Senior Project Manager

We’re seeking Senior Project Managers to support large, complex heavy civil infrastructure programs, including highways, roads, bridges and transit (bus and rail), delivered through both traditional and alternative delivery methods. You’ll oversee delivery of rail systems on a major passenger rail program in several areas, including traction power, OCS, or wayside communications. We’re looking for real depth in one or more, plus the project management discipline to carry work packages from design through testing, energization, and handover to operations.

These are long-term, full-time, on-site positions located in Sacramento, CA, with 25% to 50% travel required.

Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Oversee rail systems work packages in traction power, OCS, or wayside communications, from design and procurement to field installation, testing, energization, and handover to operations.
• Maintain accountability for cost, schedule, scope, risk, and contractor delivery on assigned work packages, and support forecasting, change management, and executive reporting.
• Coordinate interfaces between systems disciplines (traction power, OCS, signaling, communications, and SCADA) and the civil, track, structures, stations, maintenance facility, and operations teams.
• May review design packages, equipment submittals, and technical studies for the assigned discipline (such as load flow and protection studies for traction power, catenary layouts for OCS, or network and radio coverage designs for communications), and track comments through to closure.
• Perform field reviews of installation progress, and verify that installed work conforms to approved drawings, specifications, governing standards, and safety requirements.
• Coordinate approvals from utilities, host railroads, regulators, local jurisdictions, and authorities having jurisdiction (AHJs), including utility interconnections, energization authorizations, and permit conditions.
• Coordinate outage planning, electrical safety for railway work, and readiness for energization and operations.
• Oversee test plans and commissioning procedures, including Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), Site Acceptance Testing (SAT), System Integration Testing (SIT), and dynamic testing across systems disciplines.
• Coordinate resolution of field issues, Requests for Information (RFIs), design changes, utility conflicts, and installation sequencing constraints.
• Support closeout of defects and punch list items, commissioning and acceptance records, revenue service demonstration, and the start of passenger operations.

Attributes

• Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent multi-tasking and organizational skills.
• Collaborative mindset that fosters teamwork, trust, and positive relationships.
• Natural curiosity, problem-solving abilities, and a commitment to continuous improvement.
• Steady leadership and stakeholder management with technical teams, utilities, and regulators.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, systems engineering, telecommunications engineering, or railway engineering, or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 10+ years of rail systems or electrical project management experience for large, complex, heavy civil passenger transit or DOT infrastructure programs.
• Experience delivering traction power, OCS, or communications systems across the full lifecycle, from design to commissioning and system acceptance.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams, contractors, equipment suppliers, and consultants across interfacing systems.
• Experience obtaining approvals from utilities, regulators, host railroads, or AHJs.
• Experience with integrated testing programs,…