**Description** **About The Port Authority:** Founded in 1921, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey builds, operates, and maintains many of the most important transportation and trade infrastructure assets in the country. The agency's network of aviation, ground, rail, and seaport facilities is among the busiest in the country, supports more than 550,000 regional jobs, and generates more than twenty three billion in annual wages and eighty billion in annual economic activity. The Port Authority also owns and manages the 16-acre World Trade Center site, where the 1,776-foot-tall One World Trade Center is now the tallest skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere. **About The Port Department:** The Port Department is one of the five-line department businesses of the PANYNJ. It is responsible for managing the largest port complex on the East Coast and the second largest in the nation. It operates a highly competitive and dynamic business in a very complex political environment. The Port is an economic engine that provides over 580,000 jobs in the region and nearly $240 billion in annual economic activity. For the past 20 years, the Port has been preparing itself for the growing demand for increased trade resulting in more cargo and for the rapid migration to ever larger vessels. Together with our Port tenants, nearly $15 billion in new infrastructure, equipment and systems has been invested to ensure that Port of New York and New Jersey remains the premier East Coast gateway with even more investment in capacity planned and underway. As a landlord Port, the Port Authority leases property to tenants that operate Port facilities. Since we do not directly handle cargo, we must influence the efficiency and productivity of the port in more strategic ways. Today, the challenges in this area continue to grow. Improving Port productivity requires a more collaborative approach. The Port Department has taken a strong leadership role in driving the changes necessary to keep the Port of New York and New Jersey highly competitive while ensuring growth in a safe, secure, sustainable and resilient way. The Port Authority is a unique government body serving both the States of New York and New Jersey, mandated to be financially self-sufficient. As such, increasing revenues while remaining competitive is a major challenge for the Port Department moving forward. **Functional Oversight** Reporting to the Director of the Port Department, the **_Deputy Port Director_** is a member of the senior management team of the Port Department and is responsible for oversight of the Department's facilities, business services, commercial development, planning and capital program delivery. **Key Responsibilities:** + Represent the Director in all matters related to managing the Port Department, as needed. + Oversee and provide direction to the Departmental leadership that manages and directs all aspects of facility operations, maintenance, regulatory compliance (safety, security, environmental), commercial development, business services, planning and capital project delivery, while providing for meaningful and measurable improvements in how we serve the global supply chain, deliver critical infrastructure improvements, and support the communities in which we operate. + Provide strategic guidance on the development and implementation of procedures to protect existing revenue, generate new revenue sources and obtain maximum productivity/capacity of the Port facilities, control expenditures and ensuring that the department generates the maximum net contribution to the Agency. + Provide oversight, leadership, and guidance to matters associated with advancing initiatives that require inter-departmental cooperation. Work with other departments to reach consensus about roles and responsibilities, with a focus on the impact that decisions have on operations, maintenance, capital investment, sustainability, and customer service activities. + Participate in the development of the department's strategic planning and policy agenda, business plan and support initiatives that increase revenue, reduce costs, and improve process efficiency, port efficiency, capacity, and customer service. + Provide strategic direction to all aspects of the Department's asset management programs, including capital and operating project delivery, maintenance management and tenant support services. + Continuously review the department's organizational structure and functions to ensure effective, efficient staff alignments that satisfy the department's mission and vision, while supporting a work climate that embraces diversity and inclusion. Work with department leaders, to ensure staff capability, availability, competence, and motivation. **Position Requirements:** + Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in business administration, Transportation, International Trade, Logistics, Engineering or a related field from an accredited college or univ