Job Information
City of New York Engineering Auditor for the Engineering Audit Division in New York, New York
Job Description
About the Agency:
The New York City Department of Housing Preservation Development (HPD) promotes quality and affordability in the city's housing, and diversity and strength in the city’s neighborhoods because every New Yorker deserves a safe, affordable place to live in a neighborhood they love.
We maintain building and resident safety and health
We create opportunities for New Yorkers through housing affordability
We engage New Yorkers to build and sustain neighborhood strength and diversity.
HPD is entrusted with fulfilling these objectives through the goals and strategies of “Housing Our Neighbors: A Blueprint for Housing and Homelessness,” Mayor Adams’ comprehensive housing framework. To support this important work, the administration has committed $5 billion in new capital funding, bringing the 10-year planned investment in housing to $22 billion the largest in the city’s history. This investment, coupled with a commitment to reduce administrative and regulatory barriers, is a multi-pronged strategy to tackle New York City’s complex housing crisis, by addressing homelessness and housing instability, promoting economic stability and mobility, increasing homeownership opportunities, improving health and safety, and increasing opportunities for equitable growth.
Your Team:
The Division of Economic Opportunity and Regulatory Compliance (EORC) supports HPDs mission by reviewing the integrity of applicants seeking to work on HPD-supported projects and ensuring contractors comply with applicable labor and employment obligations. The division also assists HPD in implementing and enforcing socioeconomic diversity and inclusion requirements, and related programs, for procurement and development projects receiving financial assistance from the Agency. The Engineering Audit Division is an independent audit function pursuant to the Comptroller’s Directive 7 that is tasked with ensuring that contractors or vendors of Agency procured construction-related service contracts have fulfilled their contractual obligations, and that the City has received appropriate value for the payment requested under the terms of the contract. The unit enforces contract compliance through invoice review, field inspections, and the issuance of contract cuts or payment rejections in the event of noncompliance.
The Office of Economic Opportunity and Regulatory Compliance is composed of 5 divisions:
Labor Monitoring Unit (LMU)
Integrity Review Unit (IRU)
Engineering Audit Division (EAD)
System Administration & Engagement Services (SAES)
Economic Opportunity & Inclusionary Program (EOIP)
Your Impact:
As an Engineering Auditor within the Engineering Audit Division of the Division of Economic Opportunity and Regulatory Compliance, your role will be to review invoices, change order requests, and related documents, and conduct field inspections to ensure that contractors or vendors of Agency procured construction-related service contracts have fulfilled their contractual obligations under the terms of the contract.
Your Role and Responsibilities:
As an Engineering Auditor/Construction Project Manager (CPM) your role will include, but not be limited to the following responsibilities:
Working closely with a team of engineering auditors;
Regularly inspecting agency procured construction contracts to ensure compliance with required work scopes and obligations;
Ensure that completed construction is in compliance with applicable standards;
Reviewing and approving contractors’ requisitions for payment and change orders;
Prepare audit findings including any deficiencies in contractor performance or related obligations;
Perform field inspections to verify contractor work performance;
Attending meetings pertaining to EAD as requested.
Qualifications
A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent approved by a State’s Department of Education or a recognized accrediting organization, and five years of full-time satisfactory experience managing and/or inspecting one or more construction projects which must have a total cost of at least $300,000 for each of the five years of the required experience; or
One year of the experience as described in “1” above and a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university, accredited by regional, national, professional or specialized agencies recognized as accrediting bodies by the U. S. Secretary of Education and by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA), in engineering, engineering technology, architecture, architectural technology, landscape architecture, construction, construction technology, or construction management; or
One year of the experience as described in “1” above and a valid license as a professional engineer, registered architect, or registered landscape architect, issued by a board of examining engineers, architects, or landscape architects duly established and qualified pursuant to the laws of any state or territory of the United States; or
A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent approved by a State's Department of Education or a recognized accrediting organization, and a combination of at least two years of experience as described in “1” above and the education as described in “2” above to equal a total of five years of education and experience. Matriculation in an undergraduate college degree program as described in “2” above may be substituted for experience on the basis of 30 semester credits for one year of satisfactory full-time experience up to a maximum of three years of experience.
Note: Candidates must specify for each construction project they worked on: a description of the construction project, the time period they worked on the construction project, and the type of work they performed. Candidates must also specify the money allotted for the project.
Driver License Requirement: At the time of appointment to this position, you must have a motor vehicle driver license valid in the State of New York. If you have moving violations, license suspension or an accident record, you may be disqualified. This license must be maintained for the duration of your employment.
For Assignment to Level II, In addition to meeting the "Qualification Requirements" above, candidates must have one additional year of satisfactory full-time experience working in Assignment Level I; or one additional year of satisfactory full-time experience as described in "1" above.
For Assignment to Level III, in addition to meeting the Qualification Requirements for Construction Project Manager, candidates must have two additional years of satisfactory full-time experience working in Construction Project Manager Assignment Level I and II; or two additional years of satisfactory full-time experience as described in question "1" above and possess a motor vehicle driver license valid in the State of New York which must be maintained for the duration of employment noting that if you have moving violations, license suspension or an accident record, you may be disqualified.
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.
