Energy Project Manager

The Department of Sanitation (DSNY) keeps New York City clean, safe, and healthy by collecting, recycling, and disposing of waste, cleaning streets, attacking the scourge of illegal dumping, and clearing snow and ice. The Department operates 59 district garages and manages a fleet of more than 2,000 rear-loading collection trucks, 450 mechanical brooms, 705 salt spreaders, and several dozen bike lane operations machines. Under the Adams Administration, the Department is aggressively cleaning more parts of the City than ever before, including over 1,000 long-ignored areas spread across every neighborhood. With the highest wintertime uniformed headcount in 20 years, DSNY is more equipped than ever to remove snow and ice from the approximately 19,000 lane-miles of City streets.

The NYC Department of Sanitation is the world’s largest sanitation department. DSNY collects more than 10,500 tons of residential and institutional garbage and 1,760 tons of recyclables each day. While efficiently managing solid waste and clearing litter or snow from 6,300 miles of streets, the Department is also a leader in environmentalism committing to sending zero waste to landfills.

Under general supervision, the energy project manager will coordinate the administrative, design, and implementation of energy projects for large facilities. Will work with the energy team to help identify energy conservation measures and ensure that DSNY is on a path to meet the City’s 50×30 emission reduction goal, including compliance with agency-specific targets set as part of LL97, LL87 (Benchmarking), and LL84 (Energy Audits & Retro-commissioning). Assist the agency energy management program in optimizing buildings, and serve as a liaison with project shareholders, contractors, and capital teams. Will work with the DCAS Division of Energy Management team to manage funding and contracting, ensuring agency access to appropriate project implementation. The energy project manager will be responsible for budget modification forms, invoice submission, and expense tracking, and will support agency utility account and billing management, and real-time metering installations. Collaborates with agency contracting team to support the development and better use of existing contracts and leverage emerging procurement resources for energy work. For project development, the energy project manager will contribute to expense and capital project planning for identifying and pursuing energy project opportunities, including work that can be progressed through capital and expense grant funding programs. Will advocate the adoption of large-scale clean energy and innovative technology projects across the agency portfolio. For project implementation, will manage a large portfolio of energy efficiency expense and capital projects to ensure compliant, timely, and cost-efficient completion. Will provide technical and administrative oversight to shareholders and agency staff on ongoing energy projects.

Minimum Qualifications

1.A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college in engineering, engineering technology, architecture, landscape architecture, architectural technology, construction, construction management, construction technology, sustainable design, urban planning, urban studies, city planning, transportation planning, 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 the experience and/or college education as described in “1” above to make up the equivalent of five years of education and experience. One year of credit will be given for each 30 semester credits of college education leading to a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college in engineering, engineering technology, architecture, landscape architecture, architectural technology, construction, construction management, construction technology, sustainable design, urban planning, urban studies, city planning, transportation planning, business administration, or public administration.

Preferred Skills

License Requirement: For assignment to certain positions, candidates must possess a motor vehicle driver’s license valid in the State of New York. The license must be maintained for the duration of employment in such a position. ONLY CANDIDATES WHO ARE CURRENTLY SERVING AS A PROJECT MANAGER IN A SIMILAR CIVIL SERVICE TITLE WILL BE CONSIDERED FOR AN INTERVIEW.
55a Program

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.
Public Service Loan Forgiveness

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/.
Residency Requirement

New York City residency is generally required within 90 days of appointment. However, City Employees in certain titles who have worked for the City for 2 continuous years may also be eligible to reside in Nassau, Suffolk, Putnam, Westchester, Rockland, or Orange County. To determine if the residency requirement applies to you, please discuss with the agency representative at the time of interview.
Additional Information

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.