***IMPORTANT NOTE: Only those currently serving as a permanent or probable permanent Associate Project Manager 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 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 Asset Reliability Specialist acts as the technical lead and oversight agent within the Asset Management Program to define and implant the full range of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) practices needed to optimize asset performance and lifecycle costs. Responsibilities include comparing and assessing maintenance and management practices to determine gaps with industry RCM standards and identifying applicable baseline strategies or RCM practices for implementation. Data analysis and compilation of asset history information will be conducted to provide industry standard analytics, initiate failure analysis and forecasts, and propose and justify modifications of existing practices. The Specialist works closely with Collections and Plant Operations, and the Digital Transformation Directorate to ensure smooth commissioning and acceptance of new or replaced assets, ensure capture and quality of turned over asset data and documents (may include examining engineering drawings for validation), and inform policies and procedures on asset data and activities captured in software solutions, such as an upgraded Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS). This position serves to ensure stakeholder RCM needs are communicated and enfolded into AM or RCM policy, procedures, and standards.


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. acts as the technical lead and oversight agent working closely with the Bureau’s Facility Managers and Reliability Centered Maintenance Engineers (RCMEs) to define and implant the full range of RCM practices into the Asset Management Program for the optimization of asset performance, lifecycle, planning/ scheduling techniques, and repair/replace decisions for cost effective outcomes
2. compare and assess asset maintenance and management practices across facilities to determine gaps and establish baseline strategies and applicable RCM practices for similar asset groups across all asset classes
3. analyze asset history information to provide industry standard analytics, initiate failure analysis or forecast, and recommend appropriate revisions to maintenance or renewal strategies
4. coordinate with Operations/Maintenance, and Engineering/Construction to ensure smooth commissioning and acceptance of new assets, including quality and completeness of: submitted asset data by examining engineering drawings as needed, turnover and acceptance procedures, capture of associated documents (warranties, Lock Out Tag Out), and establishment of initial maintenance strategy
5. analyze and identify best workflows or processes for asset data organization, intake, standardization, utilization, and needs to ensure RCM elements can be fully implemented
6. work with stakeholders to articulate service categories and related objectives, asset failure impact on service goals, asset criticality assignments, and other key performance indicators (KPIs). Also facilitate root cause failure analysis, findings capture, and precipitate proposed mitigation and monitoring solutions
7. compile or direct plan updates for the AM Workplan to submit regulatory mandated annual updates

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.

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