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ONLY PERMANENT EMPLOYEES IN THE TITLE AND THOSE THAT ARE REACHABLE ON THE STAFF ANALYST TRAINEE CIVIL SERVICE LIST/ EXAM NO.8031 ARE ELIGIBLE TO APPLY.

Established in 1805, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (the NYC Health Department) is the oldest and largest health department in the country. Our mission is to protect and improve the health of all New Yorkers, in service of a vision of a city in which all New Yorkers can realize their full health potential, regardless of who they are, how old they are, where they are from, or where they live.

As a world-renowned public health agency with a history of building transformative public health programming and infrastructure, innovating in science and scholarship to advance public health knowledge, and responding to urgent public health crises from New York City’s yellow fever outbreak in 1822, to the COVID-19 pandemic we are a hub for public health innovation, expertise, and programs, and services. We serve as the population health strategist, and policy, and planning authority for the City of New York, while also having a vast impact on national and international public policy, including programs and services focused on food and nutrition, anti-tobacco support, chronic disease prevention, HIV/AIDS treatment, family and child health, environmental health, mental health, and racial and social justice work, among others.

Our Agency’s five strategic priorities, building off a recently completed strategic planning process emerging from the COVID-19 emergency, are:

1) To re-envision how the Health Department prepares for and responds to health emergencies, with a focus on building a “response-ready” organization, with faster decision-making, transparent public communications, and stronger surveillance and bridges to healthcare systems 2) Address and prevent chronic and diet-related disease, including addressing rising rates of childhood obesity and the impact of diabetes, and transforming our food systems to improve nutrition and enhance access to healthy foods

3) Address the second pandemic of mental illness including: reducing overdose deaths, strengthening our youth mental health systems, and supporting people with serious mental illness

4) Reduce black maternal mortality and make New York a model city for women’s health

5) Mobilize against and combat the health impacts of climate change

Our 7,000-plus team members bring extraordinary diversity to the work of public health. True to our value of equity as a foundational element of all our work, and a critical foundation to achieving population health impact in New York City, the NYC Health Department has been a leader in recognizing and dismantling racism’s impacts on the health of New Yorkers and beyond. In 2021, the NYC Board of Health declared racism as a public health crisis. With commitment to advance anti-racist public health practices that dismantle systems that perpetuate inequitable power, opportunity and access, the NYC Health Department continues to work in and with communities and community organizations to increase their access to health services and decrease avoidable health outcomes.

The Transportation and Fleet Services unit, under the Division of Administration and Bureau of Facilities Planning & Administrative Services, manages all fleet related matters for the Agency. The unit works collaboratively with our Glendale distribution warehouse and all agency staff for the appropriate transport of supplies, equipment, agency inventory, as well as performing program relocations and salvage removals. Transportation and Fleet services is responsible for determining and monitoring agency vehicle assignment and use, works with approved agency drivers and fleet coordinators, liaises with and reports to DCAS Fleet, maintains the condition of the agency fleet by ensuring timely preventive maintenance, inspections, recalls, repairs, telematic performance, accident prevention and reporting, etc.

Proposed Duties:

Under general direction, with wide latitude for independent initiative and judgment, perform an array of varied tasks such as conducting weekly field visits to various parking facilities throughout the five (5) boroughs to confirm vehicle locations and conditions, conduct surveys of DOHMH owned locations (currently 36) to determine appropriate sites for electric vehicle charging stations, troubleshoot issues with vehicles in the field experiencing telematic challenges and coordinating with program staff and DCAS for repairs or replacements; monitor and maintain vehicle records such as registration and licensure of vehicles and other assignments as deemed necessary by the Director.

• Schedule servicing, repairs and storage of vehicles, update and maintain master Transportation spreadsheet.

• Select and dispatch suitable motor equipment to various jobs; prepare trip instructions and designate routes to be followed.

• Schedule personnel to operate vehicles and equipment.

• Initiate requisitions for needed supplies and automotive servicing equipment; works with vendors to obtain servicing, repairs, equipment and materials.

• Keep records on matters such as staff attendance, daily consumption of gasoline and oil, and times of departure and arrival of motor vehicles.

• Must be willing to work in outside environments, which may include inclement weather. Occasionally may be required to work outside of regularly scheduled hours, conducting surveys, weekly field visits, as necessary.

Qualifications

A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college.

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.