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Program Executive (Engineering-Structural)

City of New York

New York, NYFull-time$62–118K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today

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At a glance

Compensation
$62–118K/yr
Location
New York, NY
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

New York State PE License

Job overview

The Program Executive works with the Director of Front-End Planning to clarify project initiation through planning and review of client needs and existing structural conditions, producing Front-End Planning Reports. The role conducts structural surveys and client-agency interviews, coordinates with cost estimators, risk analysts, and time schedulers, and collaborates with City agencies and DDC professionals on structural reports, scope development, funding and risk analysis, and scheduling.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Structural SurveysClient InterviewsScope DevelopmentFunding AnalysisRisk AnalysisScheduling

Qualifications

New York State PE License6 Years Engineering or Plan Examining Experience2 Years Executive, Managerial or Administrative ExperiencePermanent Administrative Engineer or Reachable on Listed Exam

Full job description

Job Description

Hours: Full-Time – 35 Hours

Work Location: 30-30 Thomson Avenue, LIC, NY 11101

Only candidates who are permanent in the Administrative Engineer title or those who are reachable on the DDC promotional list (exam #5564), or the open-competitive list (exam #5163) may apply. Please indicate a copy of your Notice of Result card or indicate if you are already permanent in the title. If you do not meet the previously mentioned civil service criteria, you will not be considered for an interview.

The Program Executive will work with the Director of Front-End Planning to bring clarity to the project initiation process through well-developed planning and review of client needs and existing structural conditions, resulting in the creation of Front-End Planning Reports. Duties also include conducting structural surveys and interviews with client agencies, and coordinating with cost estimators, risk analysts, and time schedulers. In addition, collaborate with City agencies and DDC professionals to perform existing conditions structural reports, scope development and verification, funding analysis, risk analysis, and scheduling. The goal is to perform a broad-minded analysis and develop a comprehensive understanding of the capital structural needs of each client agency project to facilitate successful delivery in a safe, expeditious, and cost-effective manner, while maintaining the highest degree of architectural, engineering, and construction quality.

Educational credentials must be from a U.S. Department of Education-recognized accredited institution. Credentials from foreign institutions require independent equivalency verification from an approved evaluation service. A list of providers (fees apply) is available at: https://www.nyc.gov/assets/dcas/downloads/pdf/employment/nyc-dcas-foreign-education-evaluation-guide.pdf.

All applicants, including City Employees:

Please go to NYC Government Jobs | Explore Careers | City of New York, go to Search for Open Jobs, and type in the Job ID # listed above. Submit job application as prompted. Do not apply via Employee Self-Service (ESS), e-mail, mail, or fax your resume to DDC directly.

ADM ENGINEER (NON MGRL) - 1001A

Qualifications

  1. A valid New York State License as a Professional Engineer.

  2. Six (6) years of full-time satisfactory experience in chemical engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering, environmental engineering, mechanical engineering, or plan examining work, at least two (2) years of which must have been in an executive, managerial, or administrative capacity.

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.

Salary Min: $ 62,407.00

Salary Max: $117,670.00

How this job compares

Set against the 552 open Structural Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$62–118K/yr
  • New York median$101–142K/yr28 salary ranges
  • US median$110–171K/yr171 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $90K, is 28% below the New York median midpoint ($126K) — in the lowest quarter of Structural Engineering salary ranges in New York.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 64 open Structural Engineering jobs in New York and 552 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in New York
Experience
This posting asks for at least 6 years of experience; Structural Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for 8 years at the median (299 postings).
Education
290 of the 552 open Structural Engineering jobs (53%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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