Careers at COTA
Join Team COTA
Together, we move every life forward
At COTA, we’re looking for people with drive – the drive to advance your career, the drive to help your colleagues grow and the drive to move every life forward. If that sounds like you, then consider a career with Team COTA! We offer fantastic benefits, a pension, tuition reimbursement and so much more. If you’re ready to switch lanes, then apply for an open role at COTA today.
Open Positions
COTA hires for a wide range of positions, including:
- Transit Operator
- Mechanic or Technician
- Coach Cleaner
- Customer Care Advocate
- Administrative Staff (President’s Office, External Relations, Finance, Human Resources, Infrastructure, Engineering and Maintenance, Innovative & Technology, Legal Affairs, Customer Care, Transportation Operations, Mobility Services, Vehicle Maintenance and Vehicle Engineering)
- And more!
Employee Benefits
COTA is a people-first company. To help you thrive personally and professionally, we offer comprehensive benefits.
- Industry-leading wages for frontline employees
- Comprehensive insurance for employees and their dependents: medical/prescription, dental, vision
- Health flexible and dependent care spending accounts
- Retirement/savings benefits: Ohio Public Employees Retirement System (OPERS), 457(B) Deferred Compensation Plan
- Time off: vacations, holiday, sick pay
- Healthy living benefits: biometric screening, fitness and wellness reimbursement
- Basic life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance
- Disability insurance: short-term and long-term
- Unlimited fixed-route COTA access
- Moving your life forward: personal training and development, job advancement, and employee assistance program (EAP)
- Full-Paid Family Leave: full-time and part-time employees are eligible for up to 12 weeks of paid family leave
- Tuition reimbursement and student loan repayment programs
Culture and Community
We intentionally create opportunities to gather and celebrate as a team, with family fun days, a “Roadeo” and so much more. COTA consistently earns recognition for our workplace culture, community involvement and industry leadership.
COTA Ambassadors
The purpose of the Ambassador Program is to build camaraderie among COTA team members while serving at community events by engaging and educating customers and stakeholders about our organization.
COTA Employee Resource Groups
Through our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), we organize food drives, free produce drops, resources for Veterans, toy donations and so much more. ERGs are voluntary, employee-led groups organized around a shared interest or identity. They help create a welcoming, supportive workplace and strengthen our mission, values, goals and business objectives by serving as a resource for both their members and the broader organization.
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Questions?
Contact us at TalentAcquisition@cota.com.