Head of Civil Engineering Office 80-100%

About the job

Your new role

Together with your superior, the city council, the Planning and Construction Directorate, and your dedicated teams, you will passionately and expertly shape the high construction culture for a vibrant urban space with a high quality of life.

You are responsible for the strategic and operational management as well as the forward-looking development of the Civil Engineering Office in the context of politics and public administration. You lead demanding projects with technical, financial, and political significance, consider the diverse requirements of public spaces, and rely on contemporary, sustainable, and ecological design. In exchange with external stakeholders and internal administrative offices, you coordinate the development of public road and traffic infrastructure. In all your activities, you develop and connect people, processes, and technologies in a balanced way and keep the big picture in mind. Your activities focus on customer and employee satisfaction, economic efficiency, safety, and sustainability.

This position is for you if

• You have a university degree in civil engineering or spatial development and infrastructure systems, complemented by business management training.
• You have several years of leadership, specialist, and project experience in infrastructure management with revenue and results responsibility.
• You lead clearly and decisively, provide orientation, set accents and impulses for change, and promote a appreciative and participative culture.
• You are a confident personality with a clear stance, respectful demeanour, convincing communication, as well as negotiation and decision-making strength.
• You foster dialogue with various stakeholders and bring new technologies and trends with initiative, creativity, and a sense for politics, administration, and business.

Good reasons to work for the City of St. Gallen:

Your department

With around 160 dedicated employees, you ensure city-appropriate mobility and design, plan, build, and maintain public spaces as well as traffic infrastructures within the city area. In doing so, we make an important contribution to the high quality of life in the City of St. Gallen.

We offer

We offer you a responsible, versatile, and interesting leadership role at the interface between politics, administration, population, and business. Good compatibility of work and family life and modern employment conditions with flexible working hours and five weeks of holiday per year in a future-oriented city administration complete our offer.

Further information

Our commissioned Executive Search partner, Anita R. Salt, is happy to assist you at

M: +41 78 885 66 60.

We look forward to receiving your electronic application at anita.salt@saltconsulting.ch.

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