Circular Economy Program Manager

DEPT OF ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

The NYC Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) seeks a Circular Economy Program Manager to guide energy initiatives within the Energy Office, focusing on biogas projects, waste recovery, and energy efficiency across DEP facilities.

You will coordinate with DEP bureaus and contractors, translate concepts into executable plans, and help set policy and procurement strategies to maximize resource recovery and sustainability for New York City.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in architecture or related field and four years energy generation or conservation experience, with at least one year in an administrative, managerial, or executive capacity.
• Associate degree with six years of energy generation or conservation experience, including one year in admin/management.
• High school diploma with related experience in energy or conservation fields.

Responsibilities

• Manage ongoing energy projects by coordinating with DEP bureaus, other City agencies, and contractors; oversee design reviews and site visits; support senior leadership with input for decision‑making.
• Translate project concepts from ideation to execution by developing partnership models, contractual terms, and revenue‑sharing arrangements; coordinate with stakeholders to ensure timely deployment; track and report progress.
• Support procurement, design, and policy‑setting to influence decision‑making toward energy and resource efficiency; share energy and resource recovery best practices; identify candidates for training.
• Identify energy conservation opportunities and potential energy efficiency projects in wastewater conveyance, treatment, building systems, and other equipment; contribute to scopes of work and cost estimates; support M&V efforts.
• Provide project management assistance, including developing and maintaining project plans, reviewing milestones, and ensuring progress through monitoring.
• Track energy and resource recovery data for decision making, reporting and compliance; prepare, edit, and present reports and datasets.
• Prepare high‑quality reports, presentations, articles, meetings, and other energy and resource recovery communications.

Skills

Project management

Data reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree in architecture or related field; biology; building science; chemistry; construction management; energy management; engineering or engineering technology; environmental science; facilities management; physics

Associate degree or 60 credits in relevant disciplines

High school diploma

Job description

The NYC Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) enriches the environment and protects public health for all New Yorkers by providing 1.1 billion gallons of high-quality drinking water, managing wastewater and stormwater, 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's water supply system is comprised of 19 reservoirs and 3 controlled lakes throughout the system’s 2,000 square mile watershed that extends 125 miles north and west of the City.

The Office of Energy and Resource Recovery Programs (Energy Office) is charged with plotting the course for DEP to meet its energy and carbon neutrality goals, as well as maximizing resource recovery. The Energy Office also provides energy and performance tracking, program assessment, scientific research, emergency planning and internal auditing services to DEP's operating bureaus.

The Circular Economy Program Manager will provide technical and project management support to facility staff on Energy Office initiatives, including but not limited to: Biogas-to-Grid, Co-digestion, biogas beneficial use, and sewer and effluent heat recovery. The role will also focus on developing a pipeline of projects aimed at maximizing resource recovery and advancing the principles of a circular economy. Specific responsibilities will include:

• Manage ongoing energy projects by coordinating with DEP operating bureaus, other City agencies, and contractors; overseeing design reviews, site visits, and approval processes; and supporting senior leadership with technical and operational input for decision‑making.
• Translate project concepts from ideation to execution by developing partnership models, contractual terms, and revenue‑sharing arrangements, and by coordinating with stakeholders to ensure timely deployment. Track and report on project progress internally and with stakeholder bureaus.
• Support and advise the Bureau throughout procurement, design, and policy‑setting to influence decision‑making processes toward energy and resource efficiency. Share energy and resource recovery best practices. Identify employee candidates for energy and resource recovery training.
• Identify energy conservation opportunities and potential energy efficiency projects associated with wastewater conveyance, treatment processes, building systems, and other equipment. Contribute to project scopes of work and cost estimates. Support measurement and verification efforts.
• Provide project management assistance, including developing and maintaining project plans and other documents, managing and coordinating project elements, reviewing milestones, and ensuring efficient progress on implementation through consistent monitoring of progress of initiatives and commitments.
• Track and provide energy and resource recovery data needed for decision making, reporting and compliance purposes. Prepare, edit, proofread, and present high‑quality reports, presentations, articles, meetings, correspondence, documents, reports and other energy and resource recovery communication materials and datasets.

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Minimum Qualifications

1) A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university in architecture or architectural technology; biology; building science; chemistry; construction management; energy management; engineering or engineering technology; environmental science; facilities management; physics; or a related field, and 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 at facilities to generate clean energy or reduce energy usage, one (1) year of which must have been in an administrative, managerial, or executive capacity; or

2) An associate degree or sixty (60) semester credits in any of the disciplines described in “1” above from an accredited college or university, and six (6) years of satisfactory full-time experience as described in “1” above including one (1) year in an administrative, managerial, or executive capacity; or

3) A four (4) year high school