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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.

Broadly, DEM is tasked with leading the City’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from City government operations 40 percent by 2025 (40x25), 50 percent by 2030 (50x30), and 80 percent by 2050 (80x50). Beyond 40x25, 50x30, and 80x50, the City has also made other energy-related commitments, such as pledging to install 100 MW of solar photovoltaic on City buildings by 2025. DEM works closely with our agency partners to help them reduce emissions and improve energy management in their facilities, including providing them with project funding, project delivery vehicles, technical expertise, staff resources, strategic planning support, and data analytics.

The Project Manager, Clean Energy will work within DEM’s Clean Energy Unit, under the guidance of the Operations Manager, Clean Energy, but in extremely close coordination with DEM’s other units.

The Project Manager will be charged with responsibilities including, but not limited to, the following:

- Project Management: Directly manage end-to-end development of clean energy design and construction projects. Ensure proper, timely, and cost-efficient completion of projects, including supervising consultants and contractors and working with other energy personnel at City facilities. Provide project management support across the division.
- Support Asset Management/O&M: Provide support to operations and maintenance of installed solar PV systems, including but not limited to; troubleshooting, drafting scope for O&M contracts, conducting site visits, and vendor management. Provide support towards asset management of installed solar PV system, including but not limited to; analyzing production data to ensure performance meets expectations, engagement with stakeholders on the health of systems and required O&M, and periodic site visits to verify system operation.
- Project Development: With direction from the Clean Energy Operations Manager, support the development of project portfolios, creating solar PV model generation, solar PV and/or other clean energy technology recommendations (specific to facility benefits), report writing on field conditions, report editing, high-level cost estimation, and schedule creation. Working directly with our agency partners in identifying facilities for future solar PV, energy storage, and/or other clean energy projects.
- Conduct Technical Analysis: Conduct technical calculations related to energy usage changes, generation capacity, energy cost savings, and avoided greenhouse gas emissions. Conduct analyses at both a project and program level. Complete performance analyses to ensure anticipated generation capacity and emissions reductions and City’s solar goals are achieved.
- Assist with KPI Reporting: Perform program data collection, tracking, and reporting. Tracking and reporting on key performance indicator metrics and developing summaries and projects of past, current, and future performance as well as installation metrics and milestone tracking and development.


Flexible Work Update:

This position may be eligible for remote work up to two days per week, pursuant to the Remote Work Pilot Program agreed to between the City and DC37.


To Apply:

Please go to cityjobs.nyc.gov or www.nyc.gov/ess for current NYC employees and search for Job ID #607256.

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NOTE: ONLY THOSE CANDIDATES UNDER CONSIDERATION WILL BE CONTACTED.

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.

The preferred candidate will bring the following skills and experience to this position: - A bachelor’s in electrical, mechanical, facilities, environmental engineering, architecture, or related field. - At least six (4) years of technical project management experience, including project planning, scope development, design, and construction management, project close-out, and/or operations and maintenance with three (2) years of direct experience in Solar PV implementation/development, Solar PV operations and maintenance, energy management, facilities management, commissioning, or MEP construction project management. - Experience in the development, installation, and/or design of solar PV projects. - Experience with operations and maintenance of clean energy assets. - Experience with Solar PV data acquisition and performance tracking systems, including database applications, communication protocols, and other applicable information technologies. - Strong familiarity with energy usage, energy cost savings, and avoided greenhouse gas emissions calculation methodologies. - Experience with the following software: Helioscope, PVSyst (Solar PV modeling), Microsoft Excel - Ability to hit the ground running. Direct experience and familiarity in all of the above qualifications are required. Prospective candidates should be able to speak fluently and intelligently about all aspects of project management as it relates to their experience. Solar PV estimates.

This position is also open to qualified persons with a disability who are eligible for the 55-a Program. Please indicate at the top of your resume and cover letter that you would like to be considered for the position through the 55-a Program.

As a prospective employee of the City of New York, you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs. For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Education’s website at https://studentaid.gov/pslf/.

New York City Residency is not required for this position

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.