Technical Assistant, Engineering

• Job Category:
  Administration & Human Resources
• Compensation: USD 61,656 - USD 89,625

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 allows DEP as a whole to continue to operate and maintain an exemplary water supply system.

BEDC In-House Design (IHD) directorate provides design and engineering services to meet operations’ needs in a manner consistent with BEDC’s core values of safety, schedule, quality, and customer service. IHD supports projects from the business case through preliminary design, design, procurement construction, and finally with the turnover to operations. The directorate includes two divisions:
Design Services and Engineering Services.

IHD’s Engineering Services includes the Quality Assurance, Laboratory Services, Specifications/Standard Operating Procedures, Sustainability, and BIM/CADD sections. The Engineering Services division focuses on project’s sustainability, resiliency, laboratory material testing, quality reviews and inspections, standardization of documents, project delivery standards and uses current BIM/CADD technology to streamline engineering design processes.

IHD’s Design Services includes Architectural, Site Civil, Structural, Process Mechanical/HVAC, Water Tunnel Mechanical Systems, and Electrical discipline sections. Each design section prepares design and construction documents including engineering plans and specifications for the construction of water supply, sewer, and wastewater treatment infrastructure. They also provide design services during construction. IHD projects are typically of the highest priority for the Agency. The projects worked on are some of the largest public work’s contracts administered by the City.

They are vital to the health and welfare of the citizens of New York and allow the designers to leave a lasting legacy by creating facilities that will be utilized for generations to come.

BEDC seeks to hire a Technical Assistant for the In-House Design Directorate located in our Lefrak office in Queens, NY. Under the direction of the Executive Director of IHD, with wide latitude for the exercise of independent initiative and judgement, the selected candidate will perform all necessary administrative functions required for the IHD Directorate. In this capacity, the candidate will be responsible for maintaining the Executive Director’s daily schedule and scheduling meetings and conference rooms.

They will be responsible for performing duties of a technical assistant by working with the various IHD staff to modify word documents such as contract specifications to appropriate formats, preparing spreadsheets for managing data, distributing work assignments to appropriate sections through the e-builder system and tracking responses as well as tracking incoming and outgoing correspondence and telephone inquiries. Work will also include preparing travel request and other routine memoranda and miscellaneous support functions for the sections within the directorate.

The selected candidate will serve as a point of contact for the directorate on communicating news, updates or general information, disseminating of supplies for the unit. They will keep the IHD managers informed of any issues that may require attention and provide any status reports or help to research information as required by the Executive Director. The…