Energy Engineer

Energy Engineer

Department: Facilities

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Stephen

A. Schwarzman Building

Reporting To: Zoe Beinhorn

Compensation: $76,000 - $85,000 / year

Overview The NYPL Energy Team is committed to implementing energy management best practices across the NYPL’s portfolio of buildings to help the City meet its ambitious emissions reductions and energy goals. NYPL is working to reduce building emissions by 49% by 2025 and 86% by 2030 (compared to 2005 levels), culminating in full decarbonization by 2050. The Energy Team works to track overall energy usage and identify energy-saving opportunities in buildings, implement energy-efficient operations and maintenance (O&M) practices, and oversee the delivery of energy-efficiency retrofit projects.

The Energy Engineer provides direction and oversight on operation and maintenance activities across the New York Public Library’s portfolio of real estate to ensure all locations are operating efficiently. The Energy Engineer will work with outside vendors and project managers on designing, specifying, programming and integrating new and existing building management systems (BMS). The position requires a technical understanding of HVAC systems, diligent recordkeeping and other administrative duties related to maintaining an efficient and professional Facility Operations team.

We are looking for someone we can count on to:

Own

• Coordination and management of multiple building automation installation projects across NYPL’s portfolio.
• Technical assistance and troubleshooting of BMS and solar systems

Teach

• Staff to identify opportunities for improvement in energy efficiency and sustainability and how to execute such measures.

Learn

• How the Facilities Department interacts with other divisions and departments
• How to improve critical work functions and efficiencies department-wide.
• Diversification of knowledge of building systems and equipment.

Improve

• The ability of NYPL to provide library patrons and staff with an energy efficient, safe and welcoming environment.

Some expectations for this role are that within:

1 month

• Understand how the library is organized and physically laid out
• Understand the specific goals and role of the Energy Team and Facilities Operations team in relation to other departments
• Know their departmental contacts
• Begin to perform inspections and assessments of Library branches

3 months

• Serve as a primary point of contact on energy team for BMS systems of all branches
• Participate in interdepartmental planning meetings
• Develop logistical plans
• Oversee implementation of schedules
• Resolve problems and create action plans within limited resources

6 months and beyond

• Train others on energy conservation and sustainability
• Perform inspections and assessments independently
• Develop cost estimates for resource redeployment

Responsibilities

• Support the design and development of energy efficiency and/or clean energy projects: Collaborate with NYPL’s Energy Team to identify potential energy efficiency and clean energy project opportunities at City facilities. Assess the current state and provide risk analysis of City facilities to develop recommendations for building optimization and energy efficiency. Develop project scope of work through surveys and site visits and prepare energy project funding proposals and supporting documents (i.e., materials that calculate estimated energy savings, cost savings, emissions reductions, and other benefits expected from energy projects).
• Provide technical assessments, design review, and M&V. Perform engineering calculations and energy modeling to verify the reasonableness and accuracy of estimated energy usage reductions, energy cost savings, and avoided emissions for proposed energy efficiency projects. Assess construction design information such as detail and assembly drawings, design calculations, system layouts and sketches, or specifications. Review, provide comments, and make recommendations on design packages submitted by consultants for proposed energy efficiency projects.
  
  Evaluate designs or specifications submitted by contractors to ensure accuracy and quality. Perform measurement and verification (M&V)…