Job Description

***IMPORTANT NOTE: Only those currently serving as a permanent Associate Project Manager will be considered***

The NYC Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) enriches the environment and protects public health for all New Yorkers by providing 1.1 billion gallons of high-quality drinking water, managing wastewater and stormwater, 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’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.

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 Bureau of Wastewater Treatment is responsible for the operation and maintenance of all facilities related to the treatment of sewage, including wastewater treatment plants, collections facilities (pumping stations, combined sewer overflow retention facilities, regulators, tide gates), wastewater laboratories, harbor vessels and sludge dewatering facilities. The Collections Operations Division is responsible for the operation, maintenance and repair of 96 wastewater pumping stations, over 500 combined sewer regulators and tide gates, 160 miles of intercepting sewers, three sludge force mains, three CSO Retention Facilities, several mechanical screening facilities, two netting facilities, three aeration facilities and vactor operations located throughout the City.

The Collections Specialist (CS) will have a combined role of serving to manage the Collections SCADA functionality and perform a new role of program management, maintenance management and engineering services for Collections Facilities Operations.

Under direction, with great latitude for the exercise of independent judgment or action, the selected candidate responsibilities include:

The Collections Specialist will lead the bureau’s efforts in the following initiatives:

- Work closely with BWT engineering, SCADA maintenance contractors, DEP’s BIT (Business Information Technology) bureau, operations chiefs, and supervisors to plan maintenance of the Citywide Collections Facilities SCADA system. (CCFISS).
- Perform continuous improvement activities to monitor and optimize maintenance of assets (including root cause analysis).
- Perform complex work involving collections systems: asset loading, Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) asset structuring, PM/PdM implementation, project management, program design, economic analysis, reliability centered maintenance practices, and review of design and contract documents.
- Organize and manage information and data of existing assets. Participate in committees and workshops to implement a new CMMS system. Manage collection, analysis, and reporting of various data streams. Provide information on physical condition, asset performance and reliability of assets. Identify condition monitoring frequency and operational systems data required to be captured to best provide predictive failure information within CMMS. Utilize condition monitoring and predictive maintenance methodologies.
- Diagnose and analyze SCADA and maintenance data, including condition monitoring data to provide analytics to reduce lifecycle costs, optimize equipment life, reliability and to achieve equipment performance goals. The CS will manage historian data and develop new trends and reports utilizing SCADA historian data.
- Assist with commissioning and acceptance of new assets at Collection facilities.
- Document new assets, locations, and vendor information and input into the new CMMS.
- Prepare periodic updates and annual reports to the Operations Division Chief and other maintenance program stakeholders utilizing Key Performance Indicators.
- Participate in project alternative analysis using Life-cycle costs evaluations for capital projects, including asset replacement decision justifications. Ensure that ongoing maintenance costs are properly captured within CMMS.
- Participate with project design teams to promote “Reliability Design” concepts; and in coordination with Operation Chiefs, develop the initial recommended maintenance strategy for newly designed and acquired assets.
- Provide input to major equipment purchases - routine replacements and Capital Projects.

The CS will provide technical lead responsibilities for the development and implementation of a Reliability Centered Maintenance Program through use of integrated data systems for Collection Facilities Operations.

The CS position utilizes data and strategic planning to affect timing of equipment overhauls and replacements, technology enhancements, maintenance planning, and energy conservation, while ensuring reliable performance of Collections at the expected level of service.

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.