Manager, Rail Maintenance of Way (MOW)

This position will manage work programs and team for preventive maintenance, inspection, maintenance, repair, installation and modification of TriMet's Light Rail System Maintenance of Way (MOW) plant and equipment, with an emphasis on MOW : track access, project management, construction and maintenance repair, safety, and structures (walls, bridges, and tunnels).

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Ensure a focus and commitment to TriMet's enforcement of the District's Safety Management Systems (SMS) and Quality Control programs at all times.

Essential Functions :

• Responsible for department's workforce scheduling, utilization, and logistics to effectively accomplish planned maintenance program goals and objectives.
• Monitor performance goals relative to availability, reliability, production targets, safety, and cleanliness. Implements corrective actions of maintenance performance objectives to assure adherence to established standards.
• Train, supervise, assign, evaluate, and counsel personnel, with direct responsibility for rail maintenance of way supervisors and engineering / training supervisors.

Act as Step I and / or Step II Hearing Officer for grievances brought within workforce areas of responsibility.

Assure, through supervision, the full utilization of TriMet's Maintenance Management InformationSystem (MMIS) for production planning, control, and recordkeeping.

Implement improvements in work methods.

• Develop and update Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to assure safety and effectiveness of rail maintenance of way operations.
• Coordinate with managers and engineers of other TriMet divisions and construction and equipment contractors for testing, acceptance, and warranty of wayside facilities and equipment.
• Manage the programmed maintenance, repair, and replacement of wayside equipment and facilities, including contracted maintenance services.
• Manage the programmed training of maintenance of way personnel, including apprenticeships, equipment certification, and recurrent training programs.
• Prepare operating and capital budgets; monitor and supervise expenditures. Manage the implementation of assigned maintenance of way capital projects.
• Prepare reports on maintenance and training program performance, status, needs, and proposals.

This role requires being onsite five (5) days per week.

Ensure a commitment to safety and regulatory compliance through effective leadership, training, role modeling and implementing practices that demonstrate safety is a fundamental value and a priority in all aspects of work.

Serve as a good steward of TriMet by regularly utilizing our transit system to maintain a strong and current understanding of customers’ experiences and of TriMet’s product and service offerings.

A minimum of a High School Diploma / G.E.D. is required.

A Bachelor's Degree in engineering or business is preferred.

A minimum of six (6) years of experience are required.

Four (4) years of journey-level experience in a rail maintenance of way discipline : traction power (OCS or Substation), signals, communications, track or plant are required.

Four (4) years of equipment or project engineering experience in a rail maintenance of way discipline are required.

Two (2) years of experience in a rail maintenance of way discipline : traction power (OCS or Substation), signals, communications, track or plant.

Or any equivalent combination of experience and training.

The amount of credit a candidate receives for prior years of experience is based on the relevancy of that experience to the required or preferred prerequisites of the job description.

Experience is prorated based on hours worked. LRHR assigns and validates the "credited experience".

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