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This Opportunity The Transit & Rail Design Manager leads the planning, design, and delivery of complex rail and transit infrastructure projects throughout the US region. This role provides technical leadership and program-level oversight for multidisciplinary teams delivering conceptual planning through final design, permitting support, and construction-phase engineering services for heavy rail, commuter rail, light rail, BRT, stations, yards/shops, interlockings, bridges, tunnels, and supporting civil/utility works. This position will be based out of our New York, NY Office . Your Impact + Technical leadership: Serve as the discipline/design lead for transit and rail projects, establishing design criteria, technical approaches, and quality expectations across the project lifecycle. + Program and project management: Plan and manage scope, budget, schedule, and resourcing for multiple concurrent assignments; develop work plans, staffing plans, and cost forecasts; monitor performance and implement corrective actions. + Design development: Guide production of concept alternatives, preliminary engineering, and final design packages, including alignment/track geometry, civil/site, drainage, utilities, structures interfaces, roadway interfaces, station layouts, and maintainability considerations. + Rail systems coordination: Coordinate with signaling, traction power, communications, fare collection, and systems integration teams to ensure constructible, operable designs and well-defined interfaces. + Constructability and phasing: Develop and review construction staging, work windows/outage plans, temporary works concepts, and rail service maintenance (MOW) strategies to minimize operational impacts. + Code, standards, and compliance: Ensure designs comply with applicable regulations/standards (e.g., FRA, FTA, MTA/LIRR/Metro-North standards, AREMA, NFPA 130, ADA, AASHTO as applicable) and project-specific design criteria. + QA/QC and risk management: Implement discipline QA/QC plans; lead independent technical reviews; manage design risks, technical issues logs, and decision registers. + Permitting and third-party approvals: Support environmental and permitting documentation and obtain third-party approvals/clearances (utilities, municipalities, railroads, agencies); coordinate design responses to comments. + Construction support: Provide engineering during construction including RFIs/submittals review, design clarifications, field changes, and as-built record support. + Mentorship and team development: Coach and develop engineers and designers; establish best practices, templates, and training for transit/rail design delivery. Who You Are Required Qualifications + Experience: 15+ years of progressive experience in transit and/or rail infrastructure planning, design, and delivery, including leadership of multidisciplinary design teams on complex, operationally constrained projects. + 20 years of experience preferred. + Education: Bacheloru2019s degree in Civil Engineering or related engineering discipline (Masteru2019s degree a plus). + Technical background: Demonstrated expertise in civil/trackway and corridor design and coordination with rail systems and structures; strong understanding of design criteria development, interface management, and constructability. + Standards knowledge: Working knowledge of applicable rail/transit codes and standards (e.g., FRA/FTA, AREMA, NFPA 130, ADA) and agency-specific criteria used in the NY region. + Project controls: Proven ability to manage scope, schedule, budget, and resources; experience with cost estimating, forecasting, and change management. + Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including ability to lead technical presentations and author/review design narratives, basis-of-design reports, and technical memoranda. + Authorization: Ability to work in the United States without sponsorship (or as required by employer policy). Preferred Qualifications + New York State P.E. license. + Experience delivering projects for NY/NJ regional agencies and owners (e.g., MTA/NYCT, LIRR, Metro-North, NJ TRANSIT, Amtrak, PANYNJ, NYSDOT, NYC DOT), including navigating their review and approval processes. WSP Benefits WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employeeu2019s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings. Compensation Expected Salary (all locations): $195,300-$370,000. WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicantu2019s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicantu2019s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law. #LI-AC1 About WSP WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper. WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employeeu2019s career. At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started? WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status. The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States. 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