Job Description

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 storm water, 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 Division of Distribution Operations role in the Bureau of Water and Sewer Operations is to ensure that potable water is delivered at the appropriate pressure and volume to consumers throughout the five boroughs. Within the Agency, distribution staff work closely with Bureau Field Operations, BWS Water Quality and BEDC providing engineering direction. The Distribution Section is responsible for the initiation of capital projects needed to maintain and improve the distribution system; in that role, engineers work closely with The BWSO Capital Planning Division. Outside the Agency, Distribution staff maintains close working relationships with other NYC Agencies, MTA, Con Edison and many other outside interest s whose activities affect water supply infrastructure. Plan review, advising on changes due to field conditions during construction and coordinating trunk main shutdowns play a large role in the sections activities. Distribution is responsible for the operation, maintenance and repair of valves and pressure regulators associated with the trunk main network and for response to large water main breaks, fires and other emergencies. The section also contains the Cross Connection Control and Hydraulic Flow Test Units.

Working for the Bureau of Water and Sewer Operations within the Division of Distribution Operations/Trunk Main Maintenance, the selected candidates will supervise Machinist’s Helpers and work with Construction Laborers in the inspection, maintenance, overhaul and repair of water supply equipment including regulators, valves, meters, gauges, gears and other operating infrastructure, located in chambers, throughout the five boroughs. The incumbents will be required to prepare daily reports, job orders, and equipment evaluations, familiarize themselves with machine shop equipment maintenance and operations, as well as hand tools. The candidates will perform and supervise work in both permit and non-permit required confined spaces; adhere to all Department EH&S policies; and operate a motor vehicle and other power equipment as necessary to perform the job.

**Candidates selected to fill a Machinist position from this posting will be appointed on a provisional basis. As a provisional employee, you will be required to take and pass the next Machinist civil service examination and be given a list number by the NYC Department of Citywide Administrative Services in order to be considered for probable permanent employment in this title. Anyone who does not take and pass this examination, or who is not reached on the established list, will be terminated as a provisional Machinist.

Qualifications

1. Five years of full-time satisfactory experience as a machinist; or

2. At least two and one-half years of full-time satisfactory experience as a machinist plus sufficient full-time experience as a machinist helper or an apprentice machinist, or training of a relevant nature acquired in an approved trade, technical or vocational high school to make up the equivalent of five years of the required experience. Six months of acceptable experience will be credited for each year of helper or apprentice experience or approved relevant training acquired in an approved trade, technical or vocational high school, up to a maximum of two and one-half years.