Construction Project Manager

DCAS's Mission Is To Make City Government Work For All New Yorkers. From Managing New York City's Most Iconic Courthouses And Municipal Buildings, To Purchasing Over $1 Billion Annually In Goods And Services For More Than 80 City Agencies. What We Do Ensures That All Agencies Can Deliver On Their Mission. Our Reach Touches Every Facet Of City Government And Is Instrumental To The Successful Day-to-day Operations Of The City Of New York.

Our Commitment To Equity, Effectiveness, And Sustainability Guides Our Work Providing City Agencies With The Critical Resources And Support Needed To Succeed, Including

• Recruiting, hiring, and training City employees.
• Managing 56 public buildings.
• Acquiring, selling, and leasing City property.
• Purchasing over $1 billion in goods and services for City agencies.
• Overseeing the greenest municipal vehicle fleet in the country.
• Leading the City's efforts to reduce carbon emissions from government operations.

When you work at DCAS, you're not just working for one agency, but in service to all of them. It's an opportunity to provide meaningful support, quality customer service, and help protect the future of New York City for generations to come. Visit our website /DCAS to learn more about the work we do.

Facilities Management & Construction (FMC) manages, operates, and maintains 56 City-owned buildings throughout the five boroughs, working to provide clean, safe, and energy efficient space for the tenants in these public buildings. FMC is dedicated to both the daily maintenance of the public buildings, managed by Building Services, Fire & Life Safety, and other critical field staff, as well as to long-term renovation and rehabilitation projects, which are managed by a dedicated staff of architects, engineers, and other professional technical experts.

FMC also oversees the daily operations of all elevators across the DCAS public buildings portfolio.

• Coordinating with unit in-house technical staff design details before and during construction.
• Managing construction projects and coordinating with in-house staff, consultants, and client agencies.
• Reviewing field conditions and preparing sketches for omitted conditions on design drawings.
• Reviewing construction/consultants reports to determine payment progress.
• Conducting field inspections for a fair and reasonable standard of proposed negotiations, based on field conditions.
• Developing change order negotiations, based on technical bulletins, drawings, and sketches, and reviewing the validity of extra work costs and credits of the work performed is not part of the original contract.
• Reviewing all change orders submitted for DCAS in-house projects for their validity and cost and preparing for submission to Engineering Audit.
• Reviewing and analyzing construction requisitions based on work progress is in conformance to the plans and specification reports and determines final payment amounts.
• Preparing project estimates based on building needs (Capital/Expense New Needs) and as proposed by the in-house staff.
• Reviewing construction projects estimates for DCAS facilities as submitted by other agencies and reviewing consultants and contractors' estimates for accuracy and completeness.
• Reviewing contract documents comprised of drawings and specifications to attain estimates of value(s).
• Assisting in-house staff in the pricing and the forecasting of cost trends and factors

Only permanent employees in the civil service title of Construction Project Manager or those reachable on exam# 3042 or exam# 5058 are eligible to apply.

• 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
• 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…