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Senior Project Manager, Capital Project Implementation

City of New York

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DCAS's mission is to make city government work for all New Yorkers. From managing New York City’s most iconic courthouses and municipal buildings, to purchasing over $1 billion annually in goods and services for more than 80 City agencies what we do ensures that all agencies can deliver on their mission. Our reach touches every facet of city government and is instrumental to the successful day-to-day operations of the City of New York.

Our commitment to equity, effectiveness, and sustainability guides our work providing City agencies with the critical resources and support needed to succeed, including:

  • Recruiting, hiring, and training City employees.
  • Managing 55 public buildings.
  • Acquiring, selling, and leasing City property.
  • Purchasing over $1 billion in goods and services for City agencies.
  • Overseeing the greenest municipal vehicle fleet in the country.
  • Leading the City's efforts to reduce carbon emissions from government operations.

When you work at DCAS, you're not just working for one agency, but in service of them all. It's an opportunity to provide impactful support, quality customer service, and help protect the future of New York City for generations to come. Visit our website at nyc.gov/dcas to learn more about the work we do.

DCAS’s Division of Energy Management (DEM) leads the City’s efforts to reduce carbon emissions from government operations. Our goals are to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 40 percent by 2025 (40x25), 50 percent by 2030 (50x30), and 80 percent by 2050 (80x50). Additionally, DEM is tasked with completing work related to the City’s other energy-related commitments, such as pledging to install 100 MW of solar photovoltaics on City buildings by 2025. DEM works toward achieving the above goals by managing the City’s utility accounts, developing the City’s annual utility energy budget; helping our agency partners identify and pursue energy-saving opportunities at their facilities; leading energy efficiency and distributed generation projects across the City’s portfolio; and helping implement operations and maintenance best practices.

The Capital Project Implementation Team within the Operations Unit is responsible for overseeing the delivery of energy efficiency retrofit projects funded with capital dollars within City facilities. These projects range from those involving single energy conservation measures to Deep Energy Retrofits that involve comprehensive building upgrades that are intended to achieve on-site energy usage reductions of greater than 50 percent. Members of the Capital Project Implementation (CPI) Team provide energy engineering and project management expertise throughout the lifecycle of capital project implementation, including project scoping, design, construction, commissioning, and close-out.

The Senior Project Manager, Capital Project Implementation will work within DEM’s Operations Unit. They will be charged with the following specific responsibilities:

1. Manage a large energy capital project portfolio: Oversees a large portfolio of energy efficiency capital projects to ensure proper, timely, and cost-efficient completion. Provides technical and administrative support to other DEM and agency staff on projects, gives ongoing updates to DEM management, and identifies major risks and project delivery issues.

2. Provide technical guidance on energy capital projects: Performs engineering calculations and energy modeling to verify the reasonableness and accuracy of estimated energy usage reductions, energy cost savings, and avoided emissions for proposed energy efficiency projects. Reviews, provide comments, and make recommendations on design packages submitted by consultants for proposed energy efficiency projects.

3. Oversee energy capital project budgeting, procurement, and administrative functions: Manages and ensures completion of administrative tasks required for successful energy efficiency project delivery, including approving Certificate to Proceed packages, managing project registrations, authorizing change orders, and making payment requests.

4. Perform site visits throughout the project implementation process and liaise with agency partners, consultants, and contractors during implementation: Conducts field visits to assess energy usage reduction opportunities at City buildings, refine proposed scopes of work, ensure project compliance with the scope and schedule set forth in contract documents, and perform measurement and verification activities. As designated, represents DEM in meetings with different City agencies, consultants, and contractors involved in energy efficiency project implementation.

5. Manage program data collection, tracking, and reporting: Oversees data collection and tracking required to ensure accurate, on-demand project reporting in a range of areas, including projects’ compliance with schedules, budgets, and scopes; measurement and verification of projects’ energy savings and avoided emissions; and projects’ contributions towards the City’s goals. Maintains relevant DEM project tracking systems.

Flexible Work Update:

This position may be eligible for remote work up to two days per week, pursuant to the Remote Work Pilot Program agreed to between the City and DC37.

To Apply:

Only those permanent in the Associate Project Manager title, or reachable via an open competitive list call are eligible to apply.

Please go to cityjobs.nyc.gov or www.nyc.gov/ess for current NYC employees and search for Job ID #601080.

NO PHONE CALLS, FAXES OR PERSONAL INQUIRIES PERMITTED.

NOTE: ONLY THOSE CANDIDATES UNDER CONSIDERATION WILL BE CONTACTED.

Qualifications

Qualification Requirements

One year of full-time satisfactory experience in supervising employees performing project management work, such as planning, administering, managing, coordinating, or expediting, on engineering and/or architectural and/or landscape architectural projects, or supervising a construction project with a value of $1,000,000 or more, and either:

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university in engineering, engineering technology, architecture, architectural technology, landscape architecture, business administration, or public administration, and one year of full-time satisfactory experience in project management work, such as planning, administering, managing, coordinating, or expediting, for engineering and/or architectural and/or landscape architectural projects; or

2. A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and five years of experience as described in “1” above; or

3. A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent plus any combination of college or university education and/or experience described in “1” above to make up the equivalent of five years of education and experience. One year of experience credit will be given for (a) each 30 semester credits of college or university education leading to a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in engineering, engineering technology, architecture, architectural technology, landscape architecture, business administration or public administration; (b)

a Masters degree from an accredited college or university in one of the disciplines described in “1” above; or (c) a valid New York State license as a Professional Engineer, Registered Architect, or Registered Landscape Architect.

Experience which is primarily of a design nature is not acceptable towards meeting the qualification requirements.

4. In addition to meeting the qualification requirements for Assignment Level I, candidates must have at least one additional year of experience as described in "1" above in a supervisory capacity or have served for at least one year as a project manager for a large and/or complex construction project.

5. In addition to meeting the qualification requirements for Assignment Level I, candidates must have at least two additional years of experience as described in "1" above in a supervisory capacity or have served for at least two additional years as a project manager for a large and/or complex construction project.

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.

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