Senior Rolling Stock Program Specialist

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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is North America's largest transportation network, serving a population of 15.3 million people across a 5,000-square-mile travel area surrounding New York City, Long Island, southeastern New York State, and Connecticut. The MTA network comprises the nation’s largest bus fleet and more subway and commuter rail cars than all other U.S. transit systems combined. MTA strives to provide a safe and reliable commute, excellent customer service, and rewarding opportunities.

This position will support the Rolling Stock Program Office efforts in the implementation of best practices for the acquisition and lifecycle costing of buses, subway cars, commuter rail cars and all non-revenue/work car equipment across New York City Transit (NYCT), Metro North Railroad (MNR) and Long Island Railroad (LIRR). This position will work with business partners in NYCT, MNR, LIRR and MTA Headquarters to understand reporting needs/goals.

It will conduct rigorous data analysis and modeling in support of stated reporting needs/goals. This position will work with project management offices within MTA Operating Agencies to implement and operationalize Rolling Stock Program Office’s recommendations/strategies. This position will work with the project management offices in NYCT, MNR, and LIRR helping to maintain project timelines and budgets and achieve project goals/performance milestones.

• Conduct analysis on a wide variety of rolling stock related datasets, including maintenance and performance data. Gather, analyze, and interpret a wide variety of data to support transformation of the rolling stock acquisition approach across operating agencies.
• Prepare and present findings and recommendations of various analyses to Rolling Stock Program Office leadership and operating agencies in an accurate, understandable, and timely manner. Develop reports, presentations, and/or dashboards targeted to various internal and external stakeholders.
• Support benchmarking exercises on procurement evaluation models to inform management of the latest trends and best practices for achieving best value in rolling stock procurements.
• Stimulate and engage in cross-functional collaboration across MTA operating agencies to gather information on and understand current operational practices related to rolling stock acquisition, maintenance, and life-cycle costs.
• Support the project management oversight of existing New York City Transit (NYCT), Metro North Railroad (MNR) and Long Island Railroad (LIRR) rolling stock projects. Guide project management offices in the implementation and operationalization of the Rolling Stock Program Office’s recommendations/strategies and the maintenance of project timelines and budgets; and to achieve project goals/ performance milestones.
• Apply quality controls to output data to ensure data validity, accuracy and usability by the desired audience. Identify and correct data errors and/or inconsistencies, and make sure that data meets pre-defined standards and requirements before the data is used for reporting or decision-making.
• Perform the data analysis which may include but is not limited to ROI analysis and lifecycle cost analyses of rolling stock assets. Draft conclusions that will inform strategies developed and proposed by the Rolling Stock Program Office to facilitate implementation of a total cost of ownership(“TCO”) approach related to acquisition and maintenance of rolling stock by the operating agencies (NYCT, MNR, LIRR).
  
  Break down large requests into actionable steps that will lead to the successful fulfillment of the request or achievement of a specific goal. As an example, a request to assist in determining the TCO of a particular rolling stock car class/asset could require that the request be broken down into smaller tasks (ex. analysis of maintenance data, financial impact to agency when cars are out of service for repairs, etc.).
• May be required to conduct industry research/analysis regarding market conditions affecting rolling stock manufacturing and sub-supplier environment that may entail outreach to existing and/or…