Established in 1805, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (the NYC Health Department) is the oldest and largest health department in the country. Our mission is to protect and improve the health of all New Yorkers, in service of a vision of a city in which all New Yorkers can realize their full health potential, regardless of who they are, how old they are, where they are from, or where they live.

As a world-renowned public health agency with a history of building transformative public health programming and infrastructure, innovating in science and scholarship to advance public health knowledge, and responding to urgent public health crises from New York City’s yellow fever outbreak in 1822, to the COVID-19 pandemic we are a hub for public health innovation, expertise, and programs, and services. We serve as the population health strategist, and policy, and planning authority for the City of New York, while also having a vast impact on national and international public policy, including programs and services focused on food and nutrition, anti-tobacco support, chronic disease prevention, HIV/AIDS treatment, family and child health, environmental health, mental health, and racial and social justice work, among others.

Our Agency’s five strategic priorities, building off a recently-completed strategic planning process emerging from the COVID-19 emergency, are:
1) To re-envision how the Health Department prepares for and responds to health emergencies, with a focus on building a “response-ready” organization, with faster decision-making, transparent public communications, and stronger surveillance and bridges to healthcare systems 2) Address and prevent chronic and diet-related disease, including addressing rising rates of childhood obesity and the impact of diabetes, and transforming our food systems to improve nutrition and enhance access to healthy foods
3) Address the second pandemic of mental illness including: reducing overdose deaths, strengthening our youth mental health systems, and supporting people with serious mental illness
4) Reduce black maternal mortality and make New York a model city for women’s health
5) Mobilize against and combat the health impacts of climate change

Our 7,000-plus team members bring extraordinary diversity to the work of public health. True to our value of equity as a foundational element of all of our work, and a critical foundation to achieving population health impact in New York City, the NYC Health Department has been a leader in recognizing and dismantling racism’s impacts on the health of New Yorkers and beyond. In 2021, the NYC Board of Health declared racism as a public health crisis. With commitment to advance anti-racist public health practices that dismantle systems that perpetuate inequitable power, opportunity and access, the NYC Health Department continues to work in and with communities and community organizations to increase their access to health services and decrease avoidable health outcomes.

PROGRAM AND JOB DESCRIPTION:

The Bureau of Operations is responsible for Citywide management of the District Health facilities in all five boroughs which comprise over 300,000 square footage of property. Bureau of Operations provides infrastructure and general business services to the agency, in order to support effective and efficient delivery of public health services.

DUTIES WILL INCLUDE BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:

-Oversee and facilitate the administrative and operational activities of the assigned facilities.

-Coordinate, manage, direct, and evaluate the activities of the District Health facilities in the administration of non-medical components of health care delivery, including equipment maintenance, cleaning, and security of the facility.

-Evaluate maintenance and custodial needs and, monitor performance of maintenance and custodial functions pertaining to all levels of facility upkeep.

-Serve as the agency liaison to DDC and private contractors for capital and non-capital renovation projects in assigned facilities.

-Provide consultative services to building tenants regarding renovations; take leadership in facility management, code compliance of city owned building and leased site, and management of capital projects.

-Establish, refine, and monitor other systematic measures of program effectiveness and efficiency.

-Analyze Federal, State and City legislation as it relates to Article 28, OSHA and PESH guidelines.

-Attend to emergencies as they arise and resolve problematic issues; resolve violations, enforce Local Laws and Article 28 regulations.

-Other duties as mandated by the Regional Manager, Director of Operations and/or the Assistant Commissioner for the Bureau of Operations.

-Utilize Agency's OES, PAYRS and FMS electronic systems to authorize and process payments to vendors for delivery of goods and services rendered.

-Prepare daily facility reports for Regional Managers and ensure corrective actions are taken to resolve.

-Regularly communicates with security teams to ensure a well secured facility.

-Supervise Custodial and clerical staff and liaise with program managers.

-Conduct regular walk-throughs for facility inspections.

-Oversee and follow up on service requests.

-Evaluate maintenance and custodial needs and, monitor performance of maintenance and custodial functions pertaining to all levels of facility upkeep.

-Serve as the agency liaison to DDC.

1. Eight years of full-time experience in construction, repair, alteration and/or rehabilitation of multiple dwellings, commercial, industrial or public buildings in the capacity of general contractor, superintendent of construction, procurement specialist, evaluator responsible for cost estimation, or as a field supervisor or as an inspector, at least 18 months of which must have been in a supervisory or administrative capacity involving responsibility for a large number of buildings; or
2. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to "1" above. Education in an accredited college leading toward a baccalaureate degree in engineering, architecture, engineering technology or a closely related field will be accepted on a year-for-year basis up to a maximum of four years. However, all candidates must possess at least 18 months of the specialized supervisory or administrative experience described in "1" above.

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.