Construction Project Manager (BBJ)

Job Description

ALL APPLICANTS MUST CURRENTLY BE PERMANENT IN THE TITLE OF CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MANAGER OR HAVAE TAKEN AND PASSED THE MOST RECENT EXAM #3042

The New York City Department of Correction (DOC) is an integral part of the City’s evolving criminal justice system, participating in reform initiatives and strategies aimed to move the City towards a smaller jail system without compromising public safety. The DOC is responsible for maintaining a safe and secure environment for our employees, visitors, volunteers and people in our custody. Importantly, safe jails enable DOC to provide people in custody with the tools and opportunities they need to successfully re-enter their communities. The DOC operates facilities and court commands across the five boroughs with more than 7,500 diverse professionals and knowledgeable experts.

The DOC is seeking qualified Construction Project Manager who under general supervision, will coordinate and expedite the development or improvement of a number of simple capital engineering, architectural, or landscape architectural projects. Responsibilities will include

-Maintains a management information system to provide data for the planning and control of project development
-Establishes project time and cost schedules
-Determines and coordinates the activities required between the persons, agencies, and departments responsible for project completion
-Reviews all schedules, reports and orders prepared by consultants, contractors, and agencies to assure conformance with project completion dates
-Checks work performance and prepares management reports which stress significant problems
-Resolves problems that arise in meeting schedules and costs
-Meets with City agencies, contractors, and citizen groups.
-Assists client agencies in formulating project needs, options, and consequences, assuring that functional requirements are adequately articulated and that proposed projects fulfill these requirements. Assists client agencies in developing scope of project, drawing upon technical resources of project manager's agency to develop conceptual estimates and schedules
-Assists in overseeing the consultant selection and contracting process, and manages these contracts, or retains in-house design and construction management staff
-With the client agency, conducts a post-occupancy evaluation of facilities
-In the temporary absence of immediate supervisor, may assume the duties of that position

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The City of New York offers a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance for the employee and his/her spouse or domestic partner and unemancipated children under age 26, union benefits such as dental and vision coverage, paid annual leave and sick leave, paid holidays, a pension, and optional savings and pre-tax programs such as Deferred Compensation, IRA, and a flexible spending account.

CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MANAGER - 34202

Qualifications

1. 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
2. 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 by the U. S. Secretary of Education and by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA), in engineering, engineering technology, architecture, architectural technology, landscape architecture, construction, construction technology, or construction management; or
3. One year of the experience as described in “1” above and a valid license as a professional engineer, registered architect, or registered landscape architect, issued by a board of examining engineers, architects, or landscape architects duly established and qualified pursuant to the laws of any state or territory of the United States; or
4. A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent approved by a State's Department of Education or a recognized accrediting organization, and a combination of at least two years of experience as described in “1” above and the education as described in “2” above to equal a total of five years of education and experience. Matriculation in an undergraduate college degree program as described in “2” above may be substituted for experience on the basis of 30 semester credits for one year of satisfactory full-time experience up to a maximum of three years of experience.

Note: Candidates must specify for each construction project they worked on: a description of the construction p