Job Description

The NYC Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) provides more than a billion gallons of high-quality drinking water per day to all residents in the City and in four upstate counties. DEP also works to reduce 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's water supply system is comprised of 19 reservoirs and 3 controlled lakes throughout the system’s 2,000 square mile watershed that extends 125 miles north and west of the City. Its complex network also includes 6,000 miles of water mains, tunnels and aqueducts.

DEP’s Bureau of Engineering Design & Construction (BEDC) portfolio currently has $23Bil. of active projects in various stages of initiation, design and construction. The projects BEDC delivers allow DEP as a whole to continue to operate and maintain a world class water supply system. The Bureau is responsible for translating the environmental policies, programs and needs of the City into specific projects and goals. The Office of the Deputy Commissioner is responsible for the direction of all activities of the Bureau, overseeing senior level managers whose in-house staff and consultants manage 200+ projects/programs, such as: construction of the Rondout-West Branch Bypass and Kensico-Eastview Connection tunnels; construction of City Water Tunnel No. 3 shafts; upgrade/expansion of sewage wastewater resource recovery facilities (14) and pump stations (96); and construction/upgrade of various upstate watershed treatment plants, dams, roads, bridges, and facilities.

BEDC seeks to hire an Administrative Construction Project Manager M3 located at our headquarters in Queens, NY. Under administrative direction, reporting directly to the Deputy Commissioner, with wide latitude for the exercise of independent judgment, the selected candidate will serve as the Executive Program Manager. S/he will coordinate, plan and develop strategies to advance major capital design and construction projects/programs. The Executive Program Manager is part of the Bureau’s senior staff team and is also expected to lead efforts on Bureau/agency initiatives focusing on process and policy.

Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Working with Bureau senior staff to develop and implement strategies to improve Bureau services; supporting the development and implementation of business plans, strategic plans, and updating as required; attending Deputy Commissioner level meetings and following up on action items.

• Overseeing executive-level projects that at times require cross-functional collaboration with other DEP Bureaus, City, State and/or Federal agencies; and communicating on behalf of the Deputy Commissioner.

• Collaborating with Bureau senior leadership to enhance programmatic governance processes and reporting to ensure major project/program issues are escalated to meet project schedules and agency goals.

• Providing executive support to BEDC’s Design-Build project delivery teams.

• Identifying priorities and potential project roadblocks, including major improvements or modifications in ongoing agency and Bureau missions; briefing the Deputy Commissioner periodically on work progress and key projects.

• Providing complex analysis to articulate and report on the Bureau’s major programs and policies; reporting on program efficiency and environmental impacts.

• Enhancing the Bureau’s reporting metrics; monitoring BEDC programs and projects.

• Establishing communication strategies and implementing communication programs for BEDC priorities; interfacing with DEP Communication and media teams on all BEDC-related issues and relevant DEP and external communication needs and issues.

• Liaising with all Bureau directorates, oversight /operational teams, and Commissioner’s Office as needed.

Qualifications

At least six years of full-time satisfactory experience in construction management work on capital projects, each one of which must have had a dollar value of at least $15,000, at least eighteen months of which must have been in a managerial or consultative capacity in an organization responsible for the management of construction; and a combination of the following, sufficient to equal a total of ten years of education and experience:

a. Full-time satisfactory experience in construction inspection on capital projects, each one of which must have had a dollar value of at least $15,000. One year of acceptable experience will be credited for each year of construction inspection experience up to a maximum of four years.

b. Full-time satisfactory experience in building construction as a journeyperson in one or more of the skilled building construction trades. One year of acceptable experience will be credited for each year of journeyperson experience up to a maximum of four years.

c. Education in an accredited college leading to a bachelor's degree in architecture, landscape architecture, or air pollution control, chemical, civil including structural and bridge design, electrical, mechanical, or sanitary engineering will be credited on the basis of 30 credits for one year of acceptable experience up to a maximum of four years.

A New York State license as a professional engineer or registered architect or a license as a professional engineer or registered architect from a state that has reciprocity with New York State may be substituted for the four years of education and experience described in "a", "b" and "c" above. However, all candidates must have at least six years of experience in construction management work described above, including at least eighteen months in a managerial or consultative capacity in an organization responsible for the management of construction.

License Requirements

Possession of a Motor Vehicle Driver License valid in the State of New York. Employees must maintain the license during their employment.

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.