Deputy Director, Design-Build Project Delivery

DCAS’s Mission Is To Make City Government Work For All New Yorkers. From Managing New York City’s Most Iconic Courthouses And Municipal Buildings, To Purchasing Over $1 Billion Annually In Goods And Services For More Than 80 City Agencies. What We Do Ensures That All Agencies Can Deliver On Their Mission. Our Reach Touches Every Facet Of City Government And Is Instrumental To The Successful Day-to-day Operations Of The City Of New York. Our Commitment To Equity, Effectiveness, And Sustainability Guides Our Work Providing City Agencies With The Critical Resources And Support Needed To Succeed, Including

• Recruiting, hiring, and training City employees.
• Managing 56 public buildings.
• Acquiring, selling, and leasing City property.
• Purchasing over $1 billion in goods and services for City agencies.
• Overseeing the greenest municipal vehicle fleet in the country.
• Leading the City’s efforts to reduce carbon emissions from government operations.

When you work at DCAS, you’re not just working for one agency, but in service to all of them. It’s an opportunity to provide meaningful support, quality customer service, and help protect the future of New York City for generations to come. Visit our website at NYC.GOV/DCAS to learn more about the work we do.

Energy Management serves as the hub for energy efficiency and emissions reduction throughout NYC government operations, supporting our agency partners’ progress towards the City’s major emissions reduction and energy objectives. The Energy Management team concentrates their efforts in six areas: the City’s energy supply, clean energy generation, demand response & load management, energy efficient operations & maintenance, energy efficiency retrofit projects, and energy training & innovation.

Responsibilities Their primary responsibilities will be to exercise full administrative and technical responsibilities for capital project planning and delivery and to manage staff and design builders engaged in the design and construction of energy efficiency capital projects at City facilities. With wide latitude for the exercise of independent judgment and initiative, the Deputy Director will be charged with the following:

• Managing DEM’s in-house design-build (DB) energy efficiency capital implementation program: Provides administrative and technical support to the conceptualization, development, and execution of a new pipeline of in-house design-build (DB) capital projects. Identify strategies to scale up implementation opportunities across multiple facilities based on building typology, space use, and operational requirements. Keep track of portfolio of projects, provide programmatic support and updates to the Executive Director, Capital Project Implementation.
• Overseeing the development of RFQs and RFPs associated with the delivery of design build energy efficiency projects: In close collaboration with agency partners, consultants, and contractors, Oversee, review, provide feedback, and make recommendations on design build RFQs, RFPs, and design documents submitted by design builders for proposed or underway energy efficiency projects. Ensure that projects are conceptualized, framed, and delivered under the city’s design-build (DB) parameters and guidelines.
• Driving efforts to achieve division-wide financial commitments: Supports the program capital funding allocation strategy and provides feedback on the five- and ten-year capital plans. Responsible for meeting annual targets for capital utilization, including contract registration and funding encumbrances. Monitors and provides an oversight of payment approvals processes, work order changes, and capital fund liquidations.
• Provide technical guidance and quality assurance: Provides support for the development of technical tools, specifications, and guidelines for DEM engineers to utilize in evaluating

potential projects, conducting energy analysis, and measuring the impact of DEM investments via measurement and verification (M&V) activities. Implement industry’s best practices to ensure that high efficiency building systems are being designed, procured, constructed, and operated for optimal impact and cost-effectiveness.

• Liaising with agency partners, project delivery partners, and other stakeholders: Forms strong working relationships and establishes open communication with key constituents at partner agencies, including those responsible for energy management, building ope…