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UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING TO: FROM: ERMU Commission Wage & Benefits Committee MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: February 11, 2020 5.4 SUBJECT: Wage & Benefits Committee Update ACTION REQUESTED: Approve the following organizational structure changes as indicated in the attached organizational chart: 1.Change System Engineer position to Engineering Manager at pay grade M10. 2.Change IT/OT Manager position to IT/OT Technician at pay grade F9. DISCUSSION: For two years there has been a vacant Information Technology / Operational Technology Manager position. After the initial attempt to fill, the position was evaluated by the committee and a modification was approved by the commission to increase the responsibilities and effectively the pay rate. This modified position was posted, and again, the position was unable to be filled. Staff had contacted recruiting firms for pricing to fill the vacant position. The fees to use a firm were $30,000 on the low end. And, the feedback was that it would be best to hire an engineer for that position. On January 14, the committee met to discuss the vacant IT/OT Manager position. It was determined that the positions job responsibilities were a unique combination of skills including project management, technical aptitude, communication, and IT/OT. The combination was so unique that the pool of potential candidates was non-existent. There was consensus that rather than hiring a firm to place an engineer in the IT/OT manger position, that we should re-evaluate that position as an engineer on our own. It was imperative that we fill the position and due to difficulty finding the appropriate candidate, creative solutions were needed. The core competencies needed from the IT/OT manager position were really project management, technical aptitude, and communication. All these skills are already possessed by our System Engineer. The IT/OT specific skills were secondary to those of leadership skills. The committee determined that a different approach to achieve the same balance of skills would be to change the System Engineer position into an Engineering Manager position to provide high level policy development, leadership, and project management skills. Then change the IT/OT Manager position to an IT/OT Technician to provide the complement of specific technical skills. ______________________________________________________________________________ Page 1 of 2 96