Renewal & Replacement Jobs Specialist - Hetch Hetchy Water & Power - (Moccasin) - 5602 - (Exempt)

Company Description

• Application Opening: Tuesday, January 13, 2026
• Application Filing Deadline: Friday, January 30, 2026
• Recruitment ID:  RTF0161965/ TEX-5602-161966
• Annual Salary: $126,646 - $187,226

APPOINTMENT TYPE: Exempt: This position is excluded by the Charter from the competitive Civil Service examination process and shall serve at the discretion of the Appointing Officer. The duration of the appointment shall not exceed 36 months.

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.gov.

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.gov/about-us/careers-sfpuc

Job Description

Project: Hetch Hetchy Renewal and Replacement Program

Under the direction of the Renewal & Replacement (R&R) Manager, the 5602 position will serve as the Job Manager over multiple Hetch Hetchy Water and Power (HHWP) R&R projects that were approved in the HHWP 10-year Capital Improvement Plan (CIP). Following established project management policies and procedures, the 5602 Renewal & Replacement Jobs Specialist will plan, develop, construct, and commission multidisciplinary capital improvement projects within the HHWP Division.

Essential Functions:

1. Facilitate the job scope development, prepare business justifications supporting the fiscal appropriations, prepare Construction Management Plans, initiate, and manage professional service and construction task orders, prepare weekly and monthly job status reports, oversee construction and commissioning quality assurance, and thoroughly document completed projects through closeout processes.
2. Develops, maintains, and forecasts monthly and multi-year job cost plans based on the job work breakdown structure.
3. Develops, maintains, and forecasts Critical Path Method (CPM) schedules based on the job work breakdown structure.
4. Develops Job Order Contract task orders using existing construction contracts.
5. Coordinates water conveyance and power outage needs with Hetch Hetchy managers.
6. Identifies operational constraints and develops, evaluates, or recommends policies and procedures to improve operations, mitigate risks, and decrease costs.
7. Writes a variety of documents including reports; work plans; general correspondence; project and job descriptions; operating procedures and policy recommendations; meeting minutes; documentation of forecast methodologies and model assumptions; reports that explain schedule and cost variances and trends, provide cost effective recommendations to mitigate adverse variances and to support negotiation of change order costs with contractors; and other types of written documents as needed to support the diverse work activities assigned to this class.
8. Class 5602 Utility Specialist performs other related duties as required.

Qualifications

Applicants must meet the minimum qualification requirement by the final filing date unless otherwise noted.

Education: Possession of a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university preferably with major coursework in Law, Engineering, Environmental Studies, Natural Resources, Computer Science, Business Administration, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or other field related to the utility business;

AND,

Experience: Four (4) years of verifiable journey-level work experience in one or more of the following areas: planning, scheduling, cost estimating and resource projecting for mi