Manager Asset Planning

Business Unit: MTA Construction & Development

Location: New York, NY, United States

Regular/Temporary: Regular

Department: Capital Asset Planning

Date Posted: Apr 29, 2025

This position is eligible for telework which is currently one day per week. New hires are eligible to apply 30 days after their effective date of hire.

JOB TITLE: Manager, Asset Planning

AGENCY: Construction & Development

DEPT/DIV: Planning/ Capital Asset Planning

REPORTS TO: Senior Director Asset Planning

WORK LOCATION: 2 Broadway

HOURS OF WORK: 8 : 3 0 AM to 5: 0 0 P M or as required (7.5HR/ DAY )

HAY POINTS: 588

SALARY RANGE: $ 91,990 to $ 119,698

DEADLINE: S ummary

The Manager, Asset Planning is responsible for managing the efforts necessary to develop the MTA’ s Twenty-Year Needs Assessment and subsequent a multi-billion dollar 5-year Capital Plan that identifies the critical transportation investments necessary to ensure the continued mobility of the MTA region. This position will work directly with senior staff and MTA agency stakeholders in order to conduct a systematic analysis of assets and systems, multiple transportation investment proposals and initiatives used to develop asset investment strategies .

The Manager is also responsible for ensuring that the results of these activities are presented in an accurate, understandable, and timely manner .

The Manager will be responsible for supporting the planning for the MTA’s capital assets, such as railcars, buses, stations, track, structures, signals, communications, power, yards, and facilities, that together make-up the millions of components that enable the MTA to move millions of New Yorkers everyday.

The Manager will contribute substantially to all, or a subset therein, of the following core Planning activities:

• Development of the Twenty-Year Needs Assessment.
• Development of MTA’s 5-year Capital Program.
• Development of capital strategies and plans for the MTA and the region.
• Working directly with senior staff on the development and planning of multiple transportation proposals and initiatives.
• Development and management of scopes, budgets, and work plans for various projects.
• Managing professional staff and consultants

Other anticipated responsibilities include:

• Manage development and improvement of asset planning tools and strategies.
• Identify and utilize best practices to develop and manage data sets and analytics.
• Manage all aspects of capital plans and strategies, including consultant teams contracted by MTA to assist in major planning initiatives.
• Manage review processes and finalize technical documents.
• Gather, update, and analyze analytical data.
• Manage the development and review of agency plans.
• Present to Executive leadership, Senior Management, external agencies, and public stakeholders in an accurate, understandable, and timely manner.
• Manag e and mentor junior staff.
• Develop presentations, maps, graphics, and other public facing documentation.
• Us e Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to analyze contexts and implications of transportation improvements.
• Analyze, assess, interpret, and present a wide variety of data to understand and represent the capital needs of the MTA agencies.
• Present findings of various analyses to MTA senior staff, operating agencies, the public, and non-MTA agencies in an accurate, understandable, and timely manner.
• Utilize large databases of information, including asset assessments, asset inventories, regional planning information, transit usage, socio-economic and demographic information to develop planning tools for prioritization that underpin the agency’s capital strategy.
• Interface with other areas of C&D in support of planning activities.

• A Bachelor's degree in transportation planning, urban planning, public administration, or a related field.
• Must have a minimum of five ( 5 ) years of relevant experience, preferably in transportation, experience.
• Master's degree preferred.
• AICP or PE certification/license a strong plus.
• Strong supervisory and technical skills, including proficiency in MS Office, data analytics, visualization tools, and spatial analysis using GIS or similar mapping tools.
• Ab…