Technical Emergency Supervisor

Job Description

About the Agency:

The New York City Department of Housing Preservation (HPD) promotes quality and affordability in the city's housing, and diversity and strength in the city’s neighborhoods because every New Yorker deserves a safe, affordable place to live in a neighborhood they love.

- We maintain building and resident safety and health.
- We create opportunities for New Yorkers through housing affordability.
- We engage New Yorkers to build and sustain neighborhood strength and diversity.

Your Team:

The Office of Enforcement and Neighborhood Services (OENS) leads the agency’s effort to work closely with other HPD divisions and outside community partners to identify buildings in distress, assess and develop appropriate strategies to address those properties and work closely with responsible owners to develop a plan to improve conditions and return buildings to firm financial footing and physical health. OENS uses enforcement tools within its Division of Code Enforcement, Housing Litigation Division, Emergency Operations and Enhanced Enforcement, and the Division of Neighborhood Preservation to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory obligations.

The Office of Enforcement of Neighborhood Services is composed of seven divisions: Data Management & Technology (DMT), Division of Neighborhood Preservation (DNP), Administration & Internal Compliance (AIC), Housing Litigation Division (HLD), Division of Code Enforcement (DCE), Emergency Operations and Enhanced Enforcement Division (EOD)
and Division of Emergency Housing Services (EHS).

Your Impact:

The Emergency Operations and Enhanced Enforcement Division is responsible for emergency repairs in privately-owned residential buildings and for monitoring vendor repair work in City-owned buildings. The primary goal of the division is to secure voluntary corrective action by the landlord, eliminating the need for direct City involvement.

Your Role:

Your role will be the Technical Emergency Supervisor-Construction Project Manager L-3 for the Emergency Operations and Enhanced Enforcement Division (EOD). The selected candidate will be responsible for but not limited to supervise and coordinate staff responsible for scoping, estimating, monitoring and providing signoff on work such as demolition, shed installation, bracing, shoring, fencing and inspections being done pursuant to DOB orders. Such supervision includes:

Your Responsibilities:

- Daily inspector routing, field operations management and support.
- Technical Demolition, Shore, Shed, Seal etc. scope and estimate creation, updates, modifications, assessments, approvals.
- Open Market Order creation.
- Code compliance verification.
- Field monitor report reviews and interpretation, taking action where necessary.
- Change order assessments and approvals.
- Payment invoice reviews and approvals.
- DOB Emergency Declaration, and Elevator referral tracking, ensuring all applicable jobs have been scoped, and Open Market Orders have been created.
- Performing complex demolition inspections and reviews of Inspectors scope.
- Providing criteria and requesting oversight approval from HPD management, where necessary, to enable remediation of DOB Emergency Declarations.
- Coordination and calendar updates for field actions including but not limited to: Prebid site meetings, Utility terminations, DOB and DEP site assessments, Access enforcement.
- As necessary, perform owner outreach, assistance and support relating to issued DOB Emergency Declaration(s) and elevator referrals.
- As necessary, maintain HPD and IEDA database updates.
- Monitoring contractor’s activities to ensure compliance with all federal, state and city rules and regulations.
- Preparing productivity and performance reports.

Preferred Skills:

- Background involving Structural: Assessment, design, repairs, modifications, installations, or demolition.
- Involvement with expediting and/or obtaining DOB or DEP permits
- Knowledge with Asbestos Regulations – DEP Title 15, Chapter 1 / Industrial Code Rule 56
- Construction/Demolition project management
- Managerial background
- Only those who are Permanent in Construction Project Manager title and candidates that have passed the Construction Project Manager exam #0169 or #3042 should apply.

Authorization to work in the United States is required for this position. The NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development does not provide sponsorship for international employees for visa applications, extensions, or status changes, including H-1B visas. Applicants are responsible for ensurin