Asset Reliability Specialist

***Important Notice: IMPORTANT NOTE: Only those currently serving as a permanent or probable permanent, i.e. probationary, Assistant Environmental Engineering will be considered. ***


The NYC Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) protects public health and the environment by supplying clean drinking water, collecting and treating wastewater, 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 delivers more than 1.1 billion gallons per day of the highest quality drinking water to 8.5 million NYC residents and more than 1 million people in Upstate New York and has a wastewater conveyance and treatment system capable of processing over 1.3 billion gallons of wastewater per day to protect the environment and the city’s surrounding waterways.

The Bureau of Wastewater Treatment (BWT) is responsible for the operation and maintenance of all facilities related to the treatment of sewage within the five boroughs of the City. This includes 14
wastewater treatment plants, sludge dewatering facilities, collections facilities (pumping stations, combined sewer overflow retention facilities, regulators, tide gates, etc.), wastewater laboratories and harbor vessels.

Within BWT, the Asset Management (AM) Planning Section is responsible for the development and administration of an Asset Management Program (AMP) that empowers the Bureau’s facilities and physical assets to achieve a State of Good Repair (SOGR) and attain desired service goals consistently and sustainably. The goal is to improve coordination and management of assets and activities by embedding AM practices within all levels of the organization to enable risk based and data driven decision making, and ultimately realize reduction of risk and ownership costs to DEP’s ratepayers. The AMP will utilize AM principles from ISO 55000 and other industry practices to optimize activities across the asset lifecycle of operation, maintenance, repair, and renewal. The Section will work with members of BWT’s Lifecycle Management Section, Capital Planning & Budget Section, and Collections and Plant Operations to collaboratively develop Bureau level strategies that align with all stakeholders’ needs. The Section will also work with the Digital Transformation Directorate, including the Asset Management Maintenance Team, to Location Department
ensure that the AMP is sustained in the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) used by the Bureau to manage its assets into the future.


Job duties include but not limited to:
1. Support as a technical resource working closely with the Bureau’s Facility Managers and Reliability Centered Maintenance Engineers (RCMEs) to help define and implant the full range of RCM practices into the Asset Management Program for the optimization of asset performance, lifecycle, planning/ scheduling techniques, and repair/replace decisions for cost effective outcomes.
2. Assist in comparing and assessing asset maintenance and management practices across facilities to determine gaps and establish baseline strategies and applicable RCM practices for similar asset groups across all asset classes.
3. Analyze asset history information to provide industry standard analytics, initiate failure analysis or forecast, and recommend appropriate revisions to maintenance or renewal strategies
4. Coordinate with Operations/Maintenance, and Engineering/Construction to ensure smooth commissioning and acceptance of new assets, including quality and completeness of: submitted asset data by examining engineering drawings as needed, turnover and acceptance procedures, capture of associated documents (warranties, Lock Out Tag Out), and establishment of initial maintenance strategy.
5. Assist in analyzing and identifying best workflows or processes for asset data organization, intake, standardization, utilization, and needs to ensure RCM elements can be fully implemented.
6. Work with stakeholders to articulate service categories and related objectives, asset failure impact on service goals, asset criticality assignments, and other key performance indicators (KPIs). Also facilitate root cause failure analysis, findings capture, and precipitate proposed mitigation and monitoring solutions.
7. Compile or direct plan updates for the AM Workplan to submit regulatory mandated annual updates.

ASSISTANT ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINE - 20617

1. A baccalaureate degree in environmental, chemical, mechanical, petroleum, aeronautical, or materials engineering from an accredited college or university and one year of full-time satisfactory experience in environmental engineering work; or

2. A baccalaureate degree in environmental, chemical, mechanical, petroleum, aeronautical, or materials
engineering from an accredited college and master’s degree in environmental engineering from an accredited college.

A master's degree in environmental engineering from an accredited college can only be used to substitute for one year of full-time satisfactory work experience in environmental engineering.

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.