Assistant General Manager

MV Transportation; Portland (OR); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

MV Transportation is seeking an Assistant General Manager to provide leadership and direction to assigned operating personnel and to ensure delivery of the division business plan in the fast-paced transit environment.

The role oversees scheduling, staffing decisions, policy implementation, budget management, and labor relations, with responsibility to meet client and corporate expectations and engage with the community.

Qualifications

• High School diploma or equivalent; college degree preferred.
• 3–5 years of supervisory or management experience within passenger transportation.
• Comprehensive knowledge of transit laws, ordinances, and regulatory requirements.
• Thorough understanding of transit system functions and workflows.
• Experience navigating labor relations with unions and negotiations.

Responsibilities

• Shares accountability for scheduling, performance evaluations, and staffing decisions for the facility's management team.
• Provides strategic leadership, planning, and direction to all operations personnel.
• Develops and implements operational policies, procedures, and best practices.
• Builds relationships within the community and represents the organization professionally.
• Ensures performance indicators meet client and corporate expectations.
• Oversees division goals, budgets, and labor relations; trains and mentors successors.

Skills

Supervisory experience

Transit operations knowledge

Labor relations

English proficiency

Analytical skills

Budget management

Leadership

Education

High school diploma

College degree preferred

Job description

Overview

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Responsibilities

MV Transportation is seeking anAssistant General Managerto provide support, leadership and direction to assigned operating personnel to ensure delivery of the division business plan in our fast-paced transit business.

Job Responsibilities:

• Shares accountability for scheduling, performance evaluations, and staffing decisions for the facility's management team.
• Provides strategic leadership, planning, and direction to all operations personnel.
• Develops, implements, and continuously improves operational policies, procedures, and best practices.
• Builds and maintains strong relationships within the community, actively engaging in outreach initiatives and professionally representing the organization.
• Ensures performance indicators meet or exceed client and corporate expectations.
• Ensures division goals and objectives are met or exceeded.
• Ensures subordinate staff are well trained and being successful.
• Ensures all company policies and procedures are in place and being followed.
• Ensures the company vision, values and culture are understood, communicated and promoted throughout operations.
• Ensures liquidated damages are kept to a minimum and failures are corrected.
• Develop and maintain a positive employee and labor relations.
• Directly oversees operations department managers.
• Trains and mentors a future successor for backfill.
• Successfully manages the Operations Department annual budget.
• Assumes responsibility of the General Manager during his/her absence.

Qualifications

Talent Requirements:

• High School diploma or equivalent; collegedegree preferred.
• Three (3) to five (5) years of supervisory or management experience within the passenger transportation industry.
• Comprehensive knowledge of the laws, ordinances, and regulatory requirements governing transit operations.
• Thorough understanding of transit system functions, including staff responsibilities and operational department workflows.
• Demonstrated ability to navigate labor relations matters and collaborate effectively with union partners, including handling labor grievances and participating in negotiations.
• Position is required to live within a 30 mile radius of the Thousand Oaks Transit Center.
• Certifications according to local contract as required.
• Knowledge of State and Federal regulations as well as company policies and procedures.
• Experience in development of runs, shift bids and run cuts.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Strong communication skills including written and verbal.
• Ability to work independently and be a self-starter.
• Strong supervision skills with ability to lead others to success.
• Ability to develop solutions to challenge through planning and implementation.
• Ability to write and speak English.

MV Transportation is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, sex, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, genetic information or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. The information collected by this application is solely to determine suitability for employment, verify identity and maintain employment statistics on applicants.

Where permissible under applicable state and local law, applicants may be subject to a pre-employment drug test and background check after receiving a conditional offer of employment.

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