Sunshine Trakas

Sunshine Trakas serves as Director of Public Works for Greenwood County, South Carolina, overseeing the planning, procurement, and execution of critical infrastructure projects that sustain public safety and operational efficiency. In this leadership role, she directs the agency’s acquisition strategy for capital improvements in transportation and solid waste management, ensuring compliance with state and federal regulations while aligning expenditures with long-term sustainability goals. Her procurement portfolio primarily encompasses construction services and environmental infrastructure contracts, requiring rigorous project oversight, competitive bidding processes, and performance-based contract management. Trakas maintains a procurement environment grounded in open competition, with no formal set-aside preferences applied to her acquisitions. She engages with a broad spectrum of qualified contractors—ranging from large-scale civil engineering firms to local specialty vendors—through transparent, full-and-fair competition procedures. Her working relationships emphasize accountability, timely delivery, and adherence to technical specifications, fostering a vendor ecosystem that prioritizes reliability and regulatory compliance over socioeconomic categorization. Her contracting focus is concentrated in two core NAICS categories: 562212 (Solid Waste Landfill) and 237310 (Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction). She regularly procures services related to landfill operations, waste containment systems, road resurfacing, drainage improvements, and bridge rehabilitation. Her technical expertise lies in managing complex civil works projects that demand precision in geotechnical standards, environmental permitting, and construction phasing, ensuring infrastructure meets both current demands and future resilience benchmarks. Trakas’s approach reflects a mission-driven commitment to public service, with procurement decisions rooted in engineering integrity, regulatory adherence, and community impact. She does not prioritize socioeconomic set-asides, instead emphasizing performance, capacity, and compliance as the primary criteria for contractor selection across all infrastructure initiatives.