An LIRR M7 prepare at Hudson Yards.
File Photograph by Paul Frangipane
Any common subway rider has heard the adverts – the MTA is hiring. As its Chief Administrative Officer, I’m in command of overseeing these efforts to put good, certified folks in the precise jobs to maintain tens of millions of New Yorkers transferring from Montauk to Poughkeepsie and in every single place in between.
It takes a village. The MTA workforce is 74,000-strong – roughly the identical because the inhabitants of Schenectady – making us one of many largest employers in all of New York State. Riders work together most frequently with bus and prepare operators, however our group has a full vary of employment alternatives out there: engineering and design, sure, but additionally finance, legislation, IT, environmental science and plenty of different areas.
The depth and variety of expertise have allowed us to start out doing extra work in-house. Utilizing company employees as a substitute of third-party contractors helps us to boost accountability, effectivity and cost-containment, and you’ll see examples of that success all around the system.
These platform boundaries now holding riders secure in 100 subway stations? They have been constructed by the Upkeep of Approach division at New York Metropolis Transit. The hundreds of safety cameras which were put in in stations and prepare automobiles? Executed by MTA technicians. Even improvement of the brand new MTA app was an in-house IT operation, a undertaking that the majority undoubtedly would have been outsourced prior to now.
Actual New Yorkers are the power behind these upgrades, and we’re all the time on the lookout for extra expertise to hitch our group. There are two methods to get an MTA job – by taking one of many civil service exams, scoring properly and getting a placement, or by making use of for a administration or administrative place on our web site.
We’re additionally centered on constructing relationships with colleges and universities to create a bridge between the classroom and the workforce. MTA’s partnership with the CUNY system locations a whole lot of scholars at undergraduate and graduate ranges into paid internships yearly. We even have a longstanding reference to Transit Tech Excessive College.
Irrespective of the place you might be in your profession, there’s a place for you on the MTA. So, the following time you hear that acquainted announcement, know that it’s greater than only a recruitment pitch — it’s an invite to assist form the way forward for transportation in New York.
Ms. Camilo is the MTA’s Chief Administrative Officer.
