Senior Specialist Rail and Transit

At Mott Mac Donald, we are driven by purpose and powered by brilliant people. As a trusted engineering, management, and development consultancy, we work with clients to solve complex challenges and deliver sustainable outcomes that make a meaningful difference for the communities we serve.

When you join us as an experienced professional, you will bring your expertise to work that matters while continuing to grow your career. You will collaborate with talented colleagues across disciplines and geographies, contribute your perspective, and help shape better outcomes through technical excellence, innovation, and integrity.

Build on your experience while helping shape what comes next. At Mott Mac Donald, you'll work alongside talented people on complex and rewarding projects that make a real difference. We value fresh perspectives, encourage collaboration, and provide opportunities to expand your skills, take on new challenges, and grow your career. Whether you're deepening your technical expertise, broadening your leadership experience, or exploring new opportunities across our business, you'll be supported by a team that is committed to helping you succeed.

The Senior ATC Specialist will primarily have responsibility for supporting ATC maintenance and engineering, by providing oversight and direct assistance with issues that arise.

Some of the key responsibilities of the position would include:

• Engineering support for preventive and corrective maintenance activities
• Engineering support for construction activities
• Engineering support for normal rail transit system challenges
• Attend meetings and conference calls representing ATC maintenance as required
• Provide Engineering Bulletins as required to keep ATC maintenance personnel aware of changes to equipment, configuration changes, temporary changes, or safety issues that arise
• Make recommendations for field changes to correct circuit deficiencies or to safely compensate for deteriorating equipment until it is replaced or repaired, whilst adhering to documentation control standards and procedures to document changes
• Work with ATC maintenance to investigate Loss of Shunt alarms and recommend and confirm corrective actions
• Work with ATC maintenance for routine troubleshooting of track circuit problems – Audio Frequency track circuits and AC track circuits
• Investigate routine and unusual system failure incidents to determine root cause and provide direction for corrective action
• Create engineering modification documentation to be checked and installed in field.
• Check field installations against latest drawings of train control system.

Our team of professionals provides cost-effective and innovative engineering solutions for the North American transportation and infrastructure industry with unprecedented success. We’re looking for an ATC engineer to join our team to continue this traction and invite applications from candidates with:

• A Bachelor's degree in electrical engineer and a minimum of 10 years or other technical training with a minimum of 20 years of progressive experience in the design, construction, or maintenance of ATC transit, ATC systems, or railroad signaling
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, AutoCAD, and using a variety of electronic test equipment.
• Experience with Procore or similar configuration management software is required.
• Experience writing technical procedures, developing specifications, and writing detailed reports to document system anomalies and make recommendations to mitigate risks, hazards, or replace faulty design or equipment.

Bring your expertise, curiosity, and drive to make a difference. If you are ready to join a collaborative consultancy where your perspective is valued, your growth is supported, and you are empowered…