• Job Description

  Req#: 160686

  Your success is a train ride away!

  As we move America’s workforce toward the future, Amtrak connects businesses and communities across the country. We employ more than 20,000 diverse, energetic professionals in a variety of career fields throughout the United States. The safety of our passengers, our employees, the public and our operating environment is our priority, and the success of our railroad is due to our employees.

  Are you ready to join our team?

  Our values of ‘Do the Right Thing, Excel Together and Put Customers First’ are at the heart of what matters most to us, and our Core Capabilities, ‘Building Trust, Accountability, Effective Communication, Customer Focus, and Proactive Safety & Security’ are what every employee needs to know and do to be most impactful at Amtrak. By living the Amtrak values, focusing on our capabilities, and actively embracing and fostering diverse ideas, backgrounds, and perspectives, together we will honor our past and make Amtrak a company of the future.

  SUMMARY OF DUTIES:

  
  The Facilities Development Mg is responsible for managing and overseeing Amtrak’s physical assets, including stations, corporate offices and other facilities to improve its core business through enhancing the customer experience. The incumbent is responsible for developing a short, medium and long-term capital maintenance and improvement program for facilities, as well as planning and project management functions for new and renovated facilities systemwide. In addition, this position is responsible for supporting Amtrak’s station managers and operational team in identifying, evaluating and resolving operational and programmatic deficiencies across individual facilities. This role covers the Northeast region.

  This is a hybrid role based in Philadelphia, PA.

  ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

  • Manages and oversees the Facilities Management function for physical assets in an assigned region, including coordination with a thirty-party facilities management service provider and associated contractors and subcontractors.
  • Evaluates facilities with station managers, and other internal and external support staff, to identify operational and programmatic deficiencies.
  • Develops, manages and implements facility construction projects of various scales, directly with, or with the engagement of, third-party service providers, including new construction, renovation or replacement projects for all aspects of facilities.
  • Manages projects and initiatives related to Amtrak’s Customer NOW Program, which aims to improve and enhance the customer experience at Amtrak-served stations systemwide, with an immediate focus on the Top 25 and Top 100 Stations, as identified by senior management.
  • Manages the planning, programming and development of internally and externally (third-party) sponsored facility projects. Provides project management support throughout the facility development process.
  • Develops short, medium and long-term capital and asset plans for a defined region identifying all capital components, the life cycle, and annual capital budgets necessary to maintain stations in a state-of-good-repair (SOGR).
  • Administers facility maintenance standards and service goals on a regional basis; Budgets, monitors and approves costs; Reviews maintenance operations against those standards and goals; Develops and implements facility management best practices, including capital planning and asset management strategies.
  • Collaborates with all Amtrak departments, and all levels of management, to foster ongoing communications and ensure system-wide consistency in implementation of facilities management functions and standards.
  • Maintains effective relationships with landlords, tenants, contractors and all other internal and external stakeholders and/or partners.
  • Participates in project meetings, site surveys, assessments, design review sessions, pre-construction and construction phases, as required.
  • Participates in the development and evaluation of RFQs and RFPs for planning, design and construction contracts for facility improvements.
  • Perform additional responsibilities and special assignments, as directed by supervisor.

  
  MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Bachelor’s Degree required OR equivalent combination of training, education and relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
  • Proven management experience and leadership abilities. Ability to manage multiple projects with competing priorities and tight deadlines.
  • Extensive communication/presentation skills and experience including distilling and communicating complex issues to senior level officers.
    

  PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

  • 7-10 years of relevant experience preferred
  • Master’s degree in architecture, construction, planning, engineering, project management, business administration, or a related field.
  • Experience developing a facility management and/or capital maintenance and/or improvement plan for multiple facilities on a national platform.
  • Relevant experience in the transportation and/or railroad industry.for multiple facilities on a national platform.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, time sensitive environment with frequently changing priorities, tasks and deadlines. Frequently manages multiple projects simultaneously.
  • Ability to communicate, comprehend, and respond to verbal statements and instructions, both orally and in writing. Ability to work under pressure.
  • Frequently resolves issues with conflicting priorities in cognitively demanding situations.
  • Constantly, or frequently, uses a computer, monitor, keyboard, mouse and other related electronic equipment and software to perform a variety of tasks.
  • Ability to work in an office building environment. Ability to work in a remote location with access to wireless internet and phone while outside of the office or traveling on business.
  • Ability to walk throughout all parts of transportation facilities and mechanical yards wearing personal protective equipment when necessary.
  • Frequently or occasionally travels throughout the country as required (via airplane, train, automobile, etc.). Ability to travel by train overnight to various stations.

  
  COMMUNICATIONS AND INTERPERSONAL SKILLS:

  Must have excellent written and oral communication skills.

  The salary/hourly range is $113,200-$146,644, Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, internal equity, etc. Depending on an employee’s assigned worksite or location, Amtrak may consider a geo-pay differential to be applied to the employee’s base salary. Amtrak may offer additional incentive and pay programs to recognize and reward our employees, including a short-term incentive bonus based upon factors such as individual and company performance that is commensurate with the level of the position and/or long-term incentive plan compensation. In addition to your salary, Amtrak offers a comprehensive benefit package that includes health, dental, and vision plans; health savings accounts; wellness programs; flexible spending accounts; 401K retirement plan with employer match; life insurance; short and long term disability insurance; paid time off; back-up care; adoption assistance; surrogacy assistance; reimbursement of education expenses; Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility; Railroad Retirement sickness and retirement benefits; and rail pass privileges. Learn more about our benefits offerings here.

  Requisition ID:160686
  Posting Location(s):Pennsylvania
  Job Family/Function:Finance
  Relocation Offered:No
  Travel Requirements:Up to 25%
  

  You power our progress through your performance.
  

  We want your work at Amtrak to be more than a job. We want your career at Amtrak to be a fulfilling experience where you find challenging work, rewarding opportunities, respect among colleagues, and attractive compensation. Amtrak maintains a culture that values high performance and recognizes individual employee contributions.

  
  Amtrak is committed to a safe workplace free of drugs and alcohol. All Amtrak positions requires a pre-employment background check that includes prior employment verification, a criminal history check and a pre-employment drug screen.

  Candidates who test positive for marijuana will be disqualified, regardless of any state or local statute, ordinance, regulation, or other law that legalizes or decriminalizes the use or possession of marijuana, whether for medical, recreational, or other use. Amtrak's pre-employment drug testing program is administered in accordance with DOT regulations and applicable law.

  
  In accordance with DOT regulations (49 CFR § 40.25), Amtrak is required to obtain prior drug and alcohol testing records for applicants/employees intending to perform safety-sensitive duties for covered Department of Transportation positions. If an applicant/employee refuses to provide written consent for Amtrak to obtain these records, the individual will not be permitted to perform safety-sensitive functions.

  In accordance with federal law governing security checks of covered individuals for providers of public transportation (Title 6 U.S.C. §1143), Amtrak is required to screen applicants for any permanent or interim disqualifying criminal offenses.

  
  Note that any education requirement listed above may be deemed satisfied if you have an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

  
  Amtrak is an EOE/Affirmative Action Minority/Female employer, and we welcome all to apply. We consider candidates regardless of race/color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related conditions), national origin/ethnicity, age, disability (intellectual, mental and physical), veteran status, marital status, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, genetic information, citizenship or any other personal characteristics protected by law.

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