Head of Technical Services/Head of Technical Services

Head of Technical Services/Head of Technical Services
Historic municipality located in the district of Morges, Aubonne combines the characteristics of a human-scale town with those of a regional center. Its particularly diverse territory and heritage, as well as the many ongoing and future projects, place the Technical Services at a new stage of their development today.
Having become a multidisciplinary service grouping specialized skills, the Technical Services intervene notably in the fields of urban planning and land use, construction police, buildings, civil engineering, road infrastructure, networks, and territorial information systems.
Following the departure of the current holder, the Commune d’Aubonne is putting up for tender the position of
HEAD OF TECHNICAL SERVICES
Your mission: Set the course – Empower – Prioritize
Reporting directly to the Municipality and the respective municipal officers in charge, you lead all Technical Services activities and ensure the coordination of their various areas of expertise. As a true technical chief of staff, you provide an overall vision, set priorities, and establish an operating framework that allows the service specialists to fully exercise their responsibilities. As a partner to the Municipality, you ensure the interface between political ambitions and their operational feasibility.
Your responsibilities
Lead Technical Services activities and ensure coherence between their various areas of expertise.
Manage a multidisciplinary team of specialists by promoting delegation, autonomy, and empowerment.
Define priorities and ensure the adequacy between the project portfolio, recurring missions, and available resources.
Supervise a diverse portfolio of projects in the fields of urban planning, land use, buildings, civil engineering, road infrastructure, and networks.
Develop a medium and long-term vision for the municipal infrastructure and heritage and contribute to investment planning.
Develop and manage the service budgets and contribute to the preparation of investment plans and reports.
Advise the Municipality, present alternatives and their consequences, and formulate recommendations allowing for informed decision-making.
Develop transversal collaborations with other municipal services and ensure a fluid circulation of information.
Support the evolution of the Technical Services organization in a logic of empowerment, transversality, and efficiency.
Your profile
You benefit from a higher technical education at the HES level or deemed equivalent, relevant to the fields of Technical Services: architecture, urban planning, land use, civil engineering, or a related discipline. Complementary training in management and complex project management ideally completes your background.
You have proven experience in a complex technical environment and have already managed a multidisciplinary team composed of autonomous specialists. You are also accustomed to simultaneously conducting projects of different sizes and natures and know how to structure, prioritize, and arbitrate a large portfolio.
Your generalist technical culture allows you to grasp diverse issues while taking into account the regulatory framework of public authorities, land use, construction, and public procurement.
You know how to take a step back without losing touch with the field. Your management is based on empowerment and trust, with the capacity to decide, arbitrate, and refocus when necessary.
You combine strategic vision and pragmatism, and possess a sharp sense of priorities to advance several projects simultaneously.
Your organizational and political intelligence allows you to translate technical realities into understandable issues, argue for the needs of the service, and propose options allowing the authorities to arbitrate.
Attractiveness of the position
A transversal and stimulating management position combining management, strategic steering, technical issues, and public service, within a human-scale municipality endowed with a remarkable heritage and a strong local identity.
The responsibility for an experienced multidisciplinary team and a particularly diverse portfolio of projects and infrastructure.
A function benefiting from great autonomy and direct proximity to political decision-making, with excellent working conditions (class 11)
Are you interested in the position?
You can apply by September 18, 2026, only electronically to submit your cover letter and your CV.
Your usual documents (diplomas and certificates) must be grouped into a single PDF file.
For information about the position, Madame Joëlle Bédat, Gouvernance RH, jpidd24123bjm jpit0937jm jpiy26jm