coming up with new and interesting programs, crafts, and ways to interact with the community in the library and where they are.

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