Director of Facility/ Regional Long-Term Planning

City of New York • Queens, NY

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About The Position

The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) protects public health for all New Yorkers by providing high-quality drinking water, managing wastewater and stormwater, 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. DEPs water supply system is comprised of 19 reservoirs and 3 controlled lakes spread throughout the system’s 2,000 square mile watershed that extends 125 miles north and west of the City. The Bureau or Wastewater Treatment (BWT) Is responsible for the operation and maintenance of all facilities related to the pumping and treatment of sewage within the City’s five boroughs. This includes 14 wastewater treatment plants, 6 sludge dewatering facilities, collections facilities (pumping stations, combined sewer overflow retention facilities, regulators, tide gates, etc.), wastewater laboratories, and harbor vessels. BWT is creating a new Planning Directorate and is seeking to hire a Director of Planning. The Director will report to the Assistant Commissioner of Planning and Compliance and will be responsible for developing the new Planning Directorate for the Bureau. The Planning Directorate is anticipated to include lifecycle management, master planning, and regional/system planning efforts with the goal of developing and implementing strategies to ensure that the Bureau’s short and long-term needs are properly identified. Planning efforts are expected to align with Bureau and Agency goals, long-term regulatory requirements, and various budget strategies. The successful candidate will serve on the Bureau’s Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and will be a self-motivated individual with advanced communication skills, a solid working knowledge of program management procedures, planning activities and methods, and engineering practices, to facilitate successful planning and stakeholder buy-in for long-term infrastructure plans.

Requirements

• IMPORTANT NOTE: Only those currently serving as a permanent or probable permanent, i.e. probationary, Administrative Engineer will be considered.
• A valid New York State License as a Professional Engineer and six (6) years of full-time satisfactory experience in chemical engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering, environmental engineering, mechanical engineering, or plan examining work, at least two (2) years of which must have been in an executive, managerial, or administrative capacity.

Responsibilities

• Providing leadership and management for planning activities. Develop Directorate goals, organizational structure, resource requirements, and schedules.
• Facilitating coordination efforts with operations, operations support, and other key stakeholders to ensure facility stabilization needs are properly identified, future regulatory concerns are addressed, and all appropriate stakeholders buy-in is obtained.
• Developing and provide data for future project needs determined through planning activities to ensure work is advanced. Interface with financial offices, both within and outside the Agency as appropriate, and communicate funding requirements to ensure capital budget needs are identified.
• Ensuring resources for planning and analysis are in place in the areas of need. In addition to developing the overall organization, additional resources may include consultant contracts for planning support, investigations, and studies.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees