Maintenance Manager (0933) - WSTD - SFPUC (160148)

Company Description

Application Opening: December 23, 2025

Application Filing Deadline: January 9, 2026

Recruitment ID: PBT-0933-160148 / RTF0159767-01091720

This is a Position-Based Test Conducted in accordance with CSC Rule 111A.

WHO ARE WE?
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC)
Headquartered in San Francisco, we have 2,300 employees operating across eight counties serving more than 2.7 million customers in the San Francisco Bay Area – 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.

Our Mission: To provide our customers with high quality, efficient, and reliable water, power, and wastewater services in a manner that values environmental and community interests and sustains the resources entrusted to our care.

Our Vision: We are an innovative utility leader, recognized for excellent results in service, safety, stewardship, and inclusiveness.

We are an award-winning and industry-leading utilities organization committed to our customers, community interests, and the environment. To learn more about our organization, please visit our website at https://www.sfpuc.org/.

We are proud of our infrastructure and programs, but most importantly, we value our highly qualified and dedicated workforce which ensures that this vision becomes a reality.

To learn more about working at the SFPUC, visit our career site at https://www.sfpuc.org/about-us/careers-sfpuc

Job Description

About the Water Supply and Treatment Division

One of the three largest operating divisions in the Water Enterprise serving 2.7 million residential, commercial, and industrial customers in the Bay Area, the Water Supply and Treatment Division manages a complex water supply and treatment system stretching from the Tesla Treatment Facility in San Joaquin County to San Francisco, featuring a series of reservoirs, tunnels, pipelines, and treatment facilities. The division has a staff of 240 employees and is managed by a team headquartered in Millbrae consisting of a division manager and 5 section managers overseeing its business operations, distribution, engineering, maintenance, and system operations sections.                
 

About the Position

Under the direction of the Water Supply and Treatment Division (WSTD) Manager, the WSTD Maintenance Manager directs the Division’s maintenance activities.  This requires day-to-day oversight of WSTD’s buildings and grounds, automotive shops, carpenter shops, paint shops, maintenance planning, and electrical, electronic and plumbing work for the Regional Water System’s (RWS) treatment and transmission facilities; coordination with other Water Enterprise divisions and SFPUC departments to maintain a high-level of service and responsiveness; collaboration in all Division management initiatives, both as the maintenance lead and as a team member in support of administrative, operations, and engineering leads.

1.    Oversee and coordinate maintenance activities for RWS treatment and transmission facilities to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, SFPUC level of service goals, asset management objectives, and SFPUC level of service goals.
2.    Manage response to unplanned outages including fires, earthquakes, floods, failure of other utilities located near water facilities, and other natural and man-made disasters.
3.    Provide review and support for capital improvement and maintenance projects including design review for operational and maintenance impacts. 
4.    Support condition assessment of buildings, grounds, and communications, electrical, electronic, mechanical and plumbing assets/systems. 
5.    Oversee preventive and corrective maintenance activities for treatment and transmission facilities to assure preventive maintenance goals and schedules are met, regulatory preventive maintenance requirements are met, and priority corrective maintenance activities are completed and documented in Maximo.
6.    Perform short-term and long-term planning and create reports to ensure adequate resource levels (staffing, equipment, and training) are provided.
7.    Manage materials, equipment, vehicles and other resources assigned to subordinate staff effectively, efficiently, and maintain a high level of accountability.
8.    Prepare and analyze system performance reports, recommend changes and improvements, and continuously implement and enforce policies and procedures.
9.    Enforce existing policies and procedures for subordinate work groups and develop and update policies and procedures with management oversight appropriately.
10.    Develop and