Featured Job: Engineer I – CAD
Closing Date/Time: Sun. 11/26/17 11:59 PM Pacific Time
Salary: $31.23 – $39.58 Hourly
Job Type: Career Service, Full Time, 40 hrs/week
Location: King Street Center – 201 S Jackson St, Seattle, Washington
Department: Department of Natural Resources & Parks – Water and Land Resources Division
Description: This position is located in the Capital Improvement & Preservation Unit within the Stormwater Services Section. Projects in our unit include drainage improvement to minimize flooding, manage stormwater runoff to improve water quality, retrofit stormwater facilities to improve and restore their functions. This unit also provides support to many other Capital Improvement Programs (CIP) within DNRP (e.g. Ecological Restoration and Engineering Unit, River and Floodplain Management Section, Parks) and CIP in KCDOT Roads. This position is to provide CAD and Civil3D services and survey support to civil engineers, ecologists, scientists, and project managers.
Contact: For more information contact Michelle Kobuki at Michelle.Kobuki@kingcounty.gov or at 206-477-4740.
Learn more about this position, or view all available jobs.
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Kudos! Clinic staff receive rave from Seattle Times readers
This piece was featured at the top of the Seattle Times’ Rant and Raves list. Kudos to the people working at the Seattle/King County Clinic!
“RAVE To the selfless, kind people who took time out of their busy working lives to provide free medical and dental care to people in need at the Seattle/King County Clinic at Seattle Center on Oct. 26-29.”
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Social Media Spotlight: King County Emergency News blog
This blog is maintained by King County Emergency Management. In the event of a widespread disaster or other significant event, it will be used to inform residents in King County, Washington and the central Puget Sound region. The information provided may include safety tips, emergency directives, ways to stay informed, and important updates.
Follow the King County Emergency News blog today!
Click here to view all King County social media pages.
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Reminder: Current Administrative Professionals are invited to attend a focus group
The Administrative Professionals Advisory Committee has scheduled a second series of focus groups to hear directly from administrative professionals regarding the success of the program and what is needed to improve it. Feedback provided will help the committee learn how to best support administrative professionals at King County. Register for one of the following focus group sessions:
- Tuesday, November 14, 2017 from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. – Register here
- Thursday, November 16, 2017 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. – Register here
- Wednesday, December 6, 2017 from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. – Register here
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We will pay to train you
Crossposted from Clean Water Stories
Our business is unconventional – and that works for a lot of our employees.
We get it. Any of us who work here at King County’s Wastewater Treatment Division (WTD) have been asked what we do for a living – and we’ve seen the smirks and heard the giggles when we explain we help run the region’s sewer utility.
Most of us did not seek out a career in wastewater, but many of us were pleasantly surprised when we found one. The people who operate our treatment plants and build our projects say things like…
- “I like that my job is more than just working in an office.”
- “I was hooked on the first treatment plant tour.”
- “I love the water, and why not be a part of protecting it?”
Read more at Clean Water Stories
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Success! Nonprofit Expo hosts a full house
Crossposted from KC Employee Giving
On November 1, Chinook hosted the final Nonprofit Expo Roadshow for this year’s Annual Giving Drive. The conference room was filled from wall to wall with 14 nonprofit organizations, and 70 County employees filtered through from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Organizations that attended the Expo run the gamut from the Make-A-Wish Alaska and Washington to Leukemia & Lymphoma Society to Project Canine and Feral Cat Spay/Neuter Project. Other nonprofit organizations that attended offer services that empower women, provide assistance to marginalized groups and environment preservation.
Read more at KC Employee Giving
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Honoring our Veterans through workplace giving
Crossposted from KC Employee Giving
In observance of Veterans Day 2017, we would like to encourage King County employees to give back to the men and women who have served to make America the land of the free. Here are some nonprofits who work to support veterans:
Heartbeat Serving Wounded Warriors (9525) PO Box 704 Snohomish, WA 98291 – provides emergency assistance, morale building programs and innovative therapeutic services for Wounded Warriors and their families.
Last year, Heartbeat assisted 4,730 Wounded Warrior families. Although the organization’s primary focus are families, 20% of soldiers are single. Most notably, Heartbeat recently began providing assistance to disabled children of wounded warriors in their Equine program.
Read more at KC Employee Giving
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Prosecuting Attorney’s Office profile: Sean Goode
If you wanted to create a profile for the type of kid who would end up involved in drugs, in gangs, in the juvenile justice system, Executive Director of the Choose 180 Program Sean Goode says the description would match his childhood.
Both of Sean’s parents struggled with mental health diseases: his father with schizophrenia; his mother with a personality disorder. His drug-and-alcohol-dependent father was also highly abusive.
“We left my father when I was 8,” Sean says. “I lived in 12 different places in 12 different years of school. As a result, I dealt with a whole lot of issues, including suicide attempts when I was small.”
Sean’s sister ran away from home. His brother was sent to juvenile prison as an early teenager for murder. Despite all the factors that might also have landed Sean in the juvenile justice system, Sean’s life took a different turn.
Read more at the Prosecuting Attorney’s Office website.
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King County introduces new medical plan option for employees in 2018
Crossposted from Healthy Incentives
For the first time in more than 10 years, King County employees have a new medical plan option in 2018: KingCare Select. Employees who choose KingCare Select will choose one of four Accountable Health Networks (AHNs) in the Puget Sound region. An accountable health network is a group of health care professionals working as a team to provide affordable, high-quality health care.
The four Accountable Health Networks are:
- Eastside Health Network (EvergreenHealth Partners-Overlake)
- The Everett Clinic
- MultiCare Connected Care™
- UW Medicine
Read more at Healthy Incentives
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Honoring our military veterans
Dear fellow King County employee,
King County Executive Dow Constantine
Every year, our nation comes together to salute the men and women who answered the call of duty to serve in our nation’s armed forces. To protect and preserve our freedoms, they placed their lives in harm’s way, often thousands of miles from home and family.
Among the more than 112,550 veterans who call King County home are 1,054 men and women with whom we work every day – fellow employees in every branch and every department in King County. Over the past year, 92 of those employees have been called to Active or Reserve duty.
Veterans Day is our opportunity to thank all of these patriots and colleagues for their service, and this Veterans Day King County is recognizing our employee military veterans and reservists with a specially designed bronzed lapel pin as a symbol of our ongoing appreciation.
I am proud to say that here, in King County, we do more than just voice appreciation to our local heroes: we demonstrate our respect through action. Tuesday’s election returns show overwhelming support from our community for the renewal and expansion of our Veterans, Seniors and Human Services Levy. Thanks to that funding, our King County Veterans Program is able to connect veterans and their families to housing, emergency assistance and job training. The levy also supports our King County Vets 4 HIRE Program, providing veterans with a broad range of internship opportunities.
With the support of the voters, we are committed to helping every veteran in King County successfully transition from their military service to a productive and fulfilling civilian life.
That’s our duty.
Veterans Day is November 11. Please join me in a moment of thanks to all of our veterans, active duty personnel and their families. We are forever grateful for their contributions, service and sacrifice.
Sincerely,
Dow Constantine
King County Executive
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