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Job Description
Marketing Statement
Ride BART to a satisfying career that lets you both: 1) make a difference to Bay Area residents, and 2) enjoy excellent pay, benefits, and employment stability. BART is looking for people who like to be challenged, work in a fast-paced environment, and have a passion for connecting riders to work, school and other places they need to go. BART offers a competitive salary, comprehensive health benefits, paid time off, and the CalPERS retirement program.
Job Summary
Salary
Minimum $96,242 /Annually - Maximum $115,485 /Annually (BPOA)
Note: Externals will start at step 1: $46.27/ hour ( $96,242/Annually)
Who May Apply
All current BART employees and qualified individuals who are not yet BART employees.
Report To
Deputy Police Chief or designee.
Days Off
As assigned. Note: Must be willing to do shift work with varied days off and weekends.
Department
BART Police Department is a progressive agency and has been on the forefront - and in some cases the model approach to training in the areas of fair and impartial policing, bias-based policing, crisis intervention, cultural competence training, and de-escalation training. The mission of the BART Police Department is to ensure a safe environment within our transit system, reduce crime through a highly visible police presence, and proactive enforcement of the law, and to promote public confidence by working in partnership with our stakeholders and the communities we serve.
Current Assignment
Under general supervision, guards and protects District Cash and Treasury personnel and assets during transport and collection, handling and stocking of cash from coin changers and fare machines at stations, and at the District's Cash Handling Building; drives armored trucks, crew transport vans and semi-tractor trailers; and performs related work as assigned.
Other Requirements
1. Achieve Certification in Firearms and Arrest Training within six months of employment.
2. Must have a valid California driver's license, a satisfactory driving record.
3. Must be able to obtain a Class A California Commercial driver's license whenever feasible to do so, at the District’s discretion.
4. Class “A” drivers are required to pass an annual physical to maintain class “A” status.
5. Must pass an 832 Penal Code (arrest control, firearms) course and qualify at quarterly department range programs.
6. Must be able to work various shifts, weekends, holidays and overtime.
Selection Process
This position is represented by the BART Police Officers Association (BPOA). The selection process for this position may include a skills/performance demonstration, a written examination, and/or an individual or panel interview. Applicants must pass each phase to progress in the selection process. The following details the various phases of the selection process:
Phase 1: Skills Assessment
Phase 2: Minimum qualifications screening
Phase 3: Practical Exercise & Oral Panel Interview
Phase 4: Extensive background screening
Note: The selection process may be modified at the discretion of the hiring department.
The successful candidate must have an employment history demonstrating reliability and dependability; provide copies of certificates, diplomas or other documents as required by law, including those establishing his/her right to work in the U. S.; pass a pre-employment medical examination which includes a drug and alcohol screen, and which is specific to the essential job functions and requirements. Pre-employment processing will also include a background check. (Does not apply to current full-time District employees unless specific job requires additional evaluations)
Examples of Duties
Essential Job Functions
1. Guards and protects District cash and assists Treasury personnel during transport, handling, collection and stocking of cash.
2.0Carries and utilizes firearms and batons; wears protective gear and operates communication equipment.
3. Operates an armored vehicle, truck tractor with semi-trailer and a passenger van to assigned stations to receive and transport cash collection and change supply.
4. Protects cash handling operation and secures District revenues from internal and external threats.
5. Maintains surveillance of station activities during cash collection, handling and loading; drives crew vans and protects crews.
6. Controls access to the Cash Handling Building; performs surveillance in person, by video camera, and by videotape of cash handling activities, cash vault, and building security.
7. In emergencies, assumes control of the situation to ensure the safety of lives, cash and property.
8. Maintains contact by radio and telephone with District police dispatcher to inform of emergencies, suspicious activities, routes, location of work, and security of cash and facilities.
9. Interacts with District employees, patrons and the public.
10. Assists in selection of transport routes and overrides others on route selection when security requires.
11. Maintains inventory control of equipment and supplies, issues radios, cleans and maintains shotguns.
12. Maintains custody of security-controlled keys.
13. Prepares and maintains logs of work locations, times in and out, hours and machine problems.
14. Checks operating conditions of trucks and vans and services gas, oil, water, tires and lights.
15. Prepares written reports.
Minimum Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
Education:
Possession of a high school diploma, GED or recognized equivalent.
Experience:
Experience in security and protective services and in driving vehicles, tractor trailers or other trucks is desirable.
Other Requirements:
Achieve Certification in Firearms and Arrest Training within six months of employment.
Must have a valid California driver's license, a satisfactory driving record.
Must be able to obtain a Class A California Commercial driver's license whenever feasible to do so, at the District’s discretion.
Class “A” drivers are required to pass an annual physical to maintain class “A” status.
Must be able to pass a background investigation, including psychiatric examination, fingerprinting and polygraph.
Must possess physical strength and ability to subdue and apprehend persons attacking the treasury crew or vehicles.
Must be at least 21 years old at appointment.
Must pass an 832 Penal Code (arrest control, firearms) course and qualify at quarterly department range programs.
Must be able to work various shifts, weekends, holidays and overtime.
WORKING CONDITIONS
Environmental Conditions:
Office environment; station environment.
Physical Conditions:
Requires physical condition necessary for walking, standing or sitting for prolonged periods of time and occasional lifting of supplies and equipment.
Knowledge and Skills
Knowledge of:- Locations and characteristics of District stations, fare collection, cash handling and related facilities and devices.
- Procedures governing revenue collection and protection activities.
- Legally required conditions for drawing and using firearms.
- Operation, cleaning, maintenance and safe handling of firearms.
- Techniques for observation and surveillance on security assessments.
- Conditions under which to initiate emergency action.
- Procedures and terminology for radio and telephone police communications.
Skill in:- Observing people and activity to assess security conditions.
- Operating firearms accurately and responsibly.
- Dealing tactfully and authoritatively with patrons and the general public, including hostile, abusive, and disorderly people.
- Remaining calm and making rational decisions in dangerous/emergency situations.
- Operating alarm and security systems, radios, videos and telephones.
- Reading maps and planning and varying transport routes for security.
- Operating motor vehicles safely, including armored trucks, transport vans and semi-tractor trailers.
- Keeping records and writing brief reports.
Equal Employment Opportunity GroupBox1
The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants shall not be discriminated against because of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age (40 and above), religion, national origin (including language use restrictions), disability (mental and physical, including HIV and AIDS), ancestry, marital status, military status, veteran status, medical condition (cancer/genetic characteristics and information), or any protected category prohibited by local, state or federal laws.
The BART Human Resources Department will make reasonable efforts in the examination process to accommodate persons with disabilities or for religious reasons. Please advise the Human Resources Department of any special needs in advance of the examination by emailing at least 5 days before your examination date at employment@bart.gov .
Qualified veterans may be eligible to obtain additional veteran's credit in the selection process for this recruitment (effective Jan. 1, 2013). To obtain the credit, veterans must attach to the application a DD214 discharge document or proof of disability and complete/submit the Veteran's Preference Application no later than the closing date of the posting. For more information about this credit please go to the Veteran's Preference Policy and Application link at www.bart.gov/jobs .
The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) prides itself in offering best in class benefits packages to employees of the District. Currently, the following benefits may be available to employees in this job classification.
Highlights- Medical Coverage (or $350/month if opted out)
- Dental Coverage
- Vision Insurance (Basic and Enhanced Plans Available)
- Retirement Plan through the CA Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS)
- 2% @ 55 (Miscellaneous Members - Classic)
- 2% @ 62 (Miscellaneous Members - PEPRA)
- 3% @ 50 (Safety Members - Classic)
- 2.7% @ 57 (Safety Members - PEPRA)
- Reciprocity available for existing members of many other public retirement systems (see BART website and/or CalPERS website for details)
- 6.65% employer contribution up to annual maximum of $1,868.65
- Sworn Officers & Police Dispatchers: No floating holidays or observed holidays, but 6.6% pay differential provided above base pay rate
- Non-Sworn Staff: 9 observed holidays and 4 floating holidays
Closing Date/Time: 1/12/2025 11:59 PM Pacific -
ABOUT THE COMPANY
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BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit)
Show moreThe BART story began in 1946. It began not by governmental fiat, but as a concept gradually evolving at informal gatherings of business and civic leaders on both sides of the San Francisco Bay. Facing a heavy post-war migration to the area and its consequent automobile boom, these people discussed ways of easing the mounting congestion that was clogging the bridges spanning the Bay. In 1947, a joint Army-Navy review Board concluded that another connecting link between San Francisco and Oakland would be needed in the years ahead to prevent intolerable congestion on the Bay Bridge. The link? An underwater tube devoted exclusively to high-speed electric trains.
Since 1911, visionaries had periodically brought up this Jules Verne concept. But now, pressure for a traffic solution increased with the population. In 1951, the State Legislature created the 26-member San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit Commission, comprised of representatives from each of the nine counties which touch the Bay. The Commission's charge was to study the Bay Area's long range transportation needs in the context of environmental problems and then recommend the best solution.
The Commission advised, in its final report in 1957, that any transportation plan must be coordinated with the area's total plan for future development. Since no development plan existed, the Commission prepared one itself. The result of their thoroughness is a master plan which did much to bring about coordinated planning in the Bay Area, and which was adopted a decade later by the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG).
The BART Concept is Born
The Commission's least-cost solution to traffic tie-ups was to recommend forming a five-county rapid transit district, whose mandate would be to build and operate a high-speed rapid rail network linking major commercial centers with suburban sub-centers.The Commission stated that, "If the Bay Area is to be preserved as a fine place to live and work, a regional rapid transit system is essential to prevent total dependence on automobiles and freeways."
Thus was born the environmental concept underlying BART. Acting on the Commission's recommendations, in 1957, the Legislature formed the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, comprising the five counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo. At this time, the District was granted a taxing power of five cents per $100 of assessed valuation. It also had authority to levy property taxes to support a general obligation bond issue, if approved by District voters. The State Legislature lowered the requirement for voter approval from 66 percent to 60 percent.
Between 1957 and 1962, engineering plans were developed for a system that would usher in a new era in rapid transit. Electric trains would run on grade-separated right-of-ways, reaching maximum speeds of 75-80 mph, averaging perhaps 45 mph, including station stops. Advanced transit cars, with sophisticated suspensions, braking and propulsion systems, and luxurious interiors, would be strong competition to "King Car " in the Bay Area. Stations would be pleasant, conveniently located, and striking architectural enhancements to their respective on-line communities.
BART employees in the 1970s.
Hundreds of meetings were held in the District communities to encourage local citizen participation in the development of routes and station locations. By midsummer, 1961, the final plan was submitted to the supervisors of the five District counties for approval. San Mateo County Supervisors were cool to the plan. Citing the high costs of a new system-plus adequate existing service from Southern Pacific commuter trains - they voted to withdraw their county from the District in December 1961.
With the District-wide tax base thus weakened by the withdrawal of San Mateo County, Marin County was forced to withdraw in early 1962 because its marginal tax base could not adequately absorb its share of BART's projected cost. Another important factor in Marin's withdrawal was an engineering controversy over the feasibility of carrying trains across the Golden Gate Bridge.
BART had started with a 16-member governing Board of Directors apportioned on county population size: four from Alameda and San Francisco Counties, three from Contra Costa and San Mateo, and two from Marin. When the District was reduced to three counties, the Board was reduced to 11 members: four from San Francisco and Alameda, and three from Contra Costa. Subsequently, in 1965, the District's enabling legislation was changed to apportion the BART Board with four Directors from each county, thus giving Contra Costa its fourth member on a 12-person Board. Two directors from each county, hence forth, were appointed by the County Board of Supervisors. The other two directors were appointed by committees of mayors of each county (with the exception of the City and County of San Francisco, whose sole mayor made these appointments).
The five-county plan was quickly revised to a three-county plan emphasizing rapid transit between San Francisco and the East Bay cities and suburbs of Contra Costa and Alameda counties. The new plan, elaborately detailed and presented as the "BART Composite Report, " was approved by supervisors of the three counties in July 1962, and placed on the ballot for the following November general election.
The plan required approval of 60 percent of the District's voters. It narrowly passed with a 61.2 percent vote District-wide, much to the surprise of many political experts who were confident it would fail. Indeed, one influential executive was reported to have said: "If I'd known the damn thing would have passed, I'd never have supported it. "
The voters approved a $792 million bond issue to finance a 71.5 mile high-speed transit system, consisting of 33 stations serving 17 communities in the three counties. The proposal also included another needed transit project: rebuilding 3.5 miles of the San Francisco Municipal Railway. The new line would link muni streetcar lines directly with BART and Market Street stations, and four new Muni stations would be built.
The additional cost of the transbay tube -- estimated at $133 million -- was to come from bonds issued by the California Toll Bridge Authority and secured by future Bay Area Bridge revenues. The additional cost of rolling stock, estimated at $71 million, was to be funded primarily from bonds issued against future operating revenues. Thus, the total cost of the system, as of 1962, was projected at $996 million. It would be the largest single public works project ever undertaken in the U.S. by the local citizenry.
After the election, engineers immediately started work on the final system designs, only to be halted by a taxpayer's suit filed against the District a month later. The validity of the bond election, and the legality of the District itself, were challenged. While the court ruled in favor of the District on both counts, six months of litigation cost $12 million in construction delays. This would be the first of many delays from litigation and time-consuming negotiations involving 166 separate agreements reached with on-line cities, counties, and other special districts. The democratic processes of building a new transit system would prove to be major cost factors that, however necessary, were not foreseen.
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