OCA Project Manager

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-today 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 55 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 of them all. It's an opportunity to provide impactful 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.

NYC Department of Citywide Administrative Services, Construction and Technical Services (CTS) Line of Service seeks to hire to hire an Administrative Project Manager (Admin PM) to oversee court building assessments, repairs, and restoration of DCAS-managed court buildings and sites and to properly manage Capital and Expense projects within DCAS-owned and managed court buildings.

Under the direct supervision of the Deputy Chief Engineer the qualified candidate will represent the unit by performing duties and responsibilities as an Administrative Project Manager. These duties will include, but will not be limited to:
- Coordinating with the Office of Court Administration (OCA) and CTS in-house technical staff design details before and during construction.
- Managing construction projects and coordinating with OCA and in-house staff, consultants, and client agencies.
- Reviewing field conditions and preparing sketches for omitted conditions on design drawings.
- Reviewing construction/consultants reports to determine payment progress.
- Conducting field inspections for a fair and reasonable standard of proposed negotiations, based on field conditions.
- Developing change order negotiations, based on technical bulletins, drawings, and sketches, and reviewing the validity of extra work costs and credits of the work performed is not part of the original contract.
- Reviewing all change orders submitted for DCAS in-house projects for its validity, cost and preparing for submission to Engineering Audit.
- Reviewing and analyzing construction requisitions based on work progress is in conformance to the plans and specifications reports and determine final payment amounts.
- Preparing project estimates based on building needs (Capital/Expense New Needs) and as proposed by the in-house staff.
- Reviewing construction projects estimates for DCAS facilities as submitted by other agencies and reviewing consultants and contractors estimates for accuracy and completeness.
- Reviewing contract documents comprised of drawings and specifications to attain estimates of value(s).
- Assisting in-house staff in the pricing and the forecasting of cost trends and factors.


To Apply:
Please go to www.nyc.gov/jobs, or www.nyc.gov/ess for current NYC employees, and search for Job ID # 686498
No phone calls, faxes or personal inquiries permitted. Only those candidates under consideration will be contacted.

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college in engineering, architecture, landscape architecture, business administration, or public administration, and five years of full-time satisfactory experience in the planning, administering or expediting of engineering design, and/or construction, or coordinating a very large engineering project, two years of which must have been in an administrative, managerial, executive or supervisory capacity; or
2. A four year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and nine years of experience as described in "1" above; two years of which must have been in an administrative, managerial, executive or supervisory capacity; or

3. Education and/or experience equivalent to "1" or "2" above. An accredited Master's degree in one of the disciplines described in "1" above, a law degree, or a valid New York State license as a Professional Engineer or Registered Architect or Landscape Architect may be substituted for one year of the required experience. However, all candidates must have the two years of the administrative, managerial, executive or supervisory experience as described in "1" above.

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.