Assistant Program Manager Engineering

The Planningand Development Services Department provides opportunities for continuouslearning and professional growth. You will be working with a team of scientistsand engineers with multiple backgrounds brining expertise and experience fromvarious sectors: government industry and academia with a passion toprotect the environment. The Watershed Management Division strives forfirst class service delivery and continued national recognition by makingcontributions that have broader impacts and implications beyond the County.

As the Assistant Program Manager Engineeringyou will lead and mentor a team of engineers and other professionals conductingenvironmental plan reviews for erosion & sediment control stormwatermanagement flood and others; and advance education process improvement andprogrammatic changes to facilitate permitting process and compliance.

You will manage relationships and collaborate with the development community stakeholders and partner municipalities and lead a responsive customer-centric team that proactively assesses situations to prevent issues from escalating. The Assistant Program Manager Engineering will work closely with the Division and Department leaderships to advance newdepartment initiatives budget process expansion requests performancemeasures as well as help track and make provisions to accommodate legislativechanges to program.

The Wake County Planning and Development Services Department consistently functions at a nationally recognized level. We are comprised of four Divisions consisting of Administration Planning & Zoning Building Permits & Inspections and Watershed Management. We sustain success by consistently hiring the best and brightest of well-rounded individuals. Our Department embraces different perspectives and collaboration and fully supports the opportunity for leadership to occur at all levels within the Department.

• Bachelors degree in Engineering
• Four years of experience in environmental health environmental planning inspections or engineering
• North Carolina Professional Engineers (PE) License upon hire or the ability to obtain through comity; Valid Drivers License and safe driving record
• Equivalent education and experience are accepted

• Please include ALL prior work experience on your application and resume.

• Masters degree in Civil or Environmental Engineering or related fields
• Five years of applying engineering principles to sedimentation & erosion control and stormwater management

• Ability to communicate effectively in written and oral formats to explain technical specifications to non-technical groups
• Ability to work and build relationships with internal and external stakeholders and collaborate on projects involving multiple people and organizations
• Excellent knowledge of providing customer service principles and processes including assessing customer needs meeting service quality standards and evaluating customer satisfaction
• Excellent ability to identify system performance measures and take action to improve or correct performance while maintaining high-quality competitive core services
• Excellent analytical problem-solving and computer skills with in-depth knowledge of rules design principles and methods for controlling sedimentation and erosion and mitigating stormwater runoff and flooding

Location: WCOBRaleigh NC 27602

Employment Type: Regular

Work Schedule: Mon - Fri 8:30am - 5:15pm

Hiring Range: 76986.00 - 107785.00

Market Range: 76986.00 - 138582.00

Please include ALL prior work experience on your application and resume.

Posting Closing Date: 7:00 pm on 11/14/2026