The Agency You’ll Join:

The New York City Mayor’s Office is responsible for overseeing city services throughout the five boroughs, coordinating public agencies and departments, and managing public property. The administration is leading the fight in making the city more affordable, reducing inequality, improving public safety, ensuring delivery of efficient and effective services, and working to make New York City’s economy stronger. We value leadership, transparency, fairness, and efficiency as we actively seek diverse talents from various sectors to join our team. For current job opportunities, visit our careers page.

The Team You’ll Work With:

The NYC Mayor’s Office of Environmental Remediation (OER) designs and implements the City’s brownfield cleanup and redevelopment initiatives. Foremost among these is the NYC Voluntary Cleanup Program (NYC VCP), the nation’s only municipally-run cleanup program, which offers remedial oversight and liability protection to property owners and developers of over 250 sites each year. Brownfields are sites where redevelopment is complicated by the presence of contamination, including from prior site uses, historic fill, or chemical spills. The office manages the NYC Clean Soil Bank, a municipally-run soil exchange that directs clean soil from construction sites to projects across the city that need it. OER’s clean soil stockpile provides NYC construction projects with no cost disposal of clean soil and provides clean soil to City and private projects as well as community gardens at no cost.

OER also supports Community Brownfield Planning Areas and administers the Brownfield Incentive Grant (BIG) program, which provides funding for the investigation and cleanup of brownfield sites as well as grants to community-based organizations conducting planning around brownfields. Additional OER programs and initiatives include the E-Designation Program for hazardous materials, air quality, and noise; Green Property Certification; and community engagement activities. To learn more about OER, please visit www.nyc.gov/oer.

About You:

OER seeks a Senior Project Manager to supervise and perform professional scientific work in environmental engineering and geology on project sites under the E-Designation and City’s Voluntary Cleanup program.

The Problems You’ll Solve:

- Reporting to the Director, manage individual development projects which includes the review and approval of plans, site investigation reports, remedial action work plans and final remedial action reports on a schedule prepared by a development team and their environmental consultant. A senior project manager ensures that a project will meet environmental requirements on a development team’s project schedule.

- Implement applicable laws and regulations and policy to meet Mayor’s Office and PlaNYC strategic environmental, remedial and engineering goals.

- Become fluent in all OER Environmental Quality programs (NYC VCP, E-Designation Hazmat, Noise and Air) and other OER Programs including JumpStart, BIG Grants, Brownfield Partnership, Green Team, Green Property Certification, SPEED, EPIC, Clean Soil Bank, and be prepared to provide assistance and answer questions from public.

- Lead communications with development teams, the general public, elected officials, the press and other city agencies in accordance with OER and Mayor’s Office policies.

- Oversee and review work products produced by Project Managers, create and present learning or training opportunities for Project Managers on specialized complex environmental engineering projects.

- Inspect, and participate in field sampling and remediation, and oversee engineering activities.

- Review and oversee the Site Management Plans for projects. Report and recommend changes based on continual review of inspection findings. Signs and seals engineering and other official documents.

- Prepare original proposals and complex reports regarding unique environmental engineering and remediation matters.

- Maintains databases and archives established by OER management for oversight of programs.

*** Please note that Environmental Engineer is a competitive class role, which has a required exam. The application period for the Environmental Engineer exam is now open, and the deadline to submit your filing is June 23, 2026. For further details please visit https://www.nyc.gov/site/dcas/employment/exam-schedules-open-competitive-exams.page http.

If you have a disability and qualify for a competitive class role, you may be exempt from taking the exam under the 55-a Program. For more information about the 55-a Program please visit https://www.nyc.gov/site/dcas/employment/55-a-program.page ****

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1. A valid New York State Professional Engineer License and four years of full-time experience in environmental engineering. A master's degree in environmental engineering from an accredited college will be accepted as equivalent to one year of the
full-time experience in environmental engineering.

SPECIAL NOTE:
In addition to above qualification requirements, to be eligible for placement in Assignment Level II or III, individuals must have at least one year within the last three years of experience as a major contributor or a project leader on a complex project requiring additional and specific expertise in the disciplines needed to design or construct the project.

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.