City Of New York

Executive Director of Construction Management - BBJ and OTxHU

City Of New York$120K — $150K *
Real Estate & Construction
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or significant work experience in corrections or similar fields.
  • Minimum of four years of relevant full-time experience, including a year in a supervisory role.
  • Alternative qualifications: high school diploma with six years of experience in similar roles.
  • Experience in correctional facilities that can include time served as an inmate, up to two years.
  • Possession of a relevant graduate degree may substitute for part of the experience requirement.

Responsibilities

  • Direct field-level construction execution for BBJ and OTxHU programs across active facilities.
  • Serve as a senior technical authority for mechanical, electrical, and related construction scopes.
  • Review contractor and consultant submissions for compliance and quality assurance.
  • Coordinate with various stakeholders to resolve conflicts and technical issues on site.
  • Manage compliance with NYC and other regulatory entities for licenses and inspections.
  • Monitor construction activities for operational and safety alignment.
  • Lead risk identification and mitigation, supporting recovery plans for delays.
  • Prepare executive-level reports and risk assessments for departmental leadership.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to influence and oversee complex construction in sensitive environments.
  • Leadership role with high engagement across various agencies and stakeholders.
  • Chance to mentor and provide technical guidance to up-and-coming professionals.
  • Direct involvement in improving healthcare infrastructure within correctional facilities.
Full Job Description
The Department seeks an Executive Director of Construction Management to support the Borough-Based Jails (BBJ) Program and the Outposted Therapeutic Housing Unit (OTxHU) healthcare infrastructure portfolio. Reporting to executive leadership and exercising wide latitude for independent judgment, the selected candidate will direct field-level construction execution across complex correctional, healthcare, institutional, mechanical, electrical, controls, life-safety, and high-voltage construction scopes.

This position will serve as a senior technical and operational authority for construction execution across active and planned DOC locations, including work performed in occupied correctional facilities, operating institutional environments, and acute-care hospital settings. The Executive Director will identify construction risk, coordinate multi-agency requirements, support schedule recovery, review technical submissions, and ensure construction activity aligns with operational, safety, compliance, and programmatic priorities.

Responsibilities
-Direct field-level construction execution across the BBJ program and OTxHU portfolio, including multi-site and multi-phase work performed in active or occupied facilities.
-Serve as a senior technical resource for mechanical, electrical, building management controls, life-safety, standby power, high-voltage, detention electronics, and related construction scopes.
-Review and assess contractor and consultant submissions, including MEP, structural, curtain wall, VFD, switchgear, controls, commissioning, and detention security electronics documentation.
-Coordinate with DOC leadership, construction teams, consultants, contractors, and external stakeholders to resolve field conditions, sequencing conflicts, technical issues, permitting matters, and project delivery risks.
-Support licensing, permitting, inspection, and compliance coordination with NYC DOB, FDNY, DOHMH, DEP, OMB, DCAS, DDC, BOC, SCOC, and other oversight or partner entities.
-Monitor construction activity for alignment with operational requirements, life-safety obligations, healthcare infrastructure requirements, correctional security considerations, and court-ordered compliance priorities.
-Lead construction risk identification and mitigation, track critical path issues, elevate barriers, and support schedule recovery plans for at-risk packages.
-Prepare executive-level briefings, field reports, risk summaries, technical assessments, and recommendations for departmental leadership.
-Provide technical guidance and mentorship to construction management, resident engineering, assistant resident engineering, and field staff assigned to the portfolio.
-Interface with executive-level entities within DOC and outside agencies as directed.

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Qualification Requirements
1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college, and four years of full-time experience in corrections, social work, psychology, law, public administration, law enforcement, or a related field providing direct services to an inmate or detention population within a correctional or related facility, at least one (1) year of which must have been in a responsible supervisory, administrative or consultative capacity; or

2. A high school diploma or evidence of having passed a high school equivalency examination and six (6) years of full-time experience as described above; or

3. Education and/or experience equivalent to "1" or "2" above. Service as an inmate in correctional or related facility may be substituted for a portion of the required experience up to a maximum of two years on a year for year basis. A graduate degree from an accredited college or university with a major in social work, psychology, law, criminal justice or public administration which includes a field placement performing duties as described above, may be substituted for up to one year of full-time experience as described in "1" above. However, all candidates must have at least two years of full-time experience as described in "1" above, at least one year of which must have been in a supervisory, administrative or consultative capacity.

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