Pittsburgh Regional Transit is seeking a Regulatory Compliance Safety Officer to report directly to the Chief Safety Officer, this position is responsible for helping ensure PRT’s federal and state Safety Management System (SMS) regulatory compliance as it relates to a variety of key functions, including but not limited to gathering and reporting of safety statistics and data, tracking and ensuring PRT is timely completing open findings identified by both internal and external oversight agency safety audits and inspections, and ensuring key tasks and activities related to ongoing PRT SMS implementation and oversight agency matters are tracked and fully responded to.
In close coordination with the Chief Safety Officer, Deputy Chief Safety Officer, PRT management personnel, employees, and labor union representatives, this position is instrumental in coordinating and monitoring information systems, SMS, and related federal and state safety oversight regulatory and program standard adherence throughout PRT. This position provides exposure to all modes PRT operations and facilities, including but not limited to bus, light rail, inclined plane services, all facilities, vehicle fleets, and infrastructure owned and/or operated by PRT.
Essential Functions:
- Develop and manage various regulatory compliance programs and issues as they relate to the collection and reporting of data and statistics in safety, operations, and maintenance and execute interpretation in a manner to reinforce and promote Safety Management Systems throughout the agency.
- Coordinate and report safety data related to the PRT Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan and Safety Management Systems (SMS). To track, maintain and report on Safety Department records of corrective actions, hazards, and employee injuries. To work in concert with the rest of the Safety Department to support and continue to implement Safety Management System activities across districts through Safety Policy, Safety Risk Management, Safety Assurance, and Safety Promotion.
- Assist the Deputy Chief Safety Officer in maintaining the internal tracking log of corrective action plans, and hazards. This may include updating the log with new items, such as when a corrective action plan is assigned from a final incident report, or a hazard is identified via the hazard reporting system. Update existing open items in the log with status updates.
