Transportation Engineer

Kundlas Consulting Group LLC is a professional consulting firm specializing in construction inspection and compliance services for public infrastructure projects. Our core services include on-site inspection of roadway, bridge, and utility construction to ensure adherence to engineering specifications, safety standards, and contract requirements. We support clients with daily reporting, materials testing coordination, schedule tracking, and quality assurance oversight. Additional services include project management, grants management for federally funded infrastructure and disaster recovery programs.

The Transportation Engineer will support MTA New York City Transit’s Department of Subways (DOS) in the CBTC Modernization Program. The role will lead operational readiness and organizational transformation efforts required to transition DOS from conventional signaling systems to a CBTC operating and maintenance environment. The position will coordinate across MTA departments to ensure workforce, processes, resources, training, governance, and operational capabilities are prepared for successful CBTC implementation.

• Bachelor’s degree in Transportation Management, Engineering, Operations Management, or a related field.
• Extensive experience in transit operations, rail operations, maintenance, or transportation systems.
• Demonstrated experience leading organizational transformation, operational readiness, or change-management initiatives.
• Strong understanding of Communication Based Train Control (CBTC) systems and their operational and maintenance implications.
• Experience developing and implementing operational readiness, transition, or transformation plans.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate across large, complex, multi-layered organizations.
• Experience working with executive leadership, technical teams, operational personnel, and frontline staff.
• Strong knowledge of operational governance, safety requirements, compliance, and program reporting.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and stakeholder-management skills.

• Experience supporting a large urban rail or rapid-transit system.
• Previous experience with MTA, New York City Transit, or another major public transportation agency.
• Experience supporting CBTC implementation, signal modernization, rail systems integration, or similar transportation technology programs.
• Experience developing organizational structures and operating models for centralized rail operations and maintenance.
• Experience conducting workforce, process, resource, skills, and organizational gap assessments.
• Experience coordinating operational readiness with systems engineering, capital programs, testing, commissioning, and transition-to-operations activities.
• Experience developing workforce transition strategies, training programs, operating procedures, and maintenance procedures.
• Knowledge of transit safety management, systems assurance, configuration management, testing, commissioning, and operational acceptance.
• Experience coordinating staffing, budgets, procurement, and funding requirements for major programs.
• Professional certification or formal training in change management, project management, program management, systems engineering, or transportation operations is preferred.

• Lead development and implementation of the operational readiness and transformation plan for the Department of Subways’ transition to CBTC.
• Define organizational, operational, maintenance, workforce, technology, and governance requirements necessary to support CBTC operations.
• Identify gaps in staffing, technical capabilities, training, procedures, systems, processes, and resources and develop strategies to address identified…