Job Description

Operations Planner, Street Furniture Unit

Transportation Planning and Management (TPM) is responsible for the safe, efficient, and environmentally responsible movement of people and goods on the City's streets, supporting the larger goals of economic and social vitality for people living, working, and doing business in New York City. The Division's responsibilities include planning, street design, technical analysis, signs, transit development, freight mobility and markings, ensuring the safety of motor vehicle occupants, pedestrians, and cyclists. The Office of Livable Streets (OLS) is tasked with prioritizing strategic planning, community engagement, research, policy, design, implementation, and long-term management. Their goal is to create streets that are livable, supporting safety, accessibility, inclusion, resiliency, active modes, community cohesion, and economic vitality citywide. Additionally, they aim to enhance New York City's pedestrian, bicycle, and micromobility networks, providing comfortable, connected, green, and reliable transportation options across the five boroughs. They place special emphasis on Priority Investment Areas, mode shift, and reimagining streets. The office also develops innovative new programs, design typologies, project delivery, and analysis tools to meet the demands of a rapidly changing population with evolving needs and technologies. The Street Furniture Unit (SFU) within the Office of Livable Streets (OLS) designs, installs and maintains benches, leaning bars, bike racks, bike corrals, pedestrian wayfinding signs and other assets throughout New York City. SFU designs, installs and maintains benches, leaning bars, bike racks, bike corrals, pedestrian wayfinding signs and other assets throughout New York City to support transit, biking and walking and to create public spaces. The selected candidates will learn and practice standard field work procedures, data analysis, data management, mapping, and day-to-day operations of a city agency. SFU is seeking an Operations Planner to aid in asset management of assets such as planters, blocks, bollards and barriers. The candidate will report to the SFU's Senior Operations Manager and help with community engagement, data entry, data management, mapping and creating/maintaining of standards, guidelines and drawings. The candidate will manage asset relocations; review and update CAD drawings to update roadway facilities removed during construction, repaving and events; inventory and track all planters, bollards, barriers and blocks installed citywide; review, monitor, inspect and enter data for these assets located on public streets; hang signs on assets for removal; take measurements on site and record site conditions digitally; coordinate with internal units, contractors and community organizations such as BIDs; strategize and develop tracking systems, drawing standards, and guidelines; take and archive photographs; and enter field data into databases, maps, and construction drawings. Skills needed include site planning, design, critical thinking, time management and internal and community coordination. Candidates must be comfortable working in the office, at agency field facilities citywide, outdoors in all weather, walking, using transit or bicycle for field work.

The Department of Transportation's (DOT) mission is to provide for the safe, efficient, and environmentally responsible movement of people and goods in the City of New York and to maintain and enhance the transportation infrastructure crucial to the economic vitality and quality of life of our primary customers, City residents. DOT is an equal opportunity employer, committed to recruiting and maintaining a diverse workforce in an open and inclusive environment.

Qualifications

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and two years of experience in community work or community centered activities in an area related to the duties described above; or 2. High school graduation or equivalent and six years of experience in community work or community centered activities in an area related to the duties as described above; or 3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to 1 or 2 above. However, all candidates must have at least one year of experience as described in 1 above.

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.

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