Job Description

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 primary responsibilities will include the following:

• Inspects buildings, structures, and grounds at regular intervals to ascertain rehabilitation/maintenance needs with regard to construction, equipment, and materials. Determines the work required and method(s) to be utilized. Recommends priorities. Monitors work in progress by staff and/or contractors. Reports all hazardous conditions. In the Department of Housing Preservation and Development authorizes the issuance of repair jobs to vendors. Identifies problems in construction and seeks their resolution. Prepares shop orders, the scope of work, routine specifications, and cost estimates. Monitors contractors' day-to-day operations. Reviews and/or inspects contractors' work and contract administration for compliance with plans and contract specifications, prevailing wage requirements, site safety requirements, insurance requirements, and the City's vendor outreach programs; ensure contractors' acquisition of required permits and approvals.

• Accepts contractors' submissions of subcontractors for approval and ensures agency's review. Formally evaluates the performance of contractors, reporting on discrepancies and/or unsatisfactory performance. When appropriate, issues field memoranda to contractors to enforce contract compliance issues; may order contractors to stop work due to site conditions or non-compliance with contracts; make recommendations regarding the necessity for liquidated damages and other contract enforcement mechanisms, including default.

• Ensures the formulation of punch lists and contractors' completion of punch list items; monitors time expenditures and overtime; reviews and recommends approval of contractors' requests for time extensions. Reviews for approval materials used by contractors.

• Approves contractors' coordination of schedules, and/or coordinates scheduling.

• Coordinates work of various contractors, trades, agencies, and entities to expedite the work and minimize interference with the building's functioning. Schedules and runs job meetings. Resolves differences between inspectors and contractors/vendors. Works with the architect or engineer of record regarding change orders, interpretation of documents, shop drawing approvals, and other architectural and engineering-related issues. Recommends issuance of change orders to comply with changing field conditions or specification/drawing errors and/or omissions; upon approval of the recommendation, prepares change orders. Reviews and approves other contract changes in accordance with citywide procedures.

• Reviews and approves contractors' payments and requisitions submitted by contractors. Maintains contract files and written records of job history, type, responsibility, and progress. Uses computers to maintain files and generate reports, correspondence, and other paperwork.

• Investigates and advises the agency concerning contract disputes, and appeals on the rejection of equipment, materials, or workmanship; compiles contract and project documentation bearing on these dispute claims.

• Acts as liaison with the community and members of the public. Prepares reports and correspondence for approval in dealings with contractors and the public, etc. In the event of any unlawful activity on the construction site, acts as the City's representative in the filing of complaints with the Police Department or other agencies.

• Provides technical assistance to Property Managers.

• Operates a motor vehicle to visit job sites.

• May oversee the work of consultant resident engineers and construction managers, and of consultant design personnel providing construction support services.

• May supervise staff performing asbestos removal or lead abatement work involving removal or encapsulation of lead contained in or on any surface.

Qualifications

1. A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent approved by a State’s Department of Education or a recognized accrediting organization, and five years of full-time satisfactory experience managing and/or inspecting one or more construction projects which must have a total cost of at least $300,000 for each of the five years of the required experience; or

2. One year of the experience as described in “1” above and a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university, accredited by regional, national, professional or specialized agencies recognized as accrediting bodies by the U. S. Secretary of Education and by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA), in engineering, engineering technology, architecture, architectural technology, landscape architecture, construction, construction technology, or construction management; or

3. One year of the experience as described in “1” above and a valid license as a professional engineer, registered architect, or registered landscape architect, issued by a board of examining engineers, architects, or landscape architects duly established and qualified pursuant to the laws of any state or territory of the United States; or

4. A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent approved by a State's Department of Education or a recognized accrediting organization, and a combination of at least two years of experience as described in “1” above and the education as described in “2” above to equal a total of five years of education and experience. Matriculation in an undergraduate college degree program as described in “2” above may be substituted for experience on the basis of 30 semester credits for one year of satisfactory full-time experience up to a maximum of three years of experience.

Note: Candidates must specify for each construction project they worked on: a description of the construction project, the time period they worked on the construction project, and the type of work they performed. Candidates must also specify the money allotted for the project.

Driver License Requirement: At the time of appointment to this position, you must have a motor vehicle driver license valid in the State of New York. If you have moving violations, license suspension or an accident record, you may be disqualified. This license must be maintained for the duration of your employment.

5. For Assignment to Level II, In addition to meeting the "Qualification Requirements" above, candidates must have one additional year of satisfactory full-time experience working in Assignment Level I; or one additional year of satisfactory full-time experience as described in "1" above.

6. For Assignment to Level III, in addition to meeting the Qualification Requirements for Construction Project Manager, candidates must have two additional years of satisfactory full-time experience working in Construction Project Manager Assignment Level I and II; or two additional years of satisfactory full-time experience as described in question "1" above and possess a motor vehicle driver license valid in the State of New York which must be maintained for the duration of employment noting that if you have moving violations, license suspension or an accident record, you may be disqualified.

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.