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About the job

Hours: Full-Time – 35 Hours Work Location: 30-30 Thomson Avenue, LIC, NY 11101 All interested candidates who meet the minimum qualification requirements cited below are encouraged to apply. Please indicate in your resume if you are a current City employee who is serving in the Civil Engineer title in a permanent capacity. The Civil Engineer title promotional exam #7515 and the open-competitive exam #7020 will open for filing beginning December 2, 2026. For more information and to apply, please visit https://a856-exams.nyc.gov/OASysWeb/exams. The Program Executive will work with the Director of Front-End Planning to bring clarity to the project initiation process through well-developed planning and review of client needs and existing structural conditions, resulting in the creation of Front-End Planning Reports. Duties also include conducting structural surveys and interviews with client agencies, and coordinating with cost estimators, risk analysts, and time schedulers. In addition, collaborate with City agencies and DDC professionals to perform existing conditions structural reports, scope development and verification, funding analysis, risk analysis, and scheduling. The goal is to perform a broad-minded analysis and develop a comprehensive understanding of the capital structural needs of each client agency project to facilitate successful delivery in a safe, expeditious, and cost-effective manner, while maintaining the highest degree of architectural, engineering, and construction quality. Educational credentials must be from a U.S. Department of Education-recognized accredited institution. Credentials from foreign institutions require independent equivalency verification from an approved evaluation service. A list of providers (fees apply) is available at: https://www.nyc.gov/assets/dcas/downloads/pdf/employment/nyc-dcas-foreign-education-evaluation-guide.pdf. All applicants, including City Employees: Please go to NYC Government Jobs Explore Careers City of New York, go to Search for Open Jobs, and type in the Job ID # listed above. Submit job application as prompted. Do not apply via Employee Self-Service (ESS), e-mail, mail, or fax your resume to DDC directly.