Performance & Asset Management Section Manager (Planning Specialist VI) - Denver

About the role

The Performance & Asset Management Section Manager works in the Colorado Department of Transportation's (CDOT's) Office of Multimodal Planning within the Division of Transportation Development (DTD).

The mission of the Office of Multimodal Planning is: "Together, we bring the future into the present by imagining, planning and creating a safe, equitable and sustainable transportation system for all."

The Office of Multimodal Planning (OMP) spearheads CDOT’s transportation planning. The OMP coordinates planning and policy efforts with various partners, including CDOT Regions, Transportation Planning Regions (TPRs), Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs), and other stakeholders such as the freight industry, bicycle and pedestrian advocates, and local, state, and federal agencies.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the development of a statewide corridor planning program that integrates asset management, performance, resiliency, and multimodal planning into corridor-level investment strategies.
• Provide leadership to integrate performance and asset management programs into corridor planning utilizing data analysis.
• Establish corridor planning methodologies, prioritization criteria, and scopes.
• Acknowledge corridor plans and ensure consistency with statewide plans.
• Ensure all necessary data is analyzed, comprehensive, and can be understood by the general public when it is included in corridor planning.
• Collaborate to create new visions for each corridor and how each one can better align with current land use, anticipated land use, bike/ped, transit, freight, and other factors.
• Provide strategic management and oversight of CDOT’s asset management program.
• Use advanced data analysis to integrate asset management directly into corridor planning, guiding transportation investment decisions.
• Oversee the development of the Transportation Asset Management Plan (TAMP), asset modeling, and funding strategies.
• Ensure asset data informs statewide planning and corridor planning.
• Work with staff to establish statewide asset management policies, priorities, and methodologies.
• Provide strategic leadership and management for CDOT’s statewide performance management framework, including the Annual Performance Plan, Wildly Important Goals (WIGs), and state and federal performance requirements.
• Use advanced data analysis to integrate performance outcomes directly into corridor planning.
• Invent and change system and guidelines that will be applied by others statewide regarding the integration of performance data into tactical corridor plans and agency-wide investments.
• Provide strategic leadership for integrating risk and resiliency into CDOT’s transportation planning, asset management, and operations.
• Use advanced data analysis of climate, hazard, and vulnerability metrics to integrate strategies directly into corridor-level planning.
• Oversee the development of foundational risk policies and statewide assessment tools.
• Invent and change systems and guidelines that will be applied by others statewide as it relates to the integration of risk into asset management and corridor planning.
• Provide supervision and ensure integration across all programs within the section.
• Align program outcomes with CDOT strategic goals and executive direction.
• Administer the performance program for all employees to include regular performance feedback.
• Maintain quality control and efficiency of work.
• Coach, mentor, and train employees.
• Address personnel issues and mediate conflicts ensuring appropriate documentation and notification.
• Implement policies and procedures in a fair and consistent way and ensure policies, procedures and directives are followed.
• Support organizational change efforts and communicate with personnel.
• Foster a positive working environment.
• Operate CDOT vehicles as required.

Requirements

• At least nine (9) years of professional experience in transportation, transit, urban, city, regional or rural planning; land use; business administration; finance; political science; public administration; geography; civil engineering or other work closely related to the main duties of this position.
• At least (5) years of this experience must have been professional experience in land use; transportation, transit, environmental, urban, city, regional, and/or statewide planning.
• Must have at least one year of supervisory experience, involving planning and directing the work of professional employees.

Qualifications

• A combination of relevant education and experience equal to at least nine (9) years.
• Coursework from a U.S. accredited college or university in experience in transportation, transit, urban, city, regional or rural planning; land use; business administration; finance; political science; public administration; geography; civil engineering or another field closely related to the main duties of this position will be considered.
• Professional experience in land use; transportation, transit, environmental, urban, city, regional, and/or statewide planning will be considered.
• Must have at least one year of supervisory experience, involving planning and directing the work of professional employees.