Department: Charlotte Area Transit System Department
Salary: $81,226.00 - $116,762.94 Commensurate with Experience
Thank you for your interest in joining the team that keeps Charlotte moving, at a very exciting time for our organization. At the Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS), we’re committed to delivering safe, reliable, and innovative transit services for our growing community, and we value employees who bring professionalism, passion, and a commitment to public service.
This position is currently employed by CATS, a department of the City of Charlotte. With the passage of the PAVE Act and last year’s sales tax referendum, CATS is preparing to transition from a City department to the newly created Metropolitan Public Transit Authority (MPTA). The MPTA was established to strengthen regional transit governance, improve accountability, and support long‑term investment in mobility. It’s an important and exciting step forward for transit in our region.
Employees hired into this role will remain City employees through December 31, 2026, and will transition to MPTA employment on January 1, 2027. Benefits and compensation will follow City provisions through 2026 and shift to MPTA provisions in 2027, with clear information shared in advance. Your core duties, reporting structure, and daily responsibilities will remain consistent, with no break in service. If anything delays the transition, your City employment, including compensation and benefits, will remain in place until the move to the MPTA occurs.
The creation of the MPTA positions us for a more modern, sustainable, and efficient transit system, one that can better support the Charlotte region for decades to come. We’re excited about what’s ahead and appreciate your interest in being part of it.
SUMMARY
The Asset Management Analyst performs professional analytical work in support of CATS’ Transit Asset Management (TAM) program. The position is responsible for collecting, validating, analyzing, and reporting asset-related data that informs lifecycle planning, State of Good Repair performance, condition assessment activities, and capital investment decision-making. Working under general supervision, the role applies established analytical methods, reporting practices, and data governance standards to support a reliable and decision-supportive asset management program.
This position serves as a key analytical resource within the TAM function. Work includes developing dashboards, condition and age profiles, lifecycle and performance summaries, reliability metrics, and other recurring and ad hoc analyses related to fleet, facilities, infrastructure, systems, and equipment. The role works closely with maintenance, facilities, operations, finance, planning, procurement, and other stakeholders to validate asset data, review condition and inspection results, reconcile records across systems, identify performance trends, and support renewal and replacement prioritization.
The Asset Management Analyst helps strengthen CATS’ asset stewardship by improving the quality and usability of asset data, supporting stronger lifecycle and performance analysis, reinforcing consistent reporting and documentation practices, and helping ensure TAM activities are informed by reliable information and practical operational context.
Duties and Responsibilities
The following duties are standard for this position. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the classification if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment for this classification.
Asset Data Analysis and Lifecycle Support
- Analyzes asset condition, age, performance, utilization, and risk data to support lifecycle planning, renewal timing, and investment prioritization for assigned asset classes or program areas.
- Develops profiles, trend analyses, and summary information related to asset age, condition, replacement backlog, useful life benchmarks, and other lifecycle indicators.
- Supports analysis used to evaluate State of Good Repair status, asset criticality, and capital reinvestment needs.
- Assists in documenting lifecycle assumptions, replacement logic, and analytical methods used to support TAM decision-making.
Performance Monitoring and Reliability Analysis
- Monitors and analyzes asset performance indicators such as failure trends, reliability measures, inspection results, repair history, warranty recovery information, and related operational or maintenance data.
- Helps identify recurring issues, deterioration patterns, emerging risks, and opportunities for reliability improvement or better investment timing.
- Supports development of asset performance dashboards, KPI summaries, and exception reporting for management review.
- Assists in translating technical findings into practical observations that support maintenance, planning, and asset management action.
TAM Reporting and Regulatory Support
- Prepares recurring and ad hoc reports, dashboards, board materials, and supporting analyses related to the TAM program, asset performance, and State of Good Repair measures.
- Assists in preparing FTA TAM reports, annual updates, executive briefings, oversight materials, and other documentation required for internal and external use.
- Organizes analytical outputs and supporting records in a manner that is clear, traceable, and aligned with TAM program requirements.
- Supports reporting cycles tied to compliance, capital planning, performance management, and oversight review needs.
- Compiles and validates asset inventory, condition, and performance data required for the annual National Transit Database (NTD) reporting, and assists in preparing related submissions and supporting documentation.
Data Quality, Validation, and System Reconciliation
- Conducts data validation and quality checks on asset records, inspection results, maintenance history, and related information maintained in CMMS, EAM, financial, and other systems.
- Reconciles records across systems and departments and identifies inconsistencies, missing information, classification issues, or documentation gaps requiring correction or follow-up.
- Helps maintain datasets used to support TAM reporting, lifecycle analysis, and performance monitoring.
- Supports stronger asset data governance by promoting consistency in data definitions, structures, update practices, and reporting logic.
Condition Assessment and Capital Planning Support
- Assists with condition assessment programs by reviewing field inspection results, compiling condition data, supporting quality checks, and organizing information for analysis and reporting.
- Supports multi-year capital prioritization reviews by assembling and analyzing data related to asset condition, useful life, risk, reliability, and replacement need.
- Helps document cost, lifecycle, and performance assumptions used in renewal planning and capital development.
- Coordinates with TAM staff and internal partners to ensure analytical outputs support practical and defensible asset investment decisions.
Process Documentation and Continuous Improvement
- Documents analytical methods, business processes, data workflows, and reporting practices used in support of the TAM program.
- Recommends improvements to dashboards, data structures, validation methods, templates, and analytical tools based on recurring issues and observed needs.
- Supports development of more consistent and efficient approaches to TAM data analysis and reporting.
- Participates in continuous improvement efforts related to asset information quality, reporting usefulness, and lifecycle decision support.
Cross-Functional Coordination
- Works with maintenance, facilities, operations, finance, planning, procurement, development, and technology staff to gather data, validate information, and support aligned asset management reporting and analysis.
- Responds to data and reporting requests from internal stakeholders and supports shared understanding of asset information and TAM outputs.
- Communicates findings, discrepancies, and follow-up needs clearly and professionally.
- Supports coordinated problem-solving and dependable analytical service across the TAM program.
Core Competencies
The position requires demonstrated competency in the following areas:
- Asset and Lifecycle Analysis – Ability to analyze asset condition, performance, age, and lifecycle information in a manner that supports practical and well-informed asset management decisions.
- Evaluates asset data critically and identifies meaningful trends and conditions.
- Connects lifecycle information to renewal timing and investment implications.
- Produces useful analysis that supports TAM planning and prioritization.
- Data Quality and Governance – Ability to maintain reliable asset information and support disciplined data validation, reconciliation, and reporting practices.
- Verifies information across systems and identifies inconsistencies or gaps.
- Supports consistent use of definitions, structures, and reporting logic.
- Helps improve integrity and usability of asset-related data.
- Reporting and Analytical Communication – Ability to prepare clear, accurate, and decision-useful dashboards, reports, summaries, and supporting materials.
- Presents technical findings in a structured and understandable way.
- Tailors analytical outputs to leadership, program, and compliance needs.
- Maintains supporting documentation that is clear and traceable.
- Problem Solving and Analytical Judgment – Ability to interpret trends, investigate discrepancies, and apply sound professional judgment within established TAM and reporting frameworks.
- Recognizes patterns, anomalies, and issues requiring further review.
- Connects technical findings to operational, maintenance, and capital implications.
- Recommends practical follow-up steps supported by evidence.
- Collaboration and Service Orientation – Ability to work effectively across departments and provide responsive analytical support to asset management, maintenance, and planning stakeholders.
- Builds constructive working relationships across multiple functions.
- Follows through on requests and shared work needs.
- Contributes to coordinated problem-solving and dependable service.
- Initiative and Work Organization – Ability to manage recurring reporting tasks and analytical assignments with consistency in a deadline-driven environment.
- Organizes workload effectively across regular cycles and special projects.
- Balances detail-oriented reporting work with broader analytical assignments.
- Recognizes when issues should be elevated or coordinated with others.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in public administration, business administration, finance, planning, engineering, asset management, data analytics, transportation, or a related field and two (2) years of progressively responsible professional experience in asset management, data analysis, performance reporting, maintenance analysis, capital planning support, transit planning, infrastructure analysis, or a related field; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Experience collecting, validating, analyzing, or reporting operational, maintenance, asset, financial, or performance data.
- Experience using spreadsheets, databases, reporting tools, visualization tools, or enterprise systems to support analysis and reporting.
- Experience preparing dashboards, summaries, reports, or analytical materials for internal stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in public transit, transportation, public infrastructure, facilities, or another asset-intensive environment.
- Experience with FTA Transit Asset Management concepts, State of Good Repair performance measures, or capital asset planning processes.
- Experience with CMMS, EAM, financial systems, BI tools, GIS, or other systems used to manage and analyze asset information.
- Experience supporting condition assessment, reliability analysis, lifecycle planning, or capital prioritization.
- Experience preparing board, executive, compliance, or audit-related reporting materials.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Knowledge of:
- Asset lifecycle concepts, condition assessment methods, reliability fundamentals, and asset performance indicators.
- Data governance, data validation, reporting practices, and analytical documentation methods.
- Transit maintenance, facilities, operations, or capital planning environments.
- Federal TAM requirements, State of Good Repair concepts, and related asset management performance measures.
- Spreadsheets, databases, data visualization tools, and enterprise systems used for asset or maintenance information.
Skill in:
- Analyzing quantitative and qualitative data and identifying useful patterns, trends, and issues.
- Building dashboards, charts, summaries, and structured reports.
- Reconciling data across systems and validating information for accuracy and completeness.
- Using spreadsheets, reporting tools, visualization tools, and standard office software effectively.
- Communicating technical findings clearly in writing and in meetings.
Ability to:
- Work collaboratively with operations, maintenance, facilities, planning, finance, procurement, and other internal partners.
- Investigate data discrepancies and support improvements to data quality and reporting consistency.
- Balance recurring reporting responsibilities with analytical project work and special assignments.
- Apply sound judgment in interpreting asset-related data and reporting findings.
- Maintain organized, traceable analytical support materials and documentation.
- Meet deadlines and perform consistently within a structured reporting cycle.
Working Environment and Physical Demands
- Works primarily in an office and meeting environment with regular coordination with operations, maintenance, facilities, planning, finance, procurement, and other stakeholders.
- Requires regular use of computers, spreadsheets, databases, enterprise systems, reporting tools, and other standard office and communication equipment.
- May attend maintenance facilities, operations sites, yards, stations, offices, and other CATS locations to support data validation, field coordination, or program review.
- Requires frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching, and handling of documents and related materials.
- May occasionally be required to work outside standard business hours to support reporting deadlines, audits, special analyses, or program needs.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the role.
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
The City’s Background Check Policy requires background checks to be conducted on final internal or external candidate(s) applying for any position with the City of Charlotte. The type of information that will be collected as part of a background check includes, but is not limited to: reference checks, social security verification, education verification, criminal conviction record check, and, if applicable, a credit history check, sex offender registry and motor vehicle records check.
Background checks must be in compliance with all federal and state statutes, such as the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). The checks must be consistent with the guidelines set forth by these laws requiring organizations to obtain a candidate’s written authorization before obtaining a criminal background report, motor vehicle records check or credit report; and to properly store and dispose of information derived from such reports.
Final candidates must pass a pre-employment drug-screening test and physical examination. During the selection process, candidates may be asked to take a skills test, and/or participate in other assessments.
The City of Charlotte is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, marital status, age, disability, sexual orientation, political affiliation or on the basis of actual or perceived gender as expressed through dress, appearance, or behavior.
Our culture is to serve the community honorably.
HOW TO APPLY
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