The Regional Transportation District (RTD) operates and maintains a mass transportation system for the benefit of 2.8 million people in the Denver/Boulder metro area.

RTD provides bus and train, on-demand, paratransit, airport, and special event services. To streamline travel, RTD offers several real-time trip planning mobile and web applications that provide vehicle location and arrival time. RTD also offers various fare options including Mobile Ticketing and reloadable fare cards.

RTD is an organization made up of dedicated and qualified people doing extraordinary things to increase mobility integration throughout the metro area. Employees take great pride in the delivery of a wide array of services that help fulfill the vision of being the regional mobility integrator for metro Denver.

This position provides support and assistance to asset owners for the collection, compilation and analysis of data in order to make sound business decisions minimizing the life-cycle cost of assets, maximizing value and managing risk. Responsible for the FTA required State of Good Repair asset condition assessments.

Duties & Responsibilities

ESSENTIAL:

• Develops and embeds asset management good practice in the organization in order to continuously improve the asset management capability.
• Interacts with asset owners, maintenance technicians, and contractors to collect maintenance, performance, and asset condition data.
• Develops assessment criteria for verifying the condition of assets; monitors maintenance procedures; establishes criteria for component change out intervals.
• Authors, analyzes and interprets asset level condition, performance reports and resource needs projections.
• Conducts asset condition assessments.

Other

• All job-related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, business, analytics, business intelligence or a related field.
• A minimum of three years of experience analyzing and evaluating business processes and data preferably in the area of physical asset management. Proficiency in working with the principles of physical asset management; asset cost, risk and performance, and asset decay modeling preferred.
• A minimum of three years of experience in data mining.
• A minimum of three years of experience with Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) systems or Maintenance Reporting Systems (MRS)
• Must have or be able to obtain certification in Asset Management from the Institute of Asset Management within two years of hire date and obtain a Diploma in Asset Management within 5 years of obtaining the certificate.
• Ability to translate mathematical information into concise reports.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite, advanced Excel skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing.
• Ability to use sound judgment.
• Ability to manage time and workload effectively, which includes planning, organizing, and prioritizing with attention to details.
• Ability to work non-standard working days and hours, as needed.

Or

• An equivalent combination of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities.

Working Environment And Physical Requirements

The work environment and physical demands described here are representative of those required by an employee to perform the essential functions of this job with or without reasonable accommodations.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk and sit. The employee is occasionally required to walk on even and uneven rocky terrain (ballasted track) and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is regularly required to reach. The employee is occasionally required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts, moving trains; risk of electrical shock and vibration. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; outside weather conditions; explosives and risk of radiation. The noise level in some work environment is moderate to high

CORE COMPETENCIES: PROFESSIONAL

SAFETY: Promotes safety as agency’s number 1 priority in decision-making, reporting, learning, mitigation and follow-up. Zero tolerance for unsafe conditions or acts. Promotes continuous improvement of safety culture.

COMMUNICATION (D): good written and verbal communication, organized thought processes, polite and respectful of others, adapts presentations to the audience

ANALYSIS/PROBLEM SOLVING: thoroughly thinks out and evaluates alternatives, innovative problem resolution, pro-active approach, initiative to resolve problems

WORKLOAD MANAGEMENT (D): works with little direction and supervision, timely completion of projects, makes time for unplanned assignments, adapts to changing priorities

ETHICS AND INTEGRITY: perceived fairness; tolerance; honesty; consistent in application of policies and procedures.

Job Specific Competencies

SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE: specialty field of knowledge is up to date and properly applied

JUDGMENT: makes appropriate and sound decisions after weighing alternatives; follows policies and procedures; thoughtful consideration for other’s opinions; logical

CUSTOMER FOCUS: communicates courteously and proactively, learns customer’s short-and long-term needs, sees issues from customer’s perspective.

Career Map

Based on job performance, experience, education and position availability the next step on the career map for this position may be: Manager, Business Analysis