Featured Job: Technical Services Manager
Closing Date/Time: Mon. 11/13/17 11:59 PM Pacific Time
Salary: $90,521.60 – $114,753.60 Annually
Job Type: Civil Service, Full Time, 40/hrs Wk
Location: Regional Communications & Emergency Coordination Center (RCECC) – 3511 NE 2nd St, Renton, Washington
Department: King County Sheriff’s Office
Description: The King County Sheriff’s Office is inviting stand out candidates who excel at provide strategic IT vision, support and management intermingled with facility operations for our 911 communications center in Renton, WA. This key player will provide oversight, leadership and management of all technical systems, not to mention the responsibility of facility management for the entire Communications Center. As the leader of a superstar team of three, will be working on contracts, policies, and budget/vendor management. This position is a civil service position, for information regarding King County Civil Service Rules, go to Civil Service Rules.
Contact: For more information contact Brittany Hagen Crosser at 206-477-4035 or Brittany.Hagencrosser@kingcounty.gov.
Learn more about this position, or view all available jobs.
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King County offering Kaiser Permanente health plans to employees
Crossposted from Healthy Incentives
During Open Enrollment (Nov. 1-15), King County employees can choose Kaiser Permanente’s SmartCare Connect plan. It offers high-quality care provided by the highest-ranked medical group in the state.1 It also has the lowest out-of-pocket costs of all your plan options.
Now is the time to review your options and choose the plan with the coverage, convenience, and cost that best fits your medical needs and your life.
Selected for care and convenience
King County has selected Kaiser Permanente SmartCare Connect for a number of reasons, including the quality of care available and the variety of ways to access care.
Read more at Healthy Incentives
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Tech Tip: Power BI is not a superhero, but it can turn you into one!
Microsoft’s Power Business Intelligence (Power BI) is a KCIT-delivered service that creates useful and powerful visualizations from your data. With visualizations, it’s easy to tell the story you’ve always wanted to tell but couldn’t get the staff of graph paper on your side. The analytics piece of the program allows you to test and explore ideas. KCIT is delivering Power BI training Dec. 6 for the incredibly low price of $75.00. Sign up and become your team’s newest superhero. Register here.
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General Election ballots due Nov. 7
Don’t forget to vote! Ballots for the General Election are due November 7.
Here’s how to return your ballot:
By mail: Put a first-class stamp on your ballot and mail it back to King County Elections. Your ballot must be postmarked by Election Day.
Ballot drop box: Return your ballot to any one of the 54 ballot drop-off locations; no stamp required. Your ballot must be returned to a ballot drop-off location by 8 p.m. on Election Day.
Accessible voting centers: King County accessible voting centers (AVCs) are open to voters who may have difficulty completing their mail ballot. Anyone who would like to vote at an AVC may do so.
Questions? Call King County Elections at 206-296-VOTE (8683).
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Going beyond carbon neutral: New solar panels installed in our parks
Crossposted from King County Parks Plog
In the fall of 2016, DNRP announced it achieved carbon neutrality a year ahead of scheduleby removing or reducing more GHG emissions than its operations create. But we didn’t stop there! For the past year we have continued to make changes in our department with a green mindset. Recently, two of our parks became a little more sparkly with the welcome addition of more than 300 solar panels. We’re pretty psyched about the project. Check them out!
Marymoor Park Last month 112 new solar panels were installed at the North Utilities Maintenance Shop at Marymoor Park. The system is estimated to produce up to 33,238 kilowatt hours of electricity per year. With the goal of making this a net-zero building, in which the energy it consumes equals the energy it produces.
Read more at King County Parks Plog
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KCInform test will help us reach employees in emergencies
Thank you to everyone who participated in Tuesday’s test of KCInform, King County’s employee emergency notification system.
The results of the test will be used to ensure we can reach employees in an emergency with critical, time-sensitive information – at work, home or on-the-go.
If you haven’t yet registered your personal contact or work cell information, please contact kcinform@kingcounty.gov or 206-296-3830 (between 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Monday – Friday) to request your unique registration link. Watch this short video to learn more or visit our website.
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A job with a view
This article originally appeared in the Seattle Transit Blog. It features Link operator Kevin Gumke.
In a tight workspace with barely enough room to turn around, light rail operators enjoy some of the most unusual views of Seattle from their cabs as they traverse the city. Like all Link operators, Kevin Gumke started out driving for King County Metro Transit, before transferring over to the light rail side in 2010. To qualify, bus drivers must have a squeaky-clean driving record and complete 8 weeks of paid training, starting with a week of classroom instruction.
“It’s actually pretty easy,” Gumke said about operating a light rail vehicle. He contributes his experience driving a trolley route, at a time before trolleys could briefly travel under battery power, as good preparation for operating a light rail vehicle.
Read more at Seattle Transit Blog.
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King County Noxious Weed Program launches web pages in four languages!
Crossposted from Noxious Weeds Blog
Want to learn more about noxious weeds in Spanish—or know someone who does? How about Vietnamese, Chinese, Russian, or Somali? Well now, King County’s Noxious Weed Control Program has made a start to offer just that.
This week, the program launched a revised and expanded version of its Spanish web page, along with four brand new web pages hosting noxious-weed-related resources in an array of languages. You can find these pages gathered under a new “Languages” landing page as well as linked directly in the right column of the noxious weeds home page.
Read more at Noxious Weeds Blog
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eCourt: Case filing made easy
With over 200,000 case filings a year, King County District Court clerks processed 2,429,000 pieces of paper in one year alone using a 1980’s software system jokingly referred to as the ‘black screen of death’. In order to improve workflow efficiency, expedite cases and reduce their carbon footprint, District Court is launching eCourt, a new electronic case management system that offers new functionality County employees and residents will enjoy, electronic filing being one of them.
“Not only the Court is reducing its carbon footprint, we’re helping other people reduce their carbon footprint on the world: they don’t have to drive to court any longer; they’re going to save money on gas; they’re not going to be required to leave work. They can do it at midnight if they wish to,” Judge Elizabeth Stephenson said.
To learn more view the video below or visit the District Court website.
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King County Executive, Governor celebrate Colman Dock project and our future home
Crossposted from the Captain’s Blog
As crews continue to build King County Water Taxi’s future home, Executive Dow Constantine, Gov. Jay Inslee and other transportation leaders took time last week to celebrate the progress of the Seattle Multimodal Terminal at Colman Dock Project.
The Executive was one of the keynote speakers at a celebration inside Colman Dock, the state’s busiest terminal, which overlooks the site of the Water Taxi’s future Passenger Only Ferry (POF) facility.
Executive Constantine – who has long made improving mobility throughout the region one of his priorities – spoke about the Water Taxi’s role in getting people out of their cars and out of gridlock.
“When we talk about transit, we mean everything: buses and trains and light rail and van pools and water taxis,” he said. “Our new passenger-only ferry terminal here at Pier 50 represents a big step in improving the experience of the ever-increasing number of riders crossing the Puget Sound.”
Read more at the Captain’s Blog
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