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Job Description
Metro’s mission is to provide a world-class transportation system that enhances the quality of life for all who live, work, and play within LA County.
Description
Performs supervisory, administrative, and technical duties in the Warehouse, Logistics, Inventory Control, and Materiel Management Operations while ensuring compliance and adherence to all safety rules, regulations, and goals.
Examples of Duties- Oversees storerooms and monitors stock orders in support of inventory management
- Plans, organizes, and monitors the daily Logistics activities, including issuing materiel, credits/returns, cores, restocking receipts, and truck dispatch at assigned warehouses and storerooms
- Develops budgets, schedules, and staffing requirements
- Resolves problems related to warehousing, storekeeping, and inventory control operations
- Uses computerized recordkeeping systems to monitor and maintain material inventories
- Organizes the distribution and inspection of materials and supplies
- Ensures assignments and work comply with union contracts
- Conducts first-level disciplinary hearings and grievances
- Reviews supply/equipment requests and no-stock report
- Directs the filling and delivery of orders
- Processes required forms and reports
- Works with Materiel Planning and Procurement to analyze and adjust materiel and equipment requirements
- Develops procedures related to handling and distribution of stock items
- Conducts safety inspections and meetings
- Ensures proper and safe storage of fuels, lubricants, and other hazardous materials
- Coordinates special storeroom projects
- Oversees the cycle counting and random sampling activities at warehouses and storerooms
- Meets with key stakeholders at the warehouses and storerooms to address materiel needs
- Ensures preventive maintenance is performed on mechanical and electrical units
- Ensures that proper fire protection and climate control are in proper order for indoor storage
- Ensures security is maintained at warehouses and storerooms
- Supervises and trains subordinates at Logistics warehouses and storerooms
- Accounts for subordinates and personal compliance with all of Metro's safety rules, polices, and procedures
May be required to perform other related job duties
Minimum Qualifications
A combination of education and/or experience that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the essential functions of the position. Additional experience, as outlined below, may be substituted for required education on a year-for-year basis. A typical combination includes:
Education- None required
- Three years of relevant lead experience in a warehouse/storeroom environment; experience in material handling in a transportation, military, fleet, utilities, or mining warehouse/storeroom environment preferred; experience utilizing materiel management software in an automated warehouse or inventory control environment preferred
- Frequent exposure to chemical, physical, mechanical, electrical, and weather hazards
- Work various shifts and weekends as required
- Shift work
- Must comply with all California Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Cal/OSHA) regulations and utilize approved safety equipment and personal protective gear including, but not limited to, respirators, eye and hearing protective devices (HPD), if and when required
- Valid California Class C Driver License
Essential Knowledge
Knowledge of (defined as a learned body of information that is required for and applied in the performance of job tasks)- Theories, principles, and best practices of warehousing, distribution, inventory of materiel, handling and storage of hazardous or construction material, and applicable environmental regulations
- Applicable local, state, and federal laws, rules, and regulations governing environmental concerns, hazardous waste handling, and storage in a public agency
- Preventive maintenance of stored electrical and mechanical equipment and track material
- Wall to wall cycle counts, random sampling, and reconciliation of inventories
- Automated and manual materiel handling systems
- Principles of supervision
- Applicable bus software applications
- Planning, organizing, and monitoring the work of subordinates Analyzing situations, identifying problems, and recommending solutions
- Exercising judgment in making decisions
- Communicating effectively both orally and in writing
- Interacting professionally with various levels of Metro employees and outside representatives
- Operating computers and general office equipment
- Investigate incidents for root cause and recommend corrective action
- Work effectively in a union environment
- Develop strategies to achieve goals
- Understand, interpret, and apply laws, rules, regulations, policies, procedures, contracts, budgets, and labor/management agreements
- Prepare comprehensive reports and correspondence
- Supervise, train, and motivate subordinates
- Administer discipline, as necessary
- Travel to offsite locations
- Read, write, speak, and understand English
- This job specification is not to be construed as an exhaustive list of duties, responsibilities, or requirements
- The physical demands described are representative of those that must be met by the employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job
- Metro provides reasonable accommodation to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions
- Contributes to ensuring that the Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) policies and programs of Metro are carried out
- Typical office situation
- Close exposure to computer monitors and video screen
- Stockroom or warehouse
- Extensive safety training and/or use of protective devices and personal protective gear
- Sitting at a desk or table
- Operate a telephone or other telecommunications device and communicate through the medium
- Type and use a keyboard and mouse to perform necessary computer-based functions
- Standing
- Walking (distance 5' to 100')
- Communicating through speech in the English language required
Metro is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, ancestry, national origin, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, religion, age, veteran status, or disability. Learn more about Metro’s Equal Employment Opportunity Program . Metro does not deny participation in the application process to anyone with prior justice system involvement, in line with Fair Chance hiring practices.
Selection Procedure
Applicants who best meet job-related qualifications will be invited to participate in the examination process that may consist of any combination of written, performance, or oral appraisal to further evaluate job-related experience, knowledge, skills and abilities.
Application Procedure
To apply, visit Metro's website at www.metro.net and complete an online Employment Application.
Computers are available to complete online Employment Applications at the following Metro locations:
METRO Headquarters, Employment Office
One Gateway Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Open: Monday through Friday, 8am-4pm
(Closed Sat & Sun)
Metro Talent Hub
8501 S. Evermont Place
Los Angeles, CA 90044
Open: Monday through Friday, 9am-5pm
(Closed Sat & Sun)
East Los Angeles Customer Center
4501 B Whittier Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90022
Open: Tuesday through Saturday, 10am to 6pm
(Closed Sun & Mon)
Wilshire/Vermont Customer Center
3183 Wilshire Blvd, Ste 174
Los Angeles, CA 90010
Open: Monday through Friday, 10am-6pm
(Closed Sat & Sun)
Rosa Parks Customer Center
Willowbrook/Rosa Parks Station
11720 Wilmington Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90059
Open: Monday through Friday, 6am to 6:30pm
(Closed Sat & Sun)
Telephone: (213) 922-6217 or persons with hearing or speech impairments can use California Relay Service 711 to contact Metro.
All completed online Employment Applications must be received by 5:00 p.m. on the closing date. Late applications will not be considered.
*Open to the public and all Metro employees
This job bulletin is not to be construed as an exhaustive list of duties, responsibilities, or requirements. Employees may be required to perform other related job duties.
PTSC BENEFITS
We offer a range of high-quality medical, dental and vision plan options as well as health care spending accounts for you and your family. Metro will cover a significant portion of your health care premiums.
Medical/Dental/Vision Plan- Employee has the choice of 3 separate medical plans and 3 dental plans. A separate vision plan is included in each medical plan.
Group Life Insurance- PTSC pays for an amount equal to your annual salary, rounded up to the nearest $1,000. Minimum amount of life insurance is $30,000.
Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance- PTSC provides $50,000 coverage for each employee. Additional voluntary coverage in amounts up to $500,000 is available at favorable premium rates.
Long-Term Disability Insurance- 100% employer paid. Provides employees with a minimum income of 60% of earnings after six months of disability. Buy up or buy down options available.
Holidays- 12 days a year: New Year's Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Presidents' Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veterans' Day, Cesar E Chavez, Juneteenth,Thanksgiving Day, Day After Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day.
Time off with Pay (TOWP)- Compensates employees who are on approved absence from work for reasons such as illness, injury, medical and dental appointments, personal business, vacation, or observance of (a) religious holiday.
Years of Service Annual Accrual
Hire date - 5 years20 days
Beginning of 6th - 10th year25 days
Beginning of 11th - 15th year30 days
Beginning of 16th + years35 days
Pension Plan- PTSC retirement plan is the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS). Vesting is five (5) years. Minimum retirement age is 52, based on the 2% at 62 formula.
Other Benefits: Transportation passes for employees and/or eligible dependents; Medicare; Tuition reimbursement; credit union membership; SDI; Deferred Compensation Plan; 401(K) Thrift plan; EAP; Medical and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts; Flexible work schedules; and Jury Duty Pay.
Closing Date/Time: 2/18/2026 5:00 PM Pacific -
ABOUT THE COMPANY
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Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority - LA Metro
Show moreLos Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) is unique among the nation’s transportation agencies. It serves as transportation planner and coordinator, designer, builder and operator for one of the country’s largest, most populous counties. More than 9.6 million people – nearly one-third of California’s residents – live, work, and play within its 1,433-square-mile service area. Our goal is to provide safe, clean, reliable, on-time, courteous service dedicated to providing Los Angeles County with a world class transportation system.
Metro moves Los Angeles County. Our team operates one of the country’s largest transportation systems – and is planning, designing and constructing its expansion. We are a comprehensive transportation agency, with programs in transit, highways, active transportation and more. The agency’s internationally recognized sustainability programs are based on visionary environmental policies and are part of everything we do.
Come Aboard!
Join Metro’s team of dedicated transportation professionals and help provide the people of Los Angeles County with one of the most effective and efficiently operated mass transit systems in the entire country. Metro offers a variety of employment opportunities that present exciting challenges and growth opportunities in an outstanding work environment.
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