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Salary Range - $90,000 - $120,000

Driven by Purpose. Powered by People.

At Keolis, a leader in public transportation and proudly headquartered in Boston, our mission — We Imagine, We Care, We Commit — is more than words. It’s how we support our communities and how we support each other. As part of our team, you'll have access to a comprehensive benefits package designed with your wellbeing in mind. We offer a competitive benefits package that supports your health, wellbeing, and peace of mind. This includes medical, dental, and vision coverage, along with life and disability insurance. You’ll also have access to a variety of voluntary benefits such as hospital indemnity, accident, and critical illness coverage, as well as home, auto, and pet insurance.  To help secure your financial future, we also provide a 401(k)-retirement plan with a company match. At Keolis, you're not just building a career — your part of something bigger.

Knowledge and Skills

• Must possess strong interpersonal skills successfully implementing change in a heavily unionized environment.  
• Must possess excellent verbal, writing, and basic accounting skills. 
• Good leadership skills and able to build high performing teams. 
• Build trust in relationships. 
• Demonstrated capability to influence, negotiate and facilitate buy-in with a variety of stakeholders up to and including labor organizations and suppliers and clients,  
• Proven ability to lead by example to foster positive cross functional relationships with internal and external stake holder.

Experience

• Minimum of 3-5 years of direct project management experience in one or more of the following:  
  • Department of Transportation
  • Federal Railroad Administration
  • American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association
  • Association of American Railroads
  • Occupational Safety and Health Administration rules and regulations
  • Or other federally regulated industries.
• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience managing project budgets and life cycle forecasting.
• Prefer a certification such as PMP, and this would be a plus.
• Prefer experience with MS Projects or other scheduling software; this is a plus.
• Proficient understanding of construction means and methods. 
• Proven project management experience with demonstrable proficiency in the use of project management tools and processes. 
• Commercially astute with good negotiating skills. 
• Key personal traits:  forward thinking, proactive, resilient, sound judgement, innovative where it is required, driven by a relentless pursuit of excellence. 
• Good Excel and PowerPoint skills helpful.
• Highly motivated and driven professional, able to manage multiple high priority projects simultaneously. Strong work ethic.
• Demonstrated leadership and influencing skills.

Key Accountabilities

• To develop robust project plans covering the full life cycle of the project to ensure delivery of project in line with quality, cost, and time objectives.
• To establish costs, resources, accurate timelines to develop business cases and Project Initiation documents. 
• Coordinate cost estimating, budgeting, and monitoring and control for construction projects and support services. 
• Effective construction and management of project budgets. 
• Effective and timely recovery of all project costs to ensure KCS margin targets.
• Represent KCS-Engineering at construction, track outages, site inspections, as well as payment and payment documentation meetings with the MBTA. 
• Lead procurement and tendering of project to ensure risk of project delivery and cost are balanced.
• Manage project effectively from initiation to completion.
• Effective negotiation and management of the contract with the Supply chain.
• Assess, mitigate and manage all project risks, dealing effectively with issues that arise. 
• Develop specifications for subcontractor scopes of services.  
• Responsible for detailed design scrutiny, ensuring that the chosen designs support the reliability, availability, ability to be maintained and safety requirements of the System while ensuring compliance with all industry and mandatory standards. 
• Report and communicate effectively, facilitating timely decision making and progress through milestones.
• Ensure safety and quality assurance that appropriate mandatory, MBTA and KCS standards are being delivered both internally by KCS staff and externally by KCS suppliers.
• Other duties as assigned.

Additional Statements:

• 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 at Keolis. By placing safety first, we ensure the wellbeing of our employees, customers, and communities. Together we can become the most successful transportation company in the world. 

• Environmental commitment: Keolis is committed to protecting the environment by minimizing the impact of operations to our people and the communities in which we operate.

• EEO statement: Our policy is to afford Equal Employment Opportunity to qualified individuals regardless of their race, color, sex, religion, age, creed, marital status, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, or gender identification. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.

• Disclaimer and closing statement: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of employees assigned to this job, and Keolis retains the right to change or assign other duties to this position. Employees must be able to perform the essential job duties of this position satisfactorily.  If requested, reasonable accommodation will be made to enable employees with disabilities to perform the essential functions of their job, absent undue hardship.  Keolis is committed to offering our employees competitive compensation and benefits, opportunities for development and growth throughout an exciting and rewarding career, and the safest work environment possible.