ITS Operations & Maintenance Specialist – Chennai ITS

Overview

Senior ITS Operations & Maintenance Specialist to lead supervision and performance monitoring of the Contractor's operations, maintenance and training activities for the Chennai Traffic Information System, City Bus System and Traffic Management System, providing independent review to the Client.

What you'll do

• Supervise the Contractor's O&M and training activities for the Chennai Traffic Information System, City Bus System and Traffic Management System.
• Monitor Contractor performance and verify compliance with the Contract, approved O&M manuals, maintenance schedules and applicable SLAs/KPIs.
• Review preventive, routine, corrective and emergency maintenance activities and recommend corrective actions for delays, repeated failures or non-compliance.
• Monitor system availability, uptime, incident response, restoration time, repeat failures and backlog of unresolved issues.
• Review major incident reports and Root Cause Analysis reports, and track corrective and preventive actions through closure.
• Review O&M staffing, shift arrangements, escalation procedures, tools, spares, warranties, asset records and field-support arrangements.
• Participate in trial operations, operational-readiness reviews, acceptance-related activities and O&M handover assessments, as required.
• Review and supervise training plans, training materials, SOPs and knowledge-transfer activities for Client personnel, operators and maintenance teams.
• Attend meetings with the Client and stakeholders and present O&M status, risks, non-compliances, action plans and recommendations.
• Prepare or contribute to monthly, quarterly, SLA, incident, technical and O&M performance reports.

What you'll need

• Mandatory: Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Systems Engineering or Traffic Engineering, in line with the Consultant RFP.
• RFP minimum eligibility: minimum seven years of working experience in the field of Traffic Management.
• RFP minimum eligibility: minimum three years of working experience in an ITS-related centre.
• Minimum 12 years of overall professional experience, including at least eight years in ITS, traffic management, public transport ITS or smart-mobility assignments.
• Minimum five years of direct experience in ITS operations and maintenance, O&M supervision or technical support management.
• Experience in at least three relevant ITS, Smart City, public transport, traffic-management or command-and-control projects.
• Demonstrated experience in Contractor/System Integrator management, SLA and KPI verification, incident management, preventive and corrective maintenance, operational readiness and acceptance support.
• Experience in Client-facing technical reviews, management reporting, training and knowledge transfer.

Nice to have

• Postgraduate qualification in Transportation Systems, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Traffic Engineering, Systems Engineering, Project Management or a related discipline.
• Relevant professional certification such as PMP, PRINCE2 or ITIL (will be an advantage).

Details

• Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.