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PERMIT COORDINATOR

City of New York

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Compensation
$66–100K/yr
Location
New York, NY
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The City of New York seeks a Permit Coordinator within the DEP’s Bureau of Engineering Design & Construction to support permitting and regulatory compliance for capital projects. The role involves permit identification, application development, environmental review documentation, agency interaction, data analysis, and database management at the Queens headquarters.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Practical Knowledge of Environmental ScienceStrong Organization and Time ManagementExcellent Interpersonal Verbal Written and Communication SkillsExperience With Permitting Environmental Review and Regulatory RequirementsExcellent Research and Analytical SkillsAbility to Meet Quick Deadlines and Provide Problem ResolutionExperience With Large DatasetsExcellent Computer Skills in MS Word, MS Access, MS Excel, and Equivalent Statistical/Data Management SoftwareAbility to Travel Citywide and Within the New York City Watershed

Qualifications

Baccalaureate Degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Architectural Technology, Construction, Construction Management, Construction Technology, Sustainable Design, Urban Planning, Urban Studies, City Planning, Transportation Planning, Business Administration, or Public AdministrationOne Year Full-Time Project Management ExperienceFour Year High School Diploma or EquivalentFive Years Project Management ExperiencePermanent Civil Service Project Manager Status

Full job description

Job Description

PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE ONLY SEEKING INTERNAL CITY EMPLOYEES FOR THIS POSITION.

The NYC Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) enriches the environment and protects public health for all New Yorkers by providing 1.1 billion gallons of high-quality drinking water, managing wastewater and storm water, and reducing air, noise, and hazardous materials pollution. DEP is the largest combined municipal water and wastewater utility in the country, with nearly 6,000 employees. DEP's water supply system is comprised of 19 reservoirs and 3 controlled lakes throughout the system’s 2,000 square mile watershed that extends 125 miles north and west of the City.

The Bureau of Engineering Design & Construction (BEDC) currently has a portfolio of capital projects valued at $35B, and another $13.6B projected over the next 10-year commitment plan. The projects BEDC implements allows DEP as a whole to continue to operate and maintain an exemplary water supply system.

The Program Management Office (PMO) within BEDC provides technical support to the project delivery teams. This includes the following sections and groups: Project Controls, Schedule Controls, Permitting Support, Cost Estimating, Business Solutions, Data Analytics, and management of the Enterprise Program Management Information System (ePMIS). The PMO uses people, processes, and tools to mitigate issues that may impact a project.

BEDC seeks to hire a Project Manager to serve as a Permit Coordinator for the Permitting section at our headquarters in Queens, NY. Under supervision, with some latitude for the exercise of independent initiative and judgment, the selected candidate will provide permitting support and coordination of regulatory and environmental review compliance programs for BEDC’s portfolio of capital projects. The selected candidate will perform permit identification and assist in the acquisition and compliance of permits throughout the project life cycle, as well as develop and review permit applications; prepare environmental review documentation; interact with regulatory agencies; provide regulatory guidance to project teams; and maintain relevant processes within the permit tracking database. The selected candidate will perform regulatory research; evaluations of scientific/technical and programmatic observations and data; accuracy reviews of technical information; data and statistical analyses using computer software and/or mathematical models to support the review and development of environmental assessment statement (EAS) and environmental permit documentation related to regulatory programs such as State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (SPDES), Public Water Supply Improvement, and Protection of Waters programs; Federal Rivers/Harbor and Clean Water Acts; the NYC Watershed Rules and Regulations; and City Environmental Quality Review (CEQR) procedures.

The Permit Coordinator’s daily activities will include quantitative and statistical analyses, data entry/database management and development, reviewing design and construction documents, plans, and contract specifications, interpretation of scientific/engineering technical reports, preparing permit applications, reviewing regulatory guidance documents and source regulations to support environmental permit compliance planning, as well as EAS and permit document review and development. Additional activities include maintaining records, report writing and answering general correspondence, preparing and conducting presentations, and attending and coordinating meetings with Bureau project teams as well as local, state and federal environmental regulatory agencies and others relevant to advancing the Permitting Section’s objectives.

The result of these activities will be presented to the Permitting Section’s Manager to obtain optimum efficiency in the utilization of resources for permit identification, acquisition, and compliance as well as environmental reviews.

** Only applicants who are permanent Civil Service Project Managers are eligible to apply to this JVN. If you do not have permanent civil service status as a Project Manager, please do not apply to this position as you will not be considered for an interview.**

PREFERRED SKILLS

  • Practical knowledge of environmental science topics

  • Strong organization and time management with ability to prioritize daily tasks

  • Excellent interpersonal, verbal, written and communication skills

  • Experience with permitting, environmental review and regulatory requirements

  • Excellent research and analytical skills

  • Ability to meet quick deadlines and provide problem resolution to project issues

  • Experience with large datasets

  • Excellent computer skills in MS Word, MS Access, MS Excel, and/or equivalent statistical/data management software

  • Ability to travel citywide and within the New York City watershed

Additional Information:

** Only applicants who are permanent Civil Service Project Managers are eligible to apply to this JVN. If you do not have permanent civil service status as a Project Manager, please do not apply to this position as you will not be considered for an interview.**

DEP is an equal opportunity employer with a strong commitment to the diversity of our organization and workforce. Your voluntary response to the NYCAPS on-line application section for referral information will assist us tremendously in our ability to track the success of our outreach and recruitment efforts. Please be sure to indicate your source of referral to this job.

All appointments are subject to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval.

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Qualifications

1.A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college in engineering, engineering technology, architecture, landscape architecture, architectural technology, construction, construction management, construction technology, sustainable design, urban planning, urban studies, city planning, transportation planning, business administration, or public administration, and one year of full-time satisfactory experience in project management work, such as planning, administering, managing, coordinating, or expediting, for engineering and/or architectural and/or landscape architectural projects; or

  1. A four year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and five years of experience as described in "1" above; or

  2. A four year high school diploma or its educational equivalent plus any combination of the experience and/or college education as described in "1" above to make up the equivalent of five years of education and experience. One year of credit will be given for each 30 semester credits of college education leading to a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college in engineering, engineering technology, architecture, landscape architecture, architectural technology, construction, construction management, construction technology, sustainable design, urban planning, urban studies, city planning, transportation planning, business administration, or public administration.

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: $ 66,330.00

Salary Max: $ 99,528.00

How this job compares

Set against the 23,231 open Project Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$66–100K/yr
  • New York median$110–159K/yr888 salary ranges
  • US median$110–178K/yr14,583 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $83K, is 39% below the New York median midpoint ($136K) — in the lowest quarter of Project Manager salary ranges in New York.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 1,234 open Project Manager jobs in New York and 23,231 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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Experience
This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Project Manager postings that state a minimum ask for (median 7 years, across 20,160 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a high school diploma; 13,833 of the 23,231 open Project Manager jobs (60%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 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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