Energy Conservation Specialist

The NYC Department of Sanitation (“DSNY”) promotes a healthy environment through efficient management of the City’s solid waste and environmentally sound long-range planning to handle New Yorkers’ recycling and garbage. DSNY is the world’s largest sanitation department, collecting more than 10,500 tons of residential and institutional garbage and 1,760 tons of recyclables every day. NYC businesses generate another 9,000 tons of material daily, which is collected by private carting companies. DSNY also clears litter, snow and ice from some 6,500 miles of streets, removes debris from vacant lots, and clears abandoned vehicles from City streets.

The DSNY Energy Team is housed within the Bureau of Building and Maintenance. The DSNY Energy Team is committed to implementing energy management best practices across DSNY’s portfolio of buildings and operating facilities to help the City meet its ambitious greenhouse gas emissions and energy reduction goals. The team works to track overall energy usage and identify energy-saving opportunities in DSNY buildings; deliver energy efficiency retrofit and clean energy projects; implement energy-efficient operations and maintenance practices; and support energy management training and behavioral change. The person in this position will serve as the Energy Controls Specialist for DSNY, working under the direction of the Energy Manager/BAS Manager.

Responsibilities

- Troubleshooting existing building controls systems: Helps remedy control system issues. Reviews programming logic and retro-commissions equipment in the event of workstation failures. Helps eliminate the need for service calls due to programming issues and temporary downed equipment. Makes changes to BMS programming as required to improve operational efficiency.

- Performing design review and commissioning for new building controls systems: Serves as a field commissioning engineer in charge of managing point-to-point-checks, pre-functional testing, and functional testing of new controls systems at multiple facilities.

- Tracking energy usage and energy cost savings associated with new and upgraded building controls systems: Helps assess and track energy usage and cost savings associated with upgraded building controls systems.

- Supports effective management of controls contracts: Ensures proper vetting of solutions offered by controls contractors. Provides quality control of network architecture. Ensures contractor responsiveness.

- Managing controls documentation: Maintains a living configuration management matrix of all configurable items for building management systems. Helps keep accurate records of all control points, point calibration dates, and performance metrics. Helps consolidate all controls drawings for projects into a single database. Helps keep records of all back-up programs.

- Helping integrate controls into daily operations: Supports design, construction, programming, and integration of new control systems and repair of existing control systems in collaboration with DSNY trades and IT.

- Supporting Load Management and Demand Response participation: Provides technical, analytical, and administrative support to advance DSNY’s participation in the Demand Response and Load Management Programs. Facilitates the enrollment of new facilities in the programs and support current facilities’ participation and performance. Sets up trending for all critical control points and analyzes data associated with the points. Presents analysis findings to support DSNY’s Load Management efforts and identify and prioritize BMS funding requests. Serves as the point person for new LM efforts underway at DSNY, collaborating closely with staff at DEM.

- Providing other necessary support to the DSNY Energy Team: As needed, supports the DSNY Energy Team in other areas.

To be eligible for placement in Assignment Level II, candidates other than Professional
Engineers or Registered Architects must have either:
a) A Bachelor of Architecture degree that is the first professional degree in architecture from an accredited college; or
b) 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
c) After meeting the minimum qualification requirements, a master’s degree in any of the fields described in “1” above.
d) After meeting the minimum qualification requirements, one (1) additional year of experience as described in “4” above;

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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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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.

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.