Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager

The New York City Mayor's Office is responsible for overseeing city services throughout the five boroughs, coordinating public agencies and departments, and managing public property. The administration is leading the fight in making the city more affordable, reducing inequality, improving public safety, ensuring delivery of efficient and effective services, and working to make New York City's economy stronger. We value leadership, transparency, fairness, and efficiency as we actively seek diverse talents from various sectors to join our team.

The NYC Mayor's Office of Environmental Remediation (OER) designs and implements the City's brownfield cleanup and redevelopment initiatives. Foremost among these is the NYC Voluntary Cleanup Program (NYC VCP), the nation's only municipally-run cleanup program, which offers remedial oversight and liability protection to property owners and developers of over 250 sites each year. Brownfields are sites where redevelopment is complicated by the presence of contamination, including from prior site uses, historic fill, or chemical spills. The office manages the NYC Clean Soil Bank, a municipally-run soil exchange that directs clean soil from construction sites to projects across the city that need it. OER's clean soil stockpile provides NYC construction projects with no cost disposal of clean soil and provides clean soil to City and private projects as well as community gardens at no cost. OER also supports Community Brownfield Planning Areas and administers the Brownfield Incentive Grant (BIG) program, which provides funding for the investigation and cleanup of brownfield sites as well as grants to community-based organizations conducting planning around brownfields. Additional OER programs and initiatives include the E-Designation Program for hazardous materials, air quality, and noise; Green Property Certification; and community engagement activities.

OER seeks a Senior Project Manager to supervise and perform professional scientific work in environmental engineering and geology on project sites under the E-Designation and City's Voluntary Cleanup program.

The Problems You'll Solve:

• Reporting to the Director, manage individual development projects which includes the review and approval of plans, site investigation reports, remedial action work plans and final remedial action reports on a schedule prepared by a development team and their environmental consultant. A senior project manager ensures that a project will meet environmental requirements on a development team's project schedule.
• Implement applicable laws and regulations and policy to meet Mayor's Office and PlaNYC strategic environmental, remedial and engineering goals.
• Become fluent in all OER Environmental Quality programs (NYC VCP, E-Designation Hazmat, Noise and Air) and other OER Programs including JumpStart, BIG Grants, Brownfield Partnership, Green Team, Green Property Certification, SPEED, EPIC, Clean Soil Bank, and be prepared to provide assistance and answer questions from public.
• Lead communications with development teams, the general public, elected officials, the press and other city agencies in accordance with OER and Mayor's Office policies.
• Oversee and review work products produced by Project Managers, create and present learning or training opportunities for Project Managers on specialized complex environmental engineering projects.
• Inspect, and participate in field sampling and remediation, and oversee engineering activities.
• Review and oversee the Site Management Plans for projects. Report and recommend changes based on continual review of inspection findings. Signs and seals engineering and other official documents.
• Prepare original proposals and complex reports regarding unique environmental engineering and remediation matters.
• Maintains databases and archives established by OER management for oversight of programs.

Minimum Qualifications:

1. A valid New York State Professional Engineer License and four years of full-time experience in environmental engineering. A master's degree in environmental engineering from an accredited college will be accepted as equivalent to one year of the full-time experience in environmental engineering. SPECIAL NOTE: In addition to above qualification requirements, to be eligible for placement in Assignment Level II or III, individuals must have at least one year within the last three years of experience as a major contributor or a project leader on a complex project requiring additional and specific expertise in the disciplines needed to design or construct the project.

Preferred Skills:

Experienced knowledge of New York State Part 375 rules and regulations. Outstanding organizational, interpersonal, and management skills. Three or more years of managing environmental cleanup and remediation projects.

This position is also open to qualified persons with a disability who are eligible for the 55-a Program. Please indicate at the top of your resume and cover letter that you would like to be considered for the position through the 55-a Program.

As a prospective employee of the City of New York, you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs. For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Education's website at

New York City Residency is not required for this position.

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.