Vice President, Rail Operations
About The Position
The Vice President of Commuter Rail Operations provides executive leadership, strategic direction, and operational oversight for the transition of commuter rail services from a fully contracted operating model to a directly operated organization for rail transportation and maintenance with contracting to a new contractor for maintenance of way and signal systems. This role is responsible for establishing the safety culture, operational framework, workforce strategy, maintenance integration, regulatory compliance, and performance management systems necessary to successfully internalize rail operations while maintaining safe, reliable, customer-focused service. The VP serves as a key member of the executive leadership team and leads a complex organizational transformation involving labor relations, operational readiness, governance, change management, and stakeholder coordination. In addition, the VP will oversee strategic coordination on CapMetro’s hosted railroad with contracted freight rail partners to lead initiatives that maximize return on investment across rail operations, infrastructure utilization, capital deployment, and service performance.
Requirements
- Executive leadership experience
- Strategic direction experience
- Operational oversight experience
- Experience in transitioning contracted operating models to directly operated organizations
- Experience in establishing safety culture
- Experience in developing operational frameworks
- Experience in workforce strategy development
- Experience in maintenance integration
- Experience in regulatory compliance
- Experience in performance management systems
- Experience in leading organizational transformation
- Experience in labor relations
- Experience in operational readiness
- Experience in governance
- Experience in change management
- Experience in stakeholder coordination
- Experience in strategic coordination with freight rail partners
- Experience in maximizing return on investment across rail operations, infrastructure utilization, capital deployment, and service performance.
Responsibilities
- Provides executive leadership, strategic direction, and operational oversight for the transition of commuter rail services from a fully contracted operating model to a directly operated organization.
- Establishes the safety culture, operational framework, workforce strategy, maintenance integration, regulatory compliance, and performance management systems necessary to successfully internalize rail operations.
- Maintains safe, reliable, customer-focused service during the transition.
- Serves as a key member of the executive leadership team.
- Leads a complex organizational transformation involving labor relations, operational readiness, governance, change management, and stakeholder coordination.
- Oversees strategic coordination on CapMetro’s hosted railroad with contracted freight rail partners.
- Leads initiatives that maximize return on investment across rail operations, infrastructure utilization, capital deployment, and service performance.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
Education Level
No Education Listed
