Job Description

IMPORTANT NOTE: Only those currently serving as a permanent or probable permanent Administrative Engineer 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.

Within BWT, the Asset Management (AM) Planning Section is responsible for the development and administration of an Asset Management Program (AMP) that empowers the Bureau’s facilities ability to achieve a State of Good Repair (SOGR) and attain desired service goals consistently and sustainably. The goal is to improve coordination and management of assets and activities by embedding AM practices within all levels of the organization to enable risk based, and data driven decision making, and ultimately realize reduction of risk and ownership costs to DEP’s ratepayers. The AMP will utilize AM principles from ISO 55000 and other industry best practices to optimize activities across the asset lifecycle of operation, maintenance, repair, and renewal. The Section will work with members of BWT’s Lifecycle Management Section, Capital Planning & Budget Section, and Collections and Plant Operations to collaboratively develop Bureau level strategies that align with all stakeholders’ needs. The Section will also work with the Digital Transformation Directorate, including the Asset Management Maintenance Team, to ensure that the AMP is sustained in the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) used by the Bureau to manage its assets into the future.

Job Purpose:

This position will serve as Chief of the Asset Management (AM) Planning Section. The Section Chief will report to the Division Chief of Long Term Planning and Budget within BWT’s Directorate of Planning and Procurement, and manage a team of professionals. To align asset activities with AM standards, the Chief will collaborate with various stakeholders in the Bureau and Agency to develop a comprehensive Asset Management Program (AMP) that contains supporting policies and procedures, and includes designing and strategies to standardize, improve, and integrate existing and new asset information and related activities into an updated CMMS. The Section Chief will also: complete development of the Bureau’s asset hierarchy; facilitate the development of desired level of service standards, lowest life cycle cost and key performance indicators (KPI) for all critical and significant assets; and coordinate improvements to the long term asset replacement process. Utilizing relevant asset data, the Chief will prepare reports to management, regulatory authorities (ex: AM Work Plan, Draft AMP Annual Report), the public, consultants, and other City agencies. The Section Chief plays a broad range of roles, such as: change management agent, strategic planner, roadmap and action plan developer, policy and procedures synthesizer, project manager, and architect of organizing asset data frameworks.

Job Tasks/Duties:

Selected candidate will

1. Develop BWT’s AM Program implementation roadmap.

2. Produce and administer a comprehensive and accepted Strategic Asset Management Plan (SAMP).

3. Engage and collaborate with stakeholders in the Bureau, agency, or externally to satisfy AM needs and improve business processes, such as identification of industry best practices, maintenance or replacement strategies, and risk assessment process on asset health.

4. Compile plans and updates for the AM Workplan or the AMP Annual Report as per regulatory requirements.

5. Update and maintain the Bureau’s AM Standards and Business Policies document.

6. Design and produce executable strategies to standardize, improve, and migrate existing data on assets and related activities to an updated Computerized Maintenance Management System.

7. Direct the development of asset data organizing principles to align the data and technology integration process and improve connectivity between relevant datasets.

8. Determine or assess service levels and related objectives, asset failure impact on service goals, asset criticality assignments, and other metrics for determining and forecasting asset conditions.

9. Lead the development of key performance indicators (KPIs) around asset activities and performance.

10. Provide technical and administrative direction to a team of professional staff for the advancement of BWT’s AM maturity.

Qualifications

1. A valid New York State License as a Professional Engineer and six (6) years of full-time satisfactory experience in chemical engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering, environmental engineering, mechanical engineering, or plan examining work, at least two (2) years of which must have been in an executive, managerial, or administrative capacity.

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.