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Massachusetts Employer Dep. Dir. of Infrastructure Maint. in Boston, Massachusetts
Job Duties: Liaise with all departments within Engineering & Maintenance such as Transit Facilities Maintenance, Power Division, Signal Division, and Maintenance of Way. Utilize strong leadership skills to manage the Infrastructure Division of the Four E&M departments. Support the overall goals, priorities, and strategic initiatives for all Engineering & Maintenance QA/QC. Support assigned QA/QC Infrastructure related engineering activities for planning, design, and construction work involving multiple consultants and contractors. Develop and maintain QA/QC technical requirements and criteria related to Infrastructure design, including but not limited to design criteria, standard specifications and drawings. Review and assess requests that may deviate from established QA/QC standards. Collaborate closely with Construction, Operations, and Maintenance to continuously validate and improve requirements based on current industry best practices. Establish goals, priorities and strategic initiatives for the delivery of QA/QC infrastructure maintenance requirements. Lead the development of metrics and other analytical tools to measure the performance of the Infrastructure Quality Assurance program. Ensure the Infrastructure QA/QC processes, policies and practices are interpreted and applied consistently and effectively; ensure accountability and compliance with all current MBTA policies and procedures, rules and regulations. Provide QA/QC Infrastructure related engineering support to Project Managers throughout the planning, design and construction phase of capital projects. Support includes but is not limited to design reviews, construction submittal reviews, response to requests for information, preparation of field clarifications, field inspection etc. Provide QA/QC support to the department on matters as directed and requested; serves as staff on a variety of committees; prepare and present reports, presentations, and other necessary correspondence. Read, interpret, and make recommendations based upon technical documents, drawings, blueprints, maintenance manuals, specifications, schematics, and other sample tests. Report on the performance of Quality Assurance Standards to MBTA senior managers and other stakeholders. Maintain a continuous improvement mindset, identifies opportunities to improve operational support and reduce operation cost (e.g. Standardization, Proactive Preventive Maintenance vs. Reactive Preventive Maintenance). Perform Reliabilility Engineering analyses, including Root Cause Analysis, Pareto Analysis, Mean Time to Repair, and Mean Time Between Service Affecting Failures. Assist in the Authority\'s response to extraordinary situations including emergencies, derailments, accidents, serious service delays, severe weather in order to ensure safety and securement of riders, employees, and MBTA assets. Respond or report to work as directed by supervisory personnel for emergencies, extreme weather conditions, or any other abnormal conditions that impair service or the safety of service, twenty-four (24) hours per day, seven (7) days per week. Uphold the rights and interest of a workforce by ensuring the fair and consistent application and strict adherence to the rules, regulations, collective bargaining agreements (if applicable) and policies of the Authority including the EEO, Anti-Discrimination and Anti-Harassment and Anti-Retaliation policies. Perform other related duties and projects as assigned.