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 and physical assets 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 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:
The AMP Planner will assist in the development and execution of the Bureau’s AM Program roadmap or Strategic Asset Management Plan (SAMP) by incorporating Best Management Practices of Asset Management. The Planner will compile and analyze asset’s operational and engineering information to identify business process or standards improvements, support/inform AM policies and procedures development, or provide information for regulatory AM reporting requirements, such as the AM Workplan or AMP Draft Annual Report. This position works with Collections and Plant Operations and the Asset Management Maintenance Team to develop strategies for the standardization and improvement of asset data capture and migration process to an upgraded CMMS. This entails identifying quality assurance practices or standards for information on asset profile and related life cycle activities. This may involve consulting engineering drawings to validate or facilitate asset ID assignment and establish appropriate profile data for newly replaced assets. In coordination with stakeholders, the Planner may also work on developing a programmatic way to determine asset criticality definition, asset condition, asset risk, appropriate mitigation strategies, and root cause failure analyses.


Job Tasks/Duties:
Under direction of the Asset Management Planning Section Chief, with latitude for the exercise of independent judgement, the selected candidate will
1. assist in the development and administration of an Asset Management Program, including an accepted Strategic Asset Management Plan (SAMP), an associated roadmap, and the Asset Management Standards and Business Policies document
2. design and implement strategies to standardize/improve the capture and migration process of asset profile and related activities information to an updated Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
3. assess the quality of standards and practices for gathering information on asset profile and life cycle activities, including the validation or assignment of asset IDs and profile data of newly replaced assets
4. analyze data, systems, business practices and standards to identify business process improvements, support/inform AM policies and procedures development, and for regulatory AM reporting requirements
5. engage with stakeholders to validate asset profile information and produce executable cleanup strategies that assures data and system quality
6. act as an architect to facilitate a framework connecting asset information across industrial operation and design groups, and aligns with the overall information and technology integration process
7. work with stakeholders to reassess and establish 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

1. For Assignment Level I (only physical, biological and environmental sciences and public health) A master's degree from an accredited college or university with a specialization in an appropriate field of physical, biological or environmental science or in public health.
To be appointed to Assignment Level II and above, candidates must have:
1. A doctorate degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical, biological, environmental or social science and one year of full-time experience in a responsible supervisory, administrative or research capacity in the appropriate field of specialization; or
2. A master's degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical, biological, environmental or social science and three years of responsible full-time research experience in the appropriate field of specialization; or
3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to "1" or "2" above. However, all candidates must have at least a master's degree in an appropriate field of specialization and at least two years of experience described in "2" above. Two years as a City Research Scientist Level I can be substituted for the experience required in "1" and "2" above.

NOTE:
Probationary Period
Appointments to this position are subject to a minimum probationary period of one year.

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.