Portfolio Manager

PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE ONLY SEEKING INTERNAL CITY EMPLOYEES FOR THIS POSITION.

The NYC Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) enriches the environment and protects public health for all New Yorkers by providing 1.1 billion gallons of high-quality drinking water, managing wastewater and storm water, 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. DEP's water supply system is comprised of 19 reservoirs and 3 controlled lakes throughout the system’s 2,000 square mile watershed that extends 125 miles north and west of the City.

The Bureau of Engineering Design & Construction (BEDC) currently has a portfolio of capital projects valued at $35B, and another $13.6B projected over the next 10‑year commitment plan. The projects BEDC implements allow DEP as a whole to continue to operate and maintain an exemplary water supply system.

BEDC’s Special Projects Capital Program (SPCP) is responsible for the planning, design, construction management, and execution of capital projects aimed at upgrading and maintaining the city’s existing critical water and wastewater infrastructures. The upgrades help support our operating bureaus; the Bureau of Water Supply (BWS), the Bureau of Water and Sewer Operations (BWSO) and the Bureau of Wastewater Treatment (BWT). This work is essential to preserving the integrity, reliability, and quality of the water supply system, spanning DEP’s extensive network of Wastewater Resources and Recovering Facilities (WRRF) plants, dams, bridges, shafts, reservoirs, tunnels, pumping stations, ultraviolet disinfection and filtration systems, and other associated facilities across New York City and its watershed.

SPCP also leads all Design‑Build initiatives across all DEP Operating Bureaus, both within the City and in Upstate areas.

BEDC seeks to hire an Administrative Construction Project Manager M4 for the Special Projects Capital Program Directorate, located at our headquarters in Queens, NY. Under executive direction, reporting directly to the Executive Director of the Special Projects Capital Program with broad scope for the exercise of independent initiative judgment, the selected candidate will perform the duties of a Portfolio Manager.

Programed projects vary as they advance and are completed and new projects are initiated; projects included in this multibillion dollar program are mandated and/or are the highest priority to support the reliability of the wastewater treatment system and comply with stringent permit limits. The selected candidate will be responsible for the collaboration with the operating bureaus staff and leadership of SPCP staff, consultants and contractors to manage the planning, design, construction management, and construction required to support the following projects:

• PS-277 Reconstruction of 108th Street Pump Station
• PS-287 Eltingville Pumping Station
• PS-290 Conner Street Pumping Station
• PS-290FM Connor Street Force Main
• PS-296 Reconstruction of Melvin Avenue Pumping Station
• PS-QNS-2 Reconstruction of Little Neck, Linden Place and Park Drive East Pumping Stations
• RESAMSAF In-City Dams Central Park and Silver Lake
• Upstate Roadway Improvements
• Power Distribution Improvements at Port Richmond
• Sludge Dock Improvements

The selected candidate will be responsible for the overall performance of a portfolio of capital projects within the Special Projects Capital Program. S/he will direct the activities of Accountable Managers responsible for individual project delivery of capital projects. The selected candidate will conduct routine project reviews with Accountable Managers to ensure projects are delivered in accordance with the Bureau Project Delivery System, determine manpower requirements to deliver capital projects, ensure that project issues are resolved in a timely manner, represent the Bureau in meetings with Client Bureaus (BWT, BWSO, BWS), various City Agencies (OMB, MOCS, Law, Parks, Comptroller), elected officials, regulatory agencies, and…