Energy Project Manager

The City of New York is hiring an Energy Project Manager for its Department of Environmental Protection in Lincoln, NE. The role involves advancing energy projects, ensuring they meet savings and GHG reduction goals, and supporting project analysis and documentation. Candidates should have relevant educational backgrounds or experience in energy management or conservation. The position requires monitoring projects from initiation to completion and attending progress meetings.
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 stormwater, 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 Office of Energy and Resource Recovery Programs (Energy Office) is charged with plotting the course for DEP to meet its energy and carbon neutrality goals, as well as maximizing resource recovery. The Energy Office also provides energy and performance tracking, program assessment, scientific research, emergency planning and internal auditing services to DEP's operating bureaus.

The Energy Office is responsible for advancing priority projects that realize energy savings or reduce GHG emissions; the Office is looking to hire an Energy Project Manager who will report to the Deputy Director of Energy Projects to make sure priority projects advance on schedule and deliver the full project scope required to meet the agency’s goals. The Energy Project Manager will gather information from operational bureaus and Energy Office databases to justify and advance energy projects.

They will support analysis to determine the scope of potential energy savings and GHG emission reductions and comment on business cases and in design meetings to push for inclusion of energy saving measures.

This role will be responsible for ensuring that projects realize projected savings and will monitor the progress of energy projects from project initiation to construction completion. Candidates should have experience designing and implementing Measurement and Verification (M&V) plans and tracking progress across a portfolio of projects. The Energy Project Manager will attend internal progress meetings for energy projects and prepare documentation as needed to support project delivery.
Minimum Qualifications
• A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university in architecture or architectural technology; biology; building science; chemistry; construction management; energy management; engineering, engineering technology; environmental science; facilities management; physics; or a related field; or
• Completion of an apprentice program, a minimum of two (2) years in length, in a construction trade with an emphasis on energy efficiency for buildings and two (2) years of satisfactory, full-time experience in energy generation or conservation work such as planning, developing, implementing, inspecting, analyzing, testing, and verifying interventions to generate clean energy or reduce energy usage; or
• Four (4) years of satisfactory, full-time experience in energy generation or conservation work such as planning, developing, implementing, inspecting, analyzing, testing, and verifying interventions to generate clean energy or reduce energy usage; or
• Education and/or experience equivalent to “1,” “2,” or “3” above. One (1) year of acceptable experience will be credited for every 30 semester credits of undergraduate education in any of the fields described in “1” above. One (1) year of acceptable experience will be credited for a master’s degree in any of the fields described in “1” above.Special Note

To be eligible for placement in Assignment Level II, candidates other than Professional Engineers or Registered Architects must have either:
• A Bachelor of Architecture degree that is the first professional degree in architecture from an accredited college; or
• A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university and a master’s degree in building science, energy management, or engineering from an accredited college or university; or
• After meeting the minimum qualification requirements, a master’s degree in any of the fields described in “1” above.
• After meeting the minimum qualification requirements, one (1) additional year of experience as described in…