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MANAGER, TRANSPORTATION PLANNING (TRANSIT ASSET MANAGEMENT)
LA Metro / Los Angeles
Posted on: February 11, 2025
Application Deadline: 2/17/25
Job Description
This role manages data analysis to support decision-making for keeping capital assets in a State of Good Repair in compliance with Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Transit Asset Management (TAM) regulations. Responsibilities include managing data on capital asset inventories, condition assessments, decision support tools, and reporting to the National Transit Database (NTD). The role supports migrating asset inventory data to a new Hexagon EAM database and conducts data analysis using Power BI, SQL, and Excel. It also assists with developing TAM Plans, asset replacement analysis, estimating workforce and funding resource needs and consultant management.
Required Experience / Skills / Education
Preferred Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications (PQs) are used to identify relevant knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) as determined by business necessity. These criteria are considered preferred qualifications and are not intended to serve as minimum requirements for the position. PQs will help support selection decisions throughout the recruitment. In addition, applicants who possess these PQs will not automatically be selected.
The following are the preferred qualifications:
- Experience supporting asset management processes, including inventories, condition assessments, decision tools, and Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Transit Asset Management (TAM) compliance
- Experience conducting complex data analytics and modeling using Power BI, SQL, relational databases and Excel for asset management and capital planning for operations
- Experience leading meetings with asset owners to gather and analyze data for Federal Transit Administration (FTA) TAM regulation compliance
- Experience analyzing capital plans, budgets, and recommendations for asset rehabilitation and replacement projects
Essential Knowledge
Knowledge of (defined as a learned body of information that is required for and applied in the performance of job tasks)
- Theories, principles, and practices of transportation planning and land use, business, project management, and public administration
- Applicable local, state, and federal laws, rules, and regulations governing transportation policies
- Financial, analytical, and statistical methods and procedures
- Budget and accounts management, forecasting, and linking to funding sources
- Applicable business software applications
- Modern management theory
Skill in (defined as the proficient manual, verbal, or mental utilization of data, people, or things)
- Conducting comprehensive studies and analyses
- Overseeing multidisciplinary teams
- Supervising, training, and motivating staff
- Critical and analytical thinking
- Analyzing situations, identifying problems, recommending solutions, and evaluating outcomes
- Exercising judgment and creativity in making decisions
- Establishing and implementing relevant policies and procedures
- Communicating effectively orally and in writing
- Communicating technical information effectively to non-technical audiences
- Interacting professionally with various levels of Metro employees and outside representatives
- Mediating and negotiating
Ability to (defined as a present competence to perform an observable behavior or produce an observable result)
- Manage multiple priorities and deadlines
- Think and act independently
- Represent Metro before the public
- Prepare comprehensive reports and correspondence
- Negotiate consensus solutions
- Make financial decisions within a budget
- Compile, analyze, and interpret complex data
- Understand, interpret, and apply laws, rules, regulations, policies, procedures, contracts, budgets, and labor/management agreements
- Read, write, speak, and understand English
Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Urban or Transportation Planning, Engineering (Civil, Transportation, Structural, Industrial, Mechanical, Architecture, etc.), Business, Public Administration, Political Science, Urban Design, Public Policy, Economics, or a related field; Master’s Degree in a related field preferred
Experience
- Six years of relevant experience or three years of relevant supervisory-level experience in transportation planning, project management, urban design, transportation system design and research, travel simulation and demand modeling, transportation finance, operations planning, or other related area; some positions in this class may require specialized experience in area of assignment.
Application Instructions
Application Procedure
To apply, visit Metro’s website at www.metro.net and complete an online Employment Application.
https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/lametro/jobs/4825106/manager-transportation-planning-transit-asset-management
