Jersey City has established a Department of Infrastructure responsible for the design, planning, and implementation of the critical infrastructure in the city, including public spaces, parks, transit, streets, municipal buildings, and other facilities for use by the public.
Barkha Patel, the director of the department, is looking for staff to fill many of the vacant positions in the department. Among the positions needing to be filled are traffic engineer, landscape architect, environmental engineer, and chief innovation officer. Many of such positions will require the need for business card printing once they are filled.
Patel oversees the divisions of Sustainability, Traffic Engineering, Architecture and Engineering, and the Office of Innovation. Patel started serving Jersey City in 2016 as a transportation planner in the Division of Planning and assumed the role of assistant business administrator in 2021.
Kimberly Wallace-Scalcione, spokesperson for the departments, said that the goal is to fill these positions with people who are subject matter experts, for example, those who are licensed planners or engineers. Wallace-Scalcione explained that there is a new position of transportation planner which will focus on optimizing the supply of parking spaces in the city and on curbside management to better utilize the space along curbs and allocate space strategically for public use, among other projects carried out in the city.
