Job Description

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 8.3 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 Office of Environmental Health and Safety (OEHS) is responsible for maintaining agency wide environmental and occupational health and safety compliance. Within OEHS, the EHS Performance Measurement & Strategic Planning Section is responsible for oversight and management of the agency’s EHS Audit Program, and providing support to Bureau of Water Supply’s Process Safety Management and Risk Management programs. The unit also oversees strategic plan development initiatives for performance measurement systems that integrate leading indicators and EHS risk assessment factors.

OEHS seeks to hire an Administrative Public Health Sanitarian (M1) to fill the position of EHS Assessment Manager, located in Flushing, New York. The EHS Assessment Manager will be under general supervision, but with significant latitude for decision making. The EHS Assessment Manager will assist the Director of EHS Performance Measurement & Strategic Planning with general planning, directing and coordinating activities of the Section.

Specifically, the candidate selected will:

• Perform quality assurance activities, including designing and developing assessment

  protocols, identifying EHS assessment resources consistent with industry standards for

  implementation, including revising the EHS protocols and checklists to support

  assessment activities.

• Use and manage information in various EHS Management System programs and

  databases and any other relevant Agency programs and/or systems commonly used by

  OEHS for providing audit policy guidance and direction.

• Conduct technical and scientific research analysis including, but not limited to areas of

  safety management, environmental, health and safety regulatory requirements, and EHS

  assessment techniques for decision making.

• Prepare technical reports and executive summaries, memoranda and training

  presentations on EHS topics, including auditing and management system requirements.

• Perform duties as a team member or lead auditor of complex facility EHS assessments,

  pre-turnover construction projects, and targeted program audits.

• Provide technical support and guidance for the implementation of Process Safety

  Management and Risk Management program requirements.

• Provide ongoing coaching and guidance to EHS Auditors in program evaluation during

  various phases of the EHS assessment process.

• Serve in a mentoring role for EHS Auditors.

Qualifications

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university, including or supplemented by 30 credits in the eh biological and/or physical sciences, and four years of satisfactory full-time experience performing inspections to assure compliance with pertinent laws, rules and regulations governing the areas of food, drugs, and general environmental sanitation, eighteen months of which must have been in an administrative, managerial or executive capacity, or in supervising staff performing food, drug and general environmental sanitation inspectors or related work; or

2. An associate degree from an accredited college or university, including or supplemented by 12 credits in the biological and/or physical sciences, and six years of satisfactory full-time experience as described in question "1" above; or

3. Education and/or experience equivalent to "1" or "2" above. However all candidates must have at least 60 credits from an accredited college or university, including 12 credits in the biological and/or physical sciences, and at least two years of experience as a public health sanitarian, including or supplemented by eighteen months of experience in an administrative, managerial, executive or supervisory capacity as described in "1" or "2" 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.