Assistant Project Director-Long Campus Transformation

NYU Langone Health is a fully integrated health system that consistently achieves the best patient outcomes through a rigorous focus on quality that has resulted in some of the lowest mortality rates in the nation. Vizient Inc. has ranked NYU Langone the No. 1 comprehensive academic medical center in the country for three years in a row, and U.S. News & World Report recently placed nine of its clinical specialties among the top five in the nation.

NYU Langone offers a comprehensive range of medical services with one high standard of care across 6 inpatient locations, its Perlmutter Cancer Center, and over 320 outpatient locations in the New York area and Florida. With $14.2 billion in revenue this year, the system also includes two tuition‑free medical schools, in Manhattan and on Long Island, and a vast research enterprise with over $1 billion in active awards from the National Institutes of Health.

We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as an Assistant Project Director – Long Island (LI) Campus Transformation. In this role, the successful candidate will lead large, sensitive, and technically complex capital projects, support program leadership in directing resources and supervising contractors, consultants and in‑house project staff to ensure assigned projects are completed within approved schedules and budgets, meet quality standards set by drawings and specifications, and adhere to medical center construction site safety policies and procedures.

• Independent leadership of large, sensitive and technically complex capital projects supporting program leadership in directing resources and supervising contractors, consultants and in‑house project to ensure that assigned projects are completed within approved schedules and budgets; meet quality standards set by drawings and specifications; and adhere to medical center construction site safety policies and procedures.
• Assisting in the development of standards, policies and procedures for the successful implementation and execution of projects, in consultation with departmental leadership. Ensuring that Project Managers maintain complete and accurate data using RED+Fs data systems of record (Unifier and P6). Represent the Project Executive in his/her absence, including exercising delegation of approval authority for certain actions as deemed appropriate by departmental leadership.
• Providing support and direction of staff to ensure accurate cost estimates, complete and coordinated design documents, adherence to site safety and infection control policies and procedures, and ensuring high quality construction. Ensuring that planning, design, and construction activities on assigned projects are coordinated both within and across the mission capital portfolios. Working with program leadership to implement systems that measure project budget and schedule performance;
  
  identifying variances early and working with project team to develop and implement plans of correction; maintaining portfolio and project performance metrics for construction safety, schedule and budget.

• Demonstrated leadership qualities, including the ability to motivate, mentor and manage staff, the capacity to remain calm and make good decisions in stressful situations, and to inspire confidence and convey a positive and enabling attitude.
• The ability to lead, develop and manage multiple project teams in a collaborative environment.
• A broad based professional level of knowledge of best practices and industry standards in the design, construction, operations and maintenance of capital assets in complex healthcare.
• Familiarity with, and the ability to make recommendations for, appropriate procurement methods and project delivery models to suit the needs of a dynamic and fast moving capital portfolio while appropriately mitigating risk.
• Ability to function effectively in ambiguous situations, and to navigate in an environment with multiple variables and rapidly changing parameters. Ability to take initiative and make well‑informed decisions.
• Ability to respond swiftly to sensitive project‑related issues…