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DEPT OF HEALTH/MENTAL HYGIENE
Job Posting Notice
# of Positions: 1
Job ID:
226821
Business Title:
Director of Office of Building Water Supply Oversight, Bureau of Environmental
Sciences and Engineering
Civil Service Title:
HEALTH SERVICES MANAGER
Title Code No:
10069
Job Category:
Health
Career Level:
Manager
Proposed Salary Range:
$ 58,675.00 - $156,793.00 (Annual)
Work Location:
125 Worth Street, Nyc
Division/Work Unit:
Public Health Engineering
Level: M2
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Job Description
The Bureau of Environmental Sciences and Engineering (ESE) is looking to hire a Director for the
newly created Office of Building Water Supply Oversight (OBWSO). The Director will be responsible
for carrying out the goals of the program which will be to prevent illness caused by poorly maintained
and managed building water supply and distribution systems in more than 10,000 New York City
buildings. As Director the candidate will oversee a program that will be responsible for implementing
the first proactive inspection program for cooling towers in the United States; educating building
owners and managers in best practices for managing water tanks, cooling towers, evaporative
condensers, internal plumbing, and waste water systems implementing and evaluating regulatory
strategies to identify and mitigate risk and leading environmental investigations and mitigation efforts
in response to legionellae outbreaks.
Proposed Duties
• Ensure ongoing local programmatic excellence, rigorous program evaluation and consistent quality
of finance and administration, fundraising, communications, and systems; recommend timelines and
resources needed to achieve the strategic goals.
• Lead, coach, develop and retain high-performance senior management team, and regularly evaluate
program components so as to measure successes than can be effectively communicated to senior
management, elected officials and the other constituents.
• Formulate, manage and evaluate all of the OBWSO policies and procedures.
• Ensure effective systems to track scaling progress; Lead development of research agenda related to
the oversight of building water; supply safety.
• Collaborate with City and State agencies and other experts to advance the mission of OBWSO.
• Oversee OBWSO's budget administration and hiring.
• Represent the agency in meetings and conferences related to OBSWOs mission
Minimum Qual Requirements
1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and five years of full-time professional
satisfactory experience acquired within the last fifteen years, in a health services setting such as a
laboratory, hospital, or other patient care facility, or in a public health, environmental health, or mental
hygiene program, at least 18 months of which must have been in a managerial capacity, consisting of
managerial experience clearly demonstrating the ability to perform difficult and responsible managerial
work, requiring independent decision-making concerning program management, planning, allocation
of resources, and the scheduling and assignment of work
2. Education and/or experience equivalent to "1" above. Education may be substituted for experience
on the basis that each 30 graduate semester credits from an accredited college in hospital
administration, public health, public administration, business administration, management or
administration can be substituted for one year of non-managerial experience up to a maximum of 60
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