In a news release, Hays City Manager Toby Dougherty this week announced the appointment of Nicholas Willis as the interim assistant director of utilities for the city of Hays. He will assume his duties March 3.

Willis has been employed with the city of Hays since 2011. He is currently the stormwater/water conservation superintendent. Before his employment with the city, Willis served as a water division engineer with the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality.

Willis received his bachelor’s degree in biological systems engineering from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and master’s degree in agro-ecology from Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Aas, Norway.