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City of New York Asset Management Program Planner in New York, New York
Job Description
IMPORTANT NOTE: Only those currently serving as a permanent Computer Specialist (Software) will be considered.
The NYC Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) protects public health and the environment by supplying clean drinking water, collecting and treating wastewater, and reducing air, noise, and hazardous materials pollution. DEP is the largest combined municipal water and wastewater utility in the country, with nearly 6,000 employees. DEP delivers more than 1.1 billion gallons per day of the highest quality drinking water to 8.5 million NYC residents and more than 1 million people in Upstate New York, and has a wastewater conveyance and treatment system capable of processing over 1.3 billion gallons of wastewater per day to protect the environment and the city’s surrounding waterways.
The Bureau of Wastewater Treatment (BWT) is responsible for the operation and maintenance of all facilities related to the treatment of sewage within the five boroughs of the City. This includes 14
wastewater treatment plants, sludge dewatering facilities, collections facilities (pumping stations, combined sewer overflow retention facilities, regulators, tide gates, etc.), wastewater laboratories and harbor vessels.
Job Purpose:
The posted position resides within the Asset Management Planning Section, which is responsible for developing and administering a comprehensive Asset Management Program (AMP) for the Bureau’s facilities and assets to achieve service goals. The Program is to utilize AM principles and systems to optimize operations, maintenance, repair, and replacement of BWT’s assets to reduce the risk and cost of ownership to DEP’s ratepayers. The AMP will ultimately drive the Bureau towards a state of good repair, maximize the value of our assets, and support BWT’s vision of becoming an industry leader.
The AMP Planner will assess existing asset maintenance and management practices against AM standards (ISO 55000) to assist in the development an AMP maturation roadmap. Resulting analyses, plans, and guides are to be captured and updated in documents such as a mandated AM Workplan submitted to regulators, BWT’s AM Standards and Business Policies, and a comprehensive Strategic Asset Management Plan (SAMP). Other duties include the design of AM data models, advanced AM practices and systems to align with BWT’s digital transformation initiative, with tasks including the identification or production of data integration strategies for migration to updated technological systems.
Job Tasks/Duties:
Under administrative direction, selected candidate will
design and implement strategies to standardize, improve, and migrate existing data on assets and related activities to an updated Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
reconciliate various data sources to establish and validate as a master data source
examine and analyze data and systems to identify areas of improvement and create data models
engage with data owners to validate and produce executable data cleanup strategies that assures data or system quality
act as a data architect to create data models that will serve to align data and technology integration process
establish or reassess service levels and related objectives, asset failure impact on service goals, asset criticality assignments, and other key performance indicators (KPIs) for determining and forecasting asset conditions
compile or direct plan updates for the AM Workplan to submit regulatory mandated annual updates
develop and administer a comprehensive and accepted SAMP
assist in the creation or maintenance of CMMS standards such as asset ID assignment
Qualifications
(1) A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college, including or supplemented by twenty-four (24) semester credits in computer science or a related computer field and two (2) years of satisfactory full-time software experience in designing, programming, debugging, maintaining, implementing, and enhancing computer software applications, systems programming, systems analysis and design, data communication software, or database design and programming, including one year in a project leader capacity or as a major contributor on a complex project; or
(2) A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and six (6) years of full-time satisfactory software experience as described in “1" above, including one year in a project leader capacity or as a major contributor on a complex project; or
(3) A satisfactory combination of education and experience that is equivalent to (1) or (2) above. College education may be substituted for up to two years of the required experience in (2) above on the basis that sixty (60) semester credits from an accredited college is equated to one year of experience. A masters degree in computer science or a related computer field may be substituted for one year of the required experience in (1) or (2) above. However, all candidates must have a four year high school diploma or its educational equivalent, plus at least one (1) year of satisfactory full-time software experience in a project leader capacity or as a major contributor on a complex project.
NOTE: In order to have your experience accepted as Project Leader or Major Contributor experience, you must explain in detail how your experience qualifies you as a project leader or as a major contributor. Experience in computer operations, technical support, quality assurance (QA), hardware installation, help desk, or as an end user will not be accepted for meeting the minimum qualification
requirements.
Special Note
To be eligible for placement in Assignment Level IV, in addition to the Qualification Requirements stated above, individuals must have one year of satisfactory experience in a project leader capacity or as a major contributor on a complex project in data administration, database management systems, operating systems, data communications systems, capacity planning, and/or on-line applications programming.
Additional Information
The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.