Job Description

IMPORTANT NOTE: Only those currently serving as a permanent Associate Project Manager 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.

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

1. design and implement strategies to standardize, improve, and migrate existing data on assets and related activities to an updated Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)

2. reconciliate various data sources to establish and validate as a master data source

3. examine and analyze data and systems to identify areas of improvement and create data models

4. engage with data owners to validate and produce executable data cleanup strategies that assures data or system quality

5. act as a data architect to create data models that will serve to align data and technology integration process

6. 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

7. compile or direct plan updates for the AM Workplan to submit regulatory mandated annual updates

8. develop and administer a comprehensive and accepted SAMP

9. assist in the creation or maintenance of CMMS standards such as asset ID assignment

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.