Deputy Director

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 56 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.

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The Department of Citywide Administrative Services’ (DCAS) Division of Energy Management (DEM) serves as the hub for emissions reduction and energy management for the city government portfolio. DEM develops the City’s annual utility energy budget; manages the City’s utility accounts; helps our agency partners identify and pursue energy-saving opportunities at their facilities; leads energy efficiency and distributed generation projects across the City’s portfolio; and helps implement operations and maintenance best practices.

DEM seeks to hire a Deputy Director for the Operations unit. The Deputy Director, Capital Project Implementation, will be responsible for managing and overseeing the delivery of a large portfolio of energy-efficiency projects under the New York Power Authority (NYPA) program. The Deputy Director will support the Executive Director, Capital Project Implementation in the management of this major capital implementation program to ensure the proper and timely implementation of energy efficiency capital projects.

Their primary responsibilities will be to exercise full administrative and technical responsibilities for capital project planning and delivery, and to manage staff and design builders engaged in the design and construction of energy efficiency capital projects at city facilities. With wide latitude for the exercise of independent judgment and initiative, the Deputy Director will be charged with the following:

• Overseeing a diverse portfolio of turnkey energy efficiency capital projects: Provides overarching direction, coaching, and support to program and senior project managers, whose staff conduct and manage planning, design, construction, commissioning, and close-out of capital projects. Sets the course, upholds high standards for performance management efforts, enforces compliance, and drives continuous improvement.
• Overseeing existing project delivery channels and developing new delivery strategies: Provides oversight, direction, and relationship management for DEM’s existing project delivery channels, including design-bid-build and design-build under the ENCORE Program with the New York Power Authority (“NYPA”). Ensure that projects are conceptualized, framed, and selected to the appropriate delivery model, following DEM’s standards, parameters and guidelines. Oversee, review, provide comments, and make recommendations on design packages, RFQs, RFPs, and construction documents submitted by designers and contractors for proposed or underway energy efficiency projects.
• Driving efforts to achieve division-wide financial commitments: Supports the program capital funding allocation strategy and provides feedback on the five- and ten-year capital plans. Responsible for meeting annual targets for capital utilization, including contract registration and funding encumbrances. Monitors and provides an oversight of payment approvals processes, work order changes, and capital fund liquidations.
• Provide technical guidance and quality assurance: Provides support for the development of technical tools, specifications, and guidelines for DEM engineers to utilize in evaluating potential projects, conducting energy analysis, and measuring the impact of DEM investments via measurement and verification (M&V) activities. Implement industry’s best practices to ensure that high efficiency building systems are being designed, procured, constructed, and operated for optimal impact and cost-effectiveness.
• Liaising with agency partners, project delivery partners, and other stakeholders: Forms strong working relationships and establishes open communication with key constituents at partner agencies, including those responsible for energy management, building operators, capital project execution, and budgetary oversight and procurement, as well as agency senior leadership. Through direct intervention and coaching, works to clear roadblocks and create opportunities for deeper and more impactful agency collaboration.
• Managing program data collection, tracking, and reporting: Perform program data collection and tracking required to ensure accurate, on-demand project reporting in a range of areas, including compliance with project schedule, budgets, and scopes, energy savings and avoided emissions; and projects’ contributions towards the City’s goals. Maintain relevant DEM project tracking databases.

To Apply: Only permanent employees in the civil service title of Administrative Energy Conservation Specialist, and comparable titles, or those reachable on the Administrative Energy Conservation Specialist civil service exam are eligible to apply.

Please go to www.nyc.gov/jobs, or www.nyc.gov/ess for current NYC employees, and search for Job ID #806611. No phone calls, faxes or personal inquiries permitted. Only those candidates under consideration will be contacted.

Minimum Qualifications

• A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university in architecture or architectural technology; biology; building science; chemistry; construction management; energy management; engineering or engineering technology; environmental science; facilities management; physics; or a related field, and four (4) years of satisfactory, full-time experience in energy generation or conservation work such as planning, developing, implementing, inspecting, analyzing, testing, and verifying interventions at facilities to generate clean energy or reduce energy usage, one (1) year of which must have been in an administrative, managerial, or executive capacity; or 2) An associate degree or sixty (60) semester credits in any of the disciplines described in “1” above from an accredited college or university, and six (6) years of satisfactory full-time experience as described in “1” above including one (1) year in an administrative, managerial, or executive capacity; or 3) A four (4) year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and eight (8) years of experience as described in “1” above, including one (1) year in an administrative, managerial, or executive capacity. 4) Education and experience which is equivalent to "1," "2," or "3" above. However, all candidates must have one (1) year of experience in an administrative, managerial, or executive capacity as described in “1” above. Education and experience will be credited as follows: a) One (1) year of experience, up to a maximum of four (4) years, will be credited for each year of experience in one or more of the following: i) Journey-level experience in one or more of the skilled building trades; or ii) Full-time experience in the construction, repair, alteration, and/or rehabilitation of buildings in the capacity of general contractor, superintendent of construction, procurement specialist, or evaluator responsible for cost estimation; or iii) Full-time building construction management experience; or iv) Full-time experience in construction field supervision or inspection. b) Education will be credited as follows: i) One (1) year of experience will be credited for every 30 semester credits leading to a baccalaureate degree or associate degree in any of the disciplines described in “1” above, or a related field, up to a maximum of four (4) years. ii) A master’s degree in any of the disciplines described in “1” above, or a related field, will be credited for one (1) year of acceptable experience. iii) A license as a Professional Engineer or Registered Architect issued pursuant to the New York State Education Law will be credited for four (4) years of acceptable experience.

License Requirement: A Motor Vehicle Driver License valid in the State of New York may be required for certain assignments. This license must be maintained for the duration of the assignment.

Special Note: Incumbents may be required to update existing and/or obtain additional professional industry-standard certification(s) and licenses.

Preferred Skills

The preferred candidate will bring the following skills and experience to this position:

• Experience in Electrical, Mechanical, or Environmental Engineering.
• P.E. preferred
• Design-Build certification from the Design Build Institute of America (DBIA) is preferred
• Knowledgeable of design build delivery models
• Experience in the design and construction of energy efficiency retrofits in diverse buildings that vary in age, size, and use
• Minimum of three (3) years’ experience in analyzing building energy efficiency technologies and controls and specifying upgrades to improve the energy performance of building systems
• Strong knowledge of applicable IESNA/ASHRAE design codes, design standards, and specification requirements, with the ability to interpret and apply them to specific project scopes
• Familiarity with the National Electric Code and NYC electrical and energy codes
• Familiarity with energy usage, energy cost savings, and avoided greenhouse gas emissions calculation methodologies
• Skilled at managing program operations and budgets
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Proficient computer skills, including Microsoft applications
• Well-organized, detail-oriented, and capable of managing multiple responsibilities and deadlines simultaneously

Residency Requirement

New York City Residency is not required for this position