City Research Scientist - Waste Management Dept.

Job Description

Conduct and oversee the Individual Waste Management Action Plans, which entail the following tasks
When planning each year’s federally mandated site visits, gather feedback about prior year’s plans and schedules from Senior Operations Analysts. Review waste issues to pick a focus for each year’s plans so that Waste Management can better understand the focus issue and how to improve it. Schedule 121 site visits, one per NYCHA consolidation per year. Create a template document for the corresponding 121 reports based on the site visits. Create a Microsoft Form survey to be used during site visits. Implement Microsoft Power Automate automations to continuously and automatically upload survey responses to a SharePoint List and Excel Spreadsheet. Create an image upload survey in Microsoft Form. Implement Microsoft Power Automate automations to continuously and automatically upload image links to a SharePoint List. Print documents and flyers that are required to be handed out at each site meeting. Track site visit survey submissions to ensure compliance with Senior Operations Analysts’ site visit tasks. Create GIS shapefiles of waste compound boundaries based on information gathered from property management feedback and site visits. Update the GIS locations of NYCHA’s waste assets and write Python code to export a spreadsheet of the assets in relation to waste compound boundaries. Set up a shared ArcGIS Online map to upload waste issue points. Type up paper-based attendance sheets to track attendees at all meetings and allow directors to text search the names of meeting attendees. Write computer code in Python to iterate through every housing consolidation GIS shapefile and produce a PDF and PNG of asset maps for each consolidation and a PNG cover image for their respective reports. Write code in R to create a waste flow diagram and waste flow table depicting the proper disposal instructions for each development at each consolidation. Format, proofread, and edit all 121 reports. Consult with Department of Communications, Law Department, and Federal Monitor to ensure reports contain necessary and approved information.

Deliver monthly DSNY bulk reports
Obtain Maximo data on every bulk dump ticket used across all NYCHA developments by communicating with NYCHA’s borough personnel. Track how many tickets are used, unused, transferred, and lost each month. Provide the information to the NYC Department of Sanitation. Reconcile the number of bulk pickups with vendor invoices to assist with Waste Management’s budgetary needs.

Hire and oversee interns
Write job descriptions, interview candidates, onboard chosen candidates, assign weekly tasks to interns, and aid interns when they need assistance. Oversee progress on the interns’ projects such as newsletters; any necessary interdepartmental communications between Waste Management, Pest, and Asset and Capital Management; waste asset catalogs, which are compilations of Oracle HA numbers and prices for maintenance items frequently used by caretaker staff; and Individual Waste Management Action Plan notetaking.

Reform the Rear Loader Program
Write Python code to analyze GPS locations of Waste Management’s garbage trucks to find where the trucks are stopping and ensure that trucks are following their assigned routes to NYCHA developments. Reformat the daily Microsoft Form survey that drivers fill out to capture information on dump tickets, including material tonnage. Combine GPS data with dump ticket tonnage to determine how much material and which types of material are being generated at developments in order to inform NYCHA’s waste operations and NY State’s Zero Waste Report.

Coordinate with Asset and Capital Management
Attend meetings with Asset and Capital Management to inform them of Waste Management’s needs during waste compound redesigns.

Coordinate with the Federal Monitor
Attend meetings with the Federal Monitor to ensure compliance with directives to improve or implement procedures requested by the Federal Monitor.

Coordinate with various rat reduction initiatives
Attend rat related meetings such as those held by the Rat Czar and track 2-yard-dumpster locations in ArcGIS to monitor where pest mitigation tools are being used.

Additional Information
1. NYCHA employees applying for promotional, title or level change opportunities must have served a period of one year at current location and in current title and level (if applicable).
2. NYCHA residents are encouraged to apply.

NYCHA provides benefits that include a choice of medical coverage plans, deferred compensation plans and a defined pension benefit plan as a member of the New York City Employees Retirement System (NYCERS).

Please read this posting carefully to make certain you meet the qualification requirements before applying to this position.

CITY RESEARCH SCIENTIST - 21744

Qualifications

1. For Assignment Level I (only physical, biological and environmental sciences and public health) A master's degree from an accredited college or university with a specialization in an appropriate field of physical, biological or environmental science or in public health.
To be appointed to Assignment Level II and above, candidates must have:
1. A doctorate degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical, biological, environmental or social science and one year of full-time experience in a responsible supervisory, administrative or research capacity in the appropriate field of specialization; or
2. A master's degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical, biological, environmental or social science and three years of responsible full-time research experience in the appropriate field of specialization; or
3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to "1" or "2" above. However, all candidates must have at least a master's degree in an appropriate field of specialization and at least two years of experience described in "2" above. Two years as a City Research Scientist Level I can be substituted for the experience required in "1" and "2" above.

NOTE:
Probationary Period
Appointments to this position are subject to a minimum probationary period of one year.

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.