Maintenance Manager - Valley Metro

Job Details Knowledge and Experience

• Minimum 5 years of vehicle, equipment, and hydraulic maintenance experience
• Minimum 3 years’ experience as a Maintenance Director or Manager role in a Transit environment with over 250 vehicles
• Experience in creating and managing a department budget
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent training and experience
• Advanced computer skills including Microsoft Office required
• Has evidence of experience and accountability for emergency planning, incident response and safety management in a fixed route maintenance environment
• Union and contract negotiation experience
• Must be willing to work flexible hours to meet the needs of the business in a 24/7 environment

• Strong commitment to Company values
• Must have excellent communication skills at all levels of the organization to include the client
• Ensure all standard operating procedures
• Develop and implement policies and procedures for the Maintenance Department
• Compliance with federal, state, and local regulations
• Adhere to the Keolis Quality Assurance policies and procedures
• Adhere to the client’s maintenance standards
• Leadership of positive employee and labor relations
• Will have the ability to identify and solve problems in a structured and analytical way

• Be Accountable for the department’s organizational safety performance
• Ensure all relevant statutory and regulatory safety policies are applied and adhered to
• Ensure Safety governance is in place, continuously bringing safety performance and adherence to processes to the forefront.
• Contribute to the safety culture through displaying exemplary safety-oriented behaviors
• Establish preventative maintenance schedules

• Set the tone of leadership throughout the department through implementation of the Keolis management principles
• Lead an engaging culture where each individual is able to work to their full potential in the aligned delivery of the business objectives.
• Build the talent pool to ensure future capability to deliver the organizational business plan
• Lead the Union relationship
• Understand and monitor compliance to the ratified CBA
• Plan and lead CBA negotiations
• Manage union relationships to be productive and enable win-win outcomes
• Drive an improvement in the employee experience enabling improvements in all employee related KPIs including: employee turnover, unplanned absenteeism, maintenance headcount.
• Drive employee survey participation and deliver local action plans to continually improve employee experience and engagement

• Accountable for the department’s economic performance – budget setting, monitoring and taking corrective actions as necessary to ensure objectives are met
• Deliver financial requirements for account payable, client billing, payroll, monthly analysis and reporting in a timely and accurate manner, and in accordance with policy and process.
• Monitor and manage costs of the organization to ensure delivery against the authorized budget.
• Improve financial performance of the business in a sustainable manner
• Develop annual budget
• Monitor compliance of monthly and annual financial targets

• Accountable for the quality of relationship with client
• Identify opportunities to improve delivery against the contract within the shareholder expectations to develop win-win outcomes for operator and client in accordance with our value of ‘we commit’.
• Monitor and assure the quality of the Stakeholder relationships for the organization.
• Ensures that the organization remains sensitive to key stakeholders (associations, user associations, etc..) and so becomes and remains a known and respected contributor to the growth and prosperity of the region.
• Attend client boards meetings and report key messages to key internal contacts
• Ensure strict adherence to all Keolis and client safety regulations

• Drug and alcohol screening:
  Employment contingent upon passing pre-employment drug and alcohol screen. Also, contingent upon receiving a favorable background check. Must pass a physical examination.
• Safety commitment:
  Safety is a way of life  placing safety first, we ensure the wellbeing of our employees, customers,…