This position will manage work programs for preventive maintenance, inspection, maintenance, repair, installation and modification of TriMet's Light Rail System Maintenance of Way (MOW) plant and equipment, including: traction substations and overhead electrification, wayside signals, communications, track, guideway and tunnel structures and systems, station structures, and grade crossings. 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.
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.
TriMet provides bus, light rail and commuter rail transit services in the Portland, Oregon, metro area. We connect people with their community, while easing traffic congestion and reducing air pollution — making the Portland area a better place to live.