Project Manager/Analyst (PA/ESS) - (must be local to MA, ME, NH, RI, or VT)
Project Manager/Analyst (PA/ESS) - (must be local to MA, ME, NH, RI, or VT)
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02-08-2025
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Job Description
The MBTA is (finally!) modernizing the digital screens and public address system that provide train and bus arrival information throughout the subway system. This major multi-year modernization effort will upgrade core rider-facing digital infrastructure improving the daily experience of hundreds of thousands of ridersand make this complex technology system more modular more reliable and more secure in the process.
Were looking for a Project Manager/Analyst to ensure the success of the 1-2 year design phase thats about to kick-off. The core work will be performed by a consultant team with expertise in acoustics engineering design and other relevant subject areas. Were looking for someone to manage this work providing the daily oversight and internal MBTA coordination required to make the work as efficient and effective as possible. Youll be a great fit if understanding the complexities of up to 100 MBTA stations the needs of key internal stakeholders like Safety & System-Wide Accessibility and the complex regulations governing MBTA facilities sounds like an exciting challenge.
This is a contract position with a fixed term of 18 months. The position may be extended past that initial 18-month term if the design phase ends up taking longer than anticipated.
About this role:
- As a Project Manager/Analyst in the Technology Innovation Department you will be the bridge between in-house technology staff key internal departments that have a stake in the modernization of rider-facing infrastructure and our design consultant. Successfully delivering this critical phase of the modernization program within a complex government agency like the MBTA will require a wide range of skills. One day you might be wearing a safety vest studying a complex stations layout and sketching proposals; the next you might be facilitating working group discussions and sharing updates with senior executives.
This job requires:
- Attention to detail: A modernization program at 100 stations is akin to 100 different projects each with their own challenges constraints and complexities. Youll need to be relentlessly organized and on top of station-specific details.
- Communication skills: TID is a cross-functional team within a large complex public agency. Succeeding in this role will mean being able to speak the languages of construction architecture accessibility safety transit operations IT and user experiencemaybe allin the same day. It will require writing with clarityon a daily basisand finding creative ways to communicate ideas with different audiences.
Principal duties and responsibilities:
- Be TIDs subject matter expert for stations
- Join the consultant on site visits becoming intimately familiar with each station
- Review consultant plans and provide critical assessments of the consultants proposed locations for digital screens speakers wiring paths and more
- Interface with internal MBTA departments to ensure that all requirements are considered in the consultants workelectrical signals/communication safety accessibility and more
- Manage the consultants work
- Coordinate weekly meetings ensuring that records are kept and key decisions are logged
- Lead knowledge management of what will likely be a document-heavy project with plansets transmittals and changelogs for each station
- Identify risks to the projects scope and timeline advocating for the prioritization of critical path work
- Stakeholder engagement & coordination
- Build and maintain relationships with key MBTA departments that make up the projects working group
- Coordinate periodic meetingsand provide regular updates ensuring alignment and transparency
- Understand and collate stakeholders needs representing them to the consultant on a continuous basis
Work experience guidelines (minimum education)
- Formal education in project management urban planning architecture engineering construction or a related field (this could be a college degree a bootcamp a certificate program or something else entirely).
Location:
This role will mostly be onsite. Its an 18 month contract to start.
As a contracted role for the MBTA we are only able to employ people living in the following states - ME MA NH RI and VT.
At this time we are only able to hire US residents who will reside in the US for the duration of their employment
Compensation:
Pay rate range is $65 - $88 per hour (W-2) up to 1880 hours per year.
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Contract
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