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About the Role

The Director, Rail Vehicle Maintenance provides leadership and strategic direction for CapMetro rail vehicle maintenance operations, ensuring safe, reliable, and efficient service. This role is accountable for operational performance, safety, workforce, and contract management, aligning initiatives with organizational goals and maintaining regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic oversight and accountability for all rail vehicle maintenance functions, including preventive and corrective maintenance, vehicle inspections, and fleet readiness.
• Lead maintenance planning, scheduling, workforce deployment, and resource allocation to achieve safe, reliable, efficient, and high-performing operations.
• Direct the Manager, Vehicle Maintenance, and vehicle maintenance leadership personnel in overseeing frontline supervisors, mechanics, technicians, cleaners, and contracted maintenance providers.
• Develop, implement, and oversee all required vehicle maintenance training programs, including FRA-mandated training, certifications, and ongoing competency requirements.
• Establish, monitor, and analyze key performance indicators (KPIs) for rail vehicle maintenance.
• Develop and implement strategic initiatives that improve vehicle asset reliability, maintenance effectiveness, operational efficiency, service delivery, and long-term fleet performance.
• Coordinate vehicle maintenance capital and lifecycle planning priorities with the Director of Engineering Services and Capital Projects.
• Implement and enforce vehicle maintenance policies, procedures, and safety protocols while ensuring compliance with all applicable federal, state, local, FRA, and rail industry regulations.
• Lead investigations of vehicle maintenance-related incidents and failures, identify root causes, implement corrective actions, and drive continuous risk mitigation efforts.
• Promote and sustain a safety-first culture focused on regulatory compliance, operational excellence, accountability, and proactive risk management.
• Work with applicable internal stakeholders to ensure compliance with CapMetro's System Safety and Security Plan.
• Prepare, administer, and monitor vehicle maintenance operating and capital budgets.
• Oversee vehicle maintenance service contracts, negotiate with vendors, and manage capital program requirements related to fleet maintenance.
• Support Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Safety Management Systems (SMS) process by ensuring staff follow safety and security policies.
• Direct and manage department personnel by planning, scheduling, delegating, and overseeing employee work assignments.
• Authorize, coordinate, and schedule work with vendors and consultants.
• Conduct personnel actions, including hiring, interviewing, training, work assignments, and performance evaluations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Business Administration, or a related technical field; advanced degrees preferred. Relevant experience may be substituted on a year-for-year basis up to four years.
• Ten (10) years of progressive leadership experience in rail or transit operations.
• Six (6) years of progressively responsible leadership experience in rail or transit vehicle maintenance operations, with direct accountability for fleet maintenance performance.
• Advanced skill in word processing and spreadsheet software applications, such as Microsoft Office Suite or similar software.
• Executive-level leadership and decision-making capabilities.
• Deep knowledge of rail vehicle maintenance operations, fleet systems and subsystems, safety standards, and regulatory compliance.
• Strong strategic planning, organizational, and performance management skills.
• Effective, professional communicator with the ability to influence and lead across the organization.
• Ability to find solutions to complex interpersonal, technical, financial, legal, and administrative problems.
• Working knowledge of Federal Railroad Administration and Federal Transit Administration principles, practices, and laws as they apply to rail vehicle maintenance.
• Ability to demonstrate a fiduciary obligation to the division, department, and Capital Metro in handling materials and information of a confidential nature.
• Ability to effectively supervise and direct consultants and contractors.
• Incumbent must have the ability to stand and sit frequently throughout an eight-hour period, reach vertically for overhead use as well as horizontally.
• Incumbents must be able to lift and move material weighing up to 20 lbs.
• Incumbents must be able to perform work at a computer terminal for 6–8 hours a day.
• Incumbents must be able to function in an environment with constant interruptions.
• All applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States.
• Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Skills

• Word processing
• Spreadsheet software applications
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Rail vehicle maintenance operations
• Fleet systems and subsystems
• Safety standards
• Regulatory compliance
• Strategic planning
• Organizational skills
• Performance management
• Communication
• Leadership
• Problem-solving
• Federal Railroad Administration principles
• Federal Transit Administration principles
• Supervising consultants
• Supervising contractors

Location

• Onsite

Work Type

• Onsite
• Full-time

Experience Level

• Director
• Progressive leadership experience in rail or transit operations
• Progressively responsible leadership experience in rail or transit vehicle maintenance operations

Education Level

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Business Administration, or a related technical field
• Advanced degrees preferred

About the Company

• CapMetro is an equal employment opportunity employer and committed to creating a welcoming environment for all employees.
• This position has been identified as a “Security Sensitive” position. CapMetro will conduct annual background checks on incumbents in this position.

Equal Opportunity

• We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, pregnancy, age, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.
• CapMetro makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and organization needs at the time.