Assistant Division Manager - Operations, WMS2Recruitment #2024-1-5697Full-time, WMS2, Non-represented positionLocation: Natural Resources Building- Olympia, WAWork Hours and Partial Telework flexibility may be available and consideredRelocation Compensation may be available and consideredSalary: $95,050.00 - $110,861.00 Annually To allow for growth and salary progression the full salary range is: $95,050.00 - $116,696 Annually **Review of applications is ongoing. *We reserve the right to make a hiring decision or close this recruitment at any time after 1/19/24. It is in your best interest to submit materials as soon as possible.*Want to join something GREAT and make a difference?DNR's Forest Regulation program administers the rules that protect public safety, water quality, and fish and wildlife habitat on the 12 million acres of Washington's state-owned and private forestlands. The rules, developed by the Forest Practices Board, protect public safety and public resources -- including standards for logging, road construction, pesticide application, and other forestry-related activities -- while maintaining a viable forest products industry in Washington. The program also assists Washington's family forest owners through its Small Forest Landowner Office. The office provides technical and financial assistance to help owners manage their unique lands and meet their goals while keeping the forestlands on the landscape -- be it through protecting or restoring fish and wildlife habitat, reducing fuels for wildfires, improving forest health, generating money, or all of the above.This position is one of six managers within the Forest Regulation Division leadership team, this position is responsible for tactical and strategic oversight of statewide forest practices field operations related to consistent, effective, and efficient implementation of the Forest Practices Rules. This includes direct oversight of four functional programs within the Forest Practices Division: operations and region support; geologist/engineering consulting; training; and rule compliance monitoring.

　　Responsibilities:

　　Provides tactical oversight of statewide field operations related to Forest Practices

　　Implementation coordination with peers (Assistant Region Managers) in DNR's Regions and statewide coordination with agencies with overlapping and complementary regulatory responsibilities.

　　Providing expert advice/guidance to regional program staff concerning operations, unstable landforms/slopes, and hydraulic project engineering.

　　Facilitating informal dispute resolution with landowners and other interested parties.

　　Staffing legal appeals of program regulatory decisions and enforcement actions.

　　Developing and verifying consistent implementation of program rule implementation guidance.

　　Monitoring actual compliance with Rules; and

　　Developing and providing appropriate training to program staff, landowners/operators, and other interested parties to help ensure understanding and field-based compliance with Rules.

　　Provides excellent employee supervision and serves on the Forest Regulation Division Management Team Responsible for supervising assigned staff including establishing and maintaining clear performance expectations and priorities, supporting employee growth and development, providing coaching and mentoring, providing performance feedback, and effectively taking or recommending corrective action when appropriate to do so.

　　Helps develop budget requests for assigned program areas, makes effective and efficient use of approved budgets to accomplish specified priorities and deliverables, monitors expenditures, and anticipates and makes recommendations for budget adjustments.

　　Provides