JOB DESCRIPTION

General Description

The Opportunity

Metro Transit is looking for a strategic, detail-driven Transit Planning and Scheduling Manager to help shape the future of public transit in our city.

In this role, you'll lead the team that designs how Metro moves Madison—overseeing bus routes, stops, public schedules, operator shift schedules, long-range service planning, and data analysis. Your work will directly impact daily riders, frontline staff, and the long-term vision of our transit system.

You'll play a key leadership role at Metro, balancing big-picture planning with hands-on problem solving through your team to deliver reliable, efficient, and equitable transit service for our community.

Our Organization

Metro Transit has strong transit fundamentals with a major university, a constrained street grid, and strong financial support from the local government. This has allowed Metro to have more robust transit service compared to population peers nationally, running 193 buses and providing over 11 million rides in 2025. Metro is a department of the City of Madison and has contracts with surrounding communities and the University of Wisconsin to provide regional service. In the last several years, Metro has completed a full system redesign, rolled out our initial Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line, and added 65 electric buses to our system.

Our Community

The City of Madison was recently included in National Geographic's 2027 Best of the World must-visit destinations. A thriving food scene, more than 200 miles of bike paths and trails, five beautiful lakes, excellent healthcare, and of course great transit work together to help meet Madison's vision to be inclusive, innovative and thriving.

See who else agrees!

As a member of the Senior Management Team at Metro, members will:

• Support and promote collaborative efforts to achieve mission requirements
• Infuse racial equity goals, principles, and tools into all aspects of Metro Transit operations
• Promote teamwork
• Communicate openly and candidly
• Participate fully in discussions
• Employ techniques for problem solving and decision making

Minimum Qualifications

• Four (4) years of progressively responsible professional transit or transportation planning experience which included independent responsibility for developing and coordinating related professional planning activities
• One (1) year of experience leading people as a supervisor, lead worker, team leader responsible to direct work/enforce deadlines, or other leadership capacity (could be within the planning experience or in another work setting)

-OR-

• Bachelor's degree in transportation planning or other directly related field
• Two (2) years of responsible professional transit or transportation planning experience which included independent responsibility for developing and coordinating related professional planning activities
• One (1) year of experience leading people as a supervisor, lead worker, team leader responsible to direct work/enforce deadlines, or other leadership capacity (could be within the planning experience or in another work setting)

BENEFITS

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