Job Description

Important Information

This position is based at NYC Health + Hospitals. Any individual hired in this role would be a NYC Health + Hospital employee only. Applications for this position must be submitted through NYC Health + Hospitals HERE: https://careers.nychhc.org/psc/hrtam/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM_FL.HRS_CG_SEARCH_FL.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_SCHJOB_FL&Action=U

About NYC Health + Hospitals:

Empower Every New Yorker Without Exception to Live the Healthiest Life Possible

NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest public health care system in the United States. We provide essential outpatient, inpatient and home-based services to more than one million New Yorkers every year across the city’s five boroughs. Our large health system consists of ambulatory centers, acute care centers, post-acute care/long-term care, rehabilitation programs, Home Care, and Correctional Health Services. Our diverse workforce is uniquely focused on empowering New Yorkers, without exception, to live the healthiest life possible.

At NYC Health + Hospitals, our mission is to deliver high quality care health services, without exception. Every employee takes a person-centered approach that exemplifies the ICARE values (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence) through empathic communication and partnerships between all persons.

Job Description:

H+H seeks to hire a visionary and experienced Energy Manager/Building Automation System (BAS) Manager (Grant Funded Position) to join our forward-thinking Corporate Decarbonization Office. This role, reporting to the Director of Energy Management, involves leading the charge in revolutionizing energy efficiency controls across our facilities. The ideal candidate will pioneer the shift from outdated pneumatic/ Legacy Direct Digital Control (DDC) systems to cutting-edge, flexible, and platform-neutral control solutions, setting new standards in sustainability and operational excellence within H+H.

General tasks and responsibilities will include:

• Evaluating the operational condition of various BAS throughout H+H’s portfolio: Create detailed condition assessment reports for the existing Building Automation Systems (BAS) by collaborating with Chief Engineers and the Director of Engineering, focusing on potential software and hardware updates, operational enhancements, and new component installations.

• Executing energy efficiency control upgrade initiatives: Collaboratively engage with consultants and contractors, the capital development team, facilities management, and the IT department to oversee the design and construction of energy-efficient control projects, ensuring timely and budget-conscious completion. Critically review, provide insightful feedback, and offer recommendations on design packages proposed by consultants, enhancing project outcomes and efficiency standards. Utilize the Design-Build project delivery method wherever feasible to streamline project execution and enhance efficiency

• Overseeing controls procurement and design: Review plans, construction contract specifications, and codes to determine project requirements and their compliance with H+H specifications for new control projects. Select materials, including DDC modules, field sensing and control devices, dampers, and valves, to meet project requirements, specifications, codes, and standards. Also, create standard specs to be used for controls upgrade projects.

• Effective monitoring of building control systems, identifying operational efficiency improvements: Apply data trending methods and advanced data analysis software (upon acquisition) to identify opportunities for refining operational sequences and enhancing HVAC equipment efficiency. Furthermore, systematically capture and review 'snapshots' of control trends for substantial mechanical equipment, aiming to identify strategies for reducing operational durations and optimizing energy usage through adjustments in GPM flow rates, CFM airflows, and operating pressures wherever feasible.

• Performing project tracking and reporting: Maintain project-related documentation, including work orders, scopes of work, cost proposals, invoices, project status sheets, and progress reports. Perform data collection and tracking necessary to ensure accurate, on-demand project reporting in various areas, including compliance with project schedules, budgets, scopes, and verified energy savings and emissions reductions.

• Performing capital project administrative functions: Manage and ensure successful completion of administrative tasks such as reviewing Certificate to Proceed packages and project registrations, authorizing change orders, initiating Purchase Orders, and reviewing, preparing, and approving payment requests.

• Quantifying energy conservation opportunities: Prepare applications for funding programs and provide periodic updates/reports to the DCAS Division of Energy Management. Perform technical calculations to estimate the expected energy savings, cost savings, and emissions reductions for controls upgrade projects.

• Commissioning of Control systems: Provide technical support and guidance in the commissioning, testing, and optimizing HVAC control systems for any large MEP project listed in the H+H project portfolio to ensure compliance with standard design specifications, operational efficiency, and energy conservation objectives.

• Providing other necessary support to the H+H Corporate Energy Office: Contribute to the other initiatives being advanced by the H+H Corporate Energy Office as needed.

To Apply:

Please go to www.nyc.gov/careers and search for Job ID # 644025.

For current City employees please go to www.nyc.gov/ess and log into Employee Self Service.

NO PHONE CALLS, FAXES, OR PERSONAL INQUIRIES PERMITTED. NOTE: ONLY THOSE CANDIDATES UNDER CONSIDERATION WILL BE CONTACTED.

Qualifications

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and four years of satisfactory, full-time experience of a nature to qualify for the duties of the position, at least 18 months of which must have been in an administrative, managerial or executive capacity or supervising personnel performing activities related to the duties of the position; or

2. Education and/or experience equivalent to "1" above. However, all candidates must have the 18 months of administrative, managerial, executive or supervisory experience described in "1" above.

Additional Information

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.