Project Manager - Train Control

WSP; New York (NY); On-site; USD 195,000 - 281,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Retirement savings

Job summary

WSP Global Inc. is seeking an experienced Project Manager - Train Control to lead a major MTA NYCT CBTC program in a 24/7 transit environment.

The role requires coordinating scope, design, construction, schedule, cost, risk, contracts, and systems integration across multiple contractors and NYCT stakeholders, with senior leadership responsibilities and a focus on safety and operational readiness.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in engineering, construction management, project management, or related field.
• 10+ years leading CBTC, signaling, or integrated rail systems programs.
• Senior PM experience managing multi-contractor, multi-stakeholder rail/transit programs.

Responsibilities

• Provide overall project management leadership for CBTC, interlockings, track, and related infrastructure.
• Establish governance, scope, plans, metrics, decision protocols, and escalation processes across contracts.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams including NYCT, designers, contractors, CBTC suppliers, operations, safety, and quality.

Skills

CBTC

Rail project management

Project controls

Scheduling

Stakeholder comm.

Leadership

Safety & compliance

Contract administration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/CM/PM

Master's degree in Engineering/CM/MBA/PM

Tools

Primavera P6

Power BI

Unifier

MS Project

Job description

This Opportunity

WSP is initiating a search for an experienced Project Manager - Train Control to support delivery of a major MTA NYCT Communications-Based Train Control program line.

This senior leadership role will provide project management oversight for a multi-billion-dollar brownfield rail program integrating CBTC with complex interlockings, significant track and switch work, communications infrastructure, tunnel lighting, power, and other enabling infrastructure within an active 24/7 transit environment.

The Project Manager will lead integration of scope, design, construction, schedule, cost, risk, contracts, systems integration, testing, commissioning, and operational readiness across multiple contractors and NYCT stakeholders.

Your Impact

• Provide overall project management leadership for CBTC and associated interlocking, track, switch, communications, tunnel lighting, power, civil, structural, vehicle, and control-center work.
• Establish and maintain project governance, scope, execution plans, responsibilities, performance metrics, decision protocols, and escalation processes across multiple contracts and stakeholders.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams involving NYCT, designers, consultants, construction contractors, CBTC suppliers, operations, maintenance, project controls, safety, quality, and commercial personnel.
• Direct systems integration and interface management across CBTC, complex interlockings, conventional signaling, track and Special Work Packages (SWP), radio and communications networks, rolling stock, power, tunnel infrastructure, and control-center systems.
• Coordinate track and switch modifications, ensuring alignment among track geometry, switches, interlockings, signaling, CBTC, traction power, construction sequencing, access, and testing requirements.
• Manage interfaces with Boldyn and other communications infrastructure, including radio, fiber/network infrastructure, equipment locations, power, access, installation, testing, and commissioning.
• Coordinate tunnel lighting and enabling infrastructure with CBTC installation, track work, power, outages, access, and construction sequencing.
• Direct multidisciplinary design management, including requirements, interfaces, configuration control, constructability, design reviews, technical submittals, verification and validation, and resolution of issues before they affect construction or testing.
• Oversee/ manage the Integrated Master Schedule, integrating design, procurement, manufacturing, software, SWP/track work, interlockings, communications, tunnel infrastructure, construction, outages, testing, certification, and revenue-service milestones.
• Lead project controls for scope, schedule, cost, risk, contingency, forecasting, change, and performance reporting, with particular focus on critical-path activities and interfaces among contracts. Develop and Manage Project Control Points/ EAC from the client overall project perspective.
• Manage contracts, changes, and commercial issues, including contractor notices, RFIs, change proposals, claims, entitlement, cost and schedule impacts, trends, and emerging commercial exposure.
• Lead brownfield construction integration, including track access, General Orders, outages, service diversions, staging, work trains, temporary systems, installation sequencing, and restoration of service while minimizing impacts to revenue operations.
• Direct integrated testing and commissioning across CBTC, interlockings, track and switches, communications, vehicles, and supporting infrastructure, including readiness reviews, defect resolution, cutovers, and revenue-service acceptance.
• Coordinate system safety, construction safety, cybersecurity, quality, verification and validation, safety certification, and operational readiness, ensuring hazards and assurance requirements are resolved prior to service.
• Lead cutover and transition planning, including migration, fallback/rollback, operating procedures, maintenance readiness, training, emergency response, asset documentation, and service restoration.
• Provide concise executive reporting on project performance, critical path, cost, risk, contractor performance, commercial exposure, major interfaces, and decisions required.
• Lead resolution of complex issues spanning technical, construction, operational, contractual, and organizational boundaries and elevate matters as necessary to protect project objectives.
• Develop and lead the project team, establish clear accountability, mentor project and discipline leads, and promote a culture of safety, collaboration, accountability, and proactive problem solving.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or closely related discipline.
• 15+ years of progressively responsible experience delivering complex rail, transit, or major infrastructure projects.
• 10+ years of leadership experience involving CBTC, train control, signaling, or integrated rail systems.
• Senior project-management experience on a major rail or transit program valued at $200 million or more, with responsibility for scope, schedule, cost, risk, contracts, and multidisciplinary delivery.
• Experience delivering brownfield rail systems projects in an active passenger-rail or metro environment.
• Experience integrating CBTC/signaling with complex interlockings, track, switches, communications, power, civil, structural, and supporting infrastructure.
• Demonstrated understanding of the full project lifecycle, including design, procurement, construction, systems integration, testing, commissioning, operational readiness, and closeout.
• Experience managing multiple contractors and complex technical, construction, schedule, and contractual interfaces.
• Strong experience with integrated master scheduling, project controls, risk management, change control, contract administration, claims avoidance, and schedule-impact assessment.
• Working knowledge of systems engineering, including requirements, interfaces, configuration management, verification and validation, and systems assurance.
• Working knowledge of applicable train-control standards and practices, including IEEE 1474 and relevant CENELEC standards.
• Strong leadership, communication, negotiation, decision-making, conflict-resolution, and executive presentation skills.
• Proven commitment to construction, railroad, and system safety.
• Ability to work from client offices and project sites in New York City and support nights, weekends, outages, testing, and cutovers as required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business Administration, Project Management, or related discipline.
• PMP certification.
• Leadership experience on a multi-billion-dollar rail or transit megaproject.
• Experience with NYCT or a comparable urban rapid-transit system.
• Direct experience integrating/delivering CBTC, complex interlockings, track/switch reconstruction, communications infrastructure, and tunnel systems.
• Experience with systems safety certification, cybersecurity assurance, quantitative schedule/cost risk analysis, and operational readiness.
• Experience with Primavera P6, Power BI, Unifier, or comparable project-controls platforms.

Working Conditions

Regular work from client offices and project locations in New York City is required. The position will require periodic nights and weekends associated with track access, outages, construction, testing, commissioning, and CBTC cutovers. Field activities will include active railroad and construction environments subject to applicable safety and access requirements.

Compensation and Benefits

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits supporting employees' health, financial stability, and long-term careers, including medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation or personal time; paid parental leave; and other applicable paid leave.

• medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance
• retirement savings
• paid sick leave
• paid vacation or personal time
• paid parental leave
• other applicable paid leave

Expected Salary Range: $194,900 to $280,860

WSP USA provides the compensation range that it believes in good faith it may pay for this position. Final compensation will consider the successful candidate's education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, internal equity, and geographic location.