2025-2026 Yearlong Safety Data Analyst

Description

Chicago Transit Authority is the second largest transit system in the country! Our college internship program offers summer and year-long internships that provide students with valuable work experience, professional development, and mentorship. Students receive exposure to the discipline of the workplace and are guided by subject matter experts who assist them in acquiring the skills, knowledge, and experience needed to perform in today’s technically demanding careers. Interns at CTA work in a range of departments across the authority.

Our internships are project-based; therefore, the skills that we seek vary based on the needs of the projects during each term. All majors are welcome to apply, but please see education experience / requirements for specifics about what disciplines each internship project is seeking.

Internships are part-time (15 hours a week) during the school year and full-time (40 hours a week) during the summer.

In this role within the Safety department’s SMS unit, interns will :

• Develop an efficient method for extracting essential event data from daily rail and bus operations logs.
• Identify necessary data fields in collaboration with subject matter experts and create a functional database to serve as the foundation for analyzing safety and security events, accidents, and service reliability issues.
• Apply analytical tools to database to assess and identify safety performance trends in fatalities, injuries, accident, and other events.
• Collaborate with subject matter experts to apply analytical techniques to establish leading and lagging indicators to monitor and determine the effectiveness of a safety risk mitigation.

Primary work location for this role : CTA Headquarters (567 W. Lake Street, Chicago Illinois 60661)

Qualifications

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Salary : $17 - $22