Job Description

Your success is a train ride away!

As we move America’s workforce toward the future, Amtrak connects businesses and communities across the country. We employ more than 20,000 diverse, energetic professionals in a variety of career fields throughout the United States. The safety of our passengers, our employees, the public and our operating environment is our priority, and the success of our railroad is due to our employees.

 

Are you ready to join our team?

Our values of ‘Do the Right Thing, Excel Together and Put Customers First’ are at the heart of what matters most to us, and our Core Capabilities, ‘Building Trust, Accountability, Effective Communication, Customer Focus, and Proactive Safety & Security’ are what every employee needs to know and do to be most impactful at Amtrak. By living the Amtrak values, focusing on our capabilities, and actively embracing and fostering diverse ideas, backgrounds, and perspectives, together we will honor our past and make Amtrak a company of the future.

 

Job Summary

The Capital Workforce Planning team has overall responsibility and oversight of workforce planning for Amtrak’s Capital Delivery Department that implements Amtrak’s Capital improvement projects and programs.

This Mgr Workforce Planning Analytics will work collaboratively with the Capital Workforce Planning team, Capital Delivery Department managers and leaders with planning, organization, and implementation of the Capital Delivery hiring processes focusing on data, analysis, and efficient utilization of resources with a primary focus on long-term project staffing, and staffing transitions across projects.

The position will support managing staffing plans for management headcount in Capital Delivery, and support development of a tool to manage transition of staff between capital projects.

This position will also be involved in annual and long-term planning needs for project staffing requirements over the lifetime of a project.

Essential Functions

• Act as a point of contact to partner with key stakeholders to understand workforce requirements in terms of headcount, budget, & skills needed now and in the future. 
• Collaborate with department heads to determine length of time on a project, existing headcount details, future headcount needs, hire timing, and timing for headcount transitions.
• Understand and ability to develop and maintain Capital Delivery headcount database, develop models & reporting systems to support the long-term staffing plans and provide annual headcount projections or reductions.
• Adapt to business shifts and changes and support identifying new talent requirements or scaling back on hiring plans.
• Support the end-to-end cycle of workforce planning from collection during the annual operation plan to tracking related forecast processes through effective design and data management, and reconciliation.
• Leverage internal and external data, trends, analytics, and insights to assess talent gaps, forecast resource needs, and model future scenarios to accurately identify and prioritize talent risks and opportunities.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent combination of education, training and/or relevant experience. 
• Plus 7 years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent combination of education, training and/or relevant experience. 
• Plus 9 years of relevant work experience.
• Demonstrated experience modelling workforce trends and analytics, including the utilization of various forms of data analysis.
• Advanced knowledge of people metrics with ability to explain the data insights.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Proven workforce planning experience with understanding capital projects staffing and right sizing project staffing.
• Knowledge of forecasting and workforce planning. Emphasis on large capital construction projects a plus.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, and the ability to communicate at various levels in the organization.
• Detail driven to be able to maintain data in different sources and ensure data integrity and accurate reporting.
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of database solutions for updating data and developing reporting in MS Solutions.
• Experience with data visualization tools, Power BI preferred
• Experience with MS Office Suite including Word, Excel, and Visio.
• Experience with managing SharePoint Site content.
• Experience with MS Forms or other resource for information intake.
• Proven ability to meet deadlines, prioritize demands and solve problems creatively.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, and the ability to communicate at various levels in the organization.
• Demonstrated ability to work with senior management to develop strong business partnerships and relationships.

The salary/hourly range is $113,200.00 – $146,664.00. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. Depending on an employee’s assigned worksite or location, Amtrak may consider a geo-pay differential to be applied to the employee’s base salary. Amtrak may offer additional incentive and pay programs to recognize and reward our employees, including a short-term incentive bonus based upon factors such as individual and company performance that is commensurate with the level of the position and/or long-term incentive plan compensation. In addition to your salary, Amtrak offers a comprehensive benefit package that includes health, dental, and vision plans; health savings accounts; wellness programs; flexible spending accounts; 401K retirement plan with employer match; life insurance; short and long term disability insurance; paid time off; back-up care; adoption assistance; surrogacy assistance; reimbursement of education expenses; Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility; Railroad Retirement sickness and retirement benefits; and rail pass privileges. Learn more about our benefits offerings here.

 

Requisition ID: 165566

Work Arrangement: 06-Onsite 4/5 Days Click here for more information about work arrangements at Amtrak.
Relocation Offered: No
Travel Requirements: Up to 25%

You power our progress through your performance.

We want your work at Amtrak to be more than a job. We want your career at Amtrak to be a fulfilling experience where you find challenging work, rewarding opportunities, respect among colleagues, and attractive compensation. Amtrak maintains a culture that values high performance and recognizes individual employee contributions.

Amtrak is committed to a safe workplace free of drugs and alcohol. All Amtrak positions requires a pre-employment background check that includes prior employment verification, a criminal history check and a pre-employment drug screen.

Candidates who test positive for marijuana will be disqualified, regardless of any state or local statute, ordinance, regulation, or other law that legalizes or decriminalizes the use or possession of marijuana, whether for medical, recreational, or other use. Amtrak's pre-employment drug testing program is administered in accordance with DOT regulations and applicable law.

In accordance with DOT regulations (49 CFR § 40.25), Amtrak is required to obtain prior drug and alcohol testing records for applicants/employees intending to perform safety-sensitive duties for covered Department of Transportation positions. If an applicant/employee refuses to provide written consent for Amtrak to obtain these records, the individual will not be permitted to perform safety-sensitive functions.

 

In accordance with federal law governing security checks of covered individuals for providers of public transportation (Title 6 U.S.C. §1143), Amtrak is required to screen applicants for any permanent or interim disqualifying criminal offenses.

Note that any education requirement listed above may be deemed satisfied if you have an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

Amtrak is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/color, to include traits historically associated with race, including but not limited to, hair texture and hairstyles such as braids, locks and twists, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related conditions, such as lactation), national origin/ethnicity, disability (intellectual, mental and physical), veteran status, marital status, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, genetic information, citizenship or any other personal characteristics protected by law.

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