Position Summary: The Department of Education’s (DOE) Energy Team consists of staff within the Division of School Facilities’ Office of Maintenance and Optimization and the Office of Sustainability. The DOE Energy Team oversees energy management and emissions reductions activities across the DOE’s portfolio, which includes more than 1,400 buildings, accounting for 131M square feet, and represents approximately 40 percent of total City-owned building square footage. DOE also is the largest energy-consuming City agency, accounting for nearly 22 percent of City government’s energy consumption.
The DOE is scaling up the volume of work generated to meet the City’s reduction standards including reductions of energy usage of 40% by 2025, 50% by 2030 and 80% by 2050. To achieve energy and emissions reductions across our portfolio and let us fully participate in many DEM programs, including retro-commissioning and load management, the DOE must address the Agency’s Building Management Systems (BMS) issues. The Energy Project Manager will identify controls related energy conservation measures.
Performs related work.
Reports to: Associate Director, Energy
Direct Reports: N/A
Key Relationships: Relationships will be fostered with Energy Managers citywide, Directors of Facilities, and other pertinent supervisors and staff associated with managing projects related to reducing energy consumption.
Responsibilities
- Plans, coordinates, directs, and implements large-scale, complex mechanical projects within the boroughs related to the management of energy. Delivers energy projects in facilities with BMS and HVAC digital controls systems. Oversees the implementation of contracted services. Ensures that projects are delivered on time, on budget, and in accordance with scope. Manages project documentation and performs on-demand reporting. Helps track energy usage and energy cost savings associated with upgraded building controls systems.
- Maintains management information systems to provide data for the planning and control of energy reduction as it relates to mechanical equipment, for use by senior management.
- Implements a citywide DOE plan to upgrade outdated and defunct BMS systems across the DOE’s Portfolio; serves as a manager of operations of a maintenance and technical support office providing a broad range of maintenance, repair, rehabilitation and technical support services for a very large number of city-owned buildings.
- Manages inventory database of existing systems and equipment and their critical characteristics, including age and useful life. Uses the gathered data to identify controls upgrade and optimization opportunities that can be scaled up across facilities with specific commonalities. Conducts site visits to high-priority facilities to assess overall condition of systems and make recommendations for upgrades.
- Creates highly technical and complex reports regarding Building Management Systems to analyze trends, anomalies, and re-tuning opportunities for optimized operations. Identifies BMS maintenance issues and brings them to successful resolution.
- Prepares complex management reports regarding energy usage and consumption throughout a borough. Analyzes data associated with energy consumption and provides recommendations and advice to operations teams, gleaning from the reports and analysis managed. Focuses on areas of needed improvement and zeros in on significant problem areas.
- Develops project scope of work through surveys and site visits and manages mechanical contracts and project managers throughout project implementation. Reviews contractor proposals for accuracy and inspects the completed work for project close-outs. Resolves technical project issues and manages project documentation, including work orders, scopes of work, cost proposals and invoices, and project status sheets.
- Sets goals, develops performance metrics, tracks progress, and recommends areas of improvement for energy efficient operation and energy reduction, in coordination with the Energy Managers.
- Lends expertise to the DOE Energy and Sustainability groups.
Qualification Requirements:
Minimum
- 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
- 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.
Preferred
- Ability to read and interpret mechanical and electrical schematics and drawings.
- Familiarity with ASHRAE guidelines for high-performance buildings.
- Knowledge of equipment vendors and vendor-specific programming, specifically Johnson Controls, Distech, Schneider, and Siemens.
- Niagara N4 certification.
- Experience using Microsoft Excel to manage data.
- Good spoken and written communication skills
- Ability to effectively manage simultaneous projects.
Salary: $81,361 - $85,000
(Internal candidates who are selected for this position and who currently hold comparable or less senior positions within the DOE will not earn less than their current salary.)
Please include a resume and cover letter with your application.
NOTE: The filling of all positions is subject to budget availability and/or grant funding.
* New York City Residency is NOT Required *
We encourage all applicants from the New York City tri-state area to apply. |
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