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The City of Orono is an Equal Opportunity Employer • Personnel and Human Resources — Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems. Skills: • Active Listening — Give full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. • Monitoring — Monitor/Assess performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. • Speaking — Talk to others to convey information effectively. • Coordination — Adjust actions in relation to others' actions. • Management of Personnel Resources — Motivate, develop, and direct people as they work, identifying the best people for the job. • Time Management — Manage one's own time and the time of others. • Critical Thinking — Use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. • Reading Comprehension — Understand written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. • Complex Problem Solving — Identify complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. Abilities: • Oral Comprehension — Able to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. • Oral Expression — Able to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. • Problem Sensitivity — Able to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. • Written Comprehension — Able to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. • Deductive Reasoning — Able to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. • Inductive Reasoning — Able to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). • Information ordering — Able to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). Minimum Requirements • Formal public works and supervisor training such as post-secondary technical certification/degree in water supply and distribution systems, sewer collection systems, stormwater, public works administration or a closely related field., or equivalent; and • Five (5) years of experience in a leadership or public management role. • Ten (10) years of experience in all aspects of public works.