Rail Safety & Compliance Oversight Engineer

Peraton; New York (NY); On-site; USD 112,000 - 179,000; Part time

Job summary

Peraton seeks innovative professionals for a Construction Management Oversight Consultant role supporting a large transportation operator in New York. This on-site, contingent-upon-award position involves overseeing third-party wireless and electrical deployments, safety compliance, and daily field reporting to ensure seamless rail facility connectivity and operations.

Ideal candidates have extensive railroad/transit experience, strong communication skills, and the ability to work a flexible

Qualifications

• U.S. citizenship required
• Ability to pass standard background checks including fingerprinting
• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, transportation management, or related field
• Eight years’ progressively responsible experience in a railroad, public transit, or safety-sensitive operating environment
• Knowledge of wireless systems or deploying wireless systems
• Construction oversight experience deploying communication/control technologies for rail systems
• Understanding of Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) and Federal Transit Administration (FTA) rules, including SSPP and GCOR
• Knowledge of state and local safety codes, right-of-way maintenance standards, and accident investigation procedures
• Understanding of rail transit service operations, vehicle maintenance, and signal/track infrastructure
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Must be able to work on a 24x7 shift rotation schedule including weekend shifts

Responsibilities

• Monitor third-party’s safety protocol and compliance with client’s safety guidelines during performance of its work
• Observe clients third-party’s proper and safe job site equipment set up in compliance with client’s policies
• Act as the point of contact on site for third-party, client, and other rail operators Roadway Worker-In-Charge (RWIC), aka Flagman
• Review of third-party’s DAS and fiber designs, engineering and installation drawings for the daily/nightly work for compliance with industry standards and the client’s license agreement
• Record the work completed by third-party and their electrical and other service providers at the end of each day’s shift and document major issues that arise and bring to client’s Project Manager’s attention
• Observe and document third-party’s daily work site cleanup in accordance with the client’s license agreement and safety guidelines.
• Attend and sign in as needed for daily rail operations safety meetings with the various trades
• Daily coordination meeting with on-site trades – provide access to various locations within rail facility
• Daily coordination on-site meetings with client, third-party and electrical foreman to discuss work plans for the day
• Facility Warehouse Control System (WCS) daily planning, coordination and support Teams meetings
• Weekly on-site walk through of active work activities with client, service providers, and support personnel
• Attendance at rail operations weekly coordination outage meeting
• Tracking of device installation and field work submitted on daily field reports (on-going)
• Perform daily on-site job walk throughs and provide field oversight
• Support service providers’ technicians performing troubleshooting tasks as needed
• Coordinate carrier vendor installation with client stations and client Special Projects departments and Project Managers
• Coordinate with electric service providers and rail operations for weekend passenger platform work
• Coordinate installation activities with client stations and client Special Projects departments, rail operations and service provider’s team
• Write and distribute client’s daily field engineer report with attendant photographic confirmation
• Review and coordinate activity closeout punch list with contractor Project Managers
• Coordinate carrier access and integration for data/comms rooms
• Review and markup Head End Comm Room As-Built documents against As-Planned documents and coordinate results with engineers for revisions
• Compile and produce on site OEM manuals in 3-ring binders
• Perform inventory for on-site equipment and distribute
• Perform daily on-site job walk throughs and provide field oversight

Skills

Citizenship requirement

Background check passability

Analytical and problem-solving

Verbal and written communications

24x7 shift readiness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, transportation management, or related field

Master’s degree in business, engineering, transportation management, or related field

Transit Rail Program Certificates (TSSP)

OSHA training

Incident Command System (ICS) certifications

New York P.E. license

Job description

Peraton seeks innovative professionals for a Construction Management Oversight Consultant role supporting a large transportation operator in New York. This on-site, contingent-upon-award position involves overseeing third-party wireless and electrical deployments, safety compliance, and daily field reporting to ensure seamless rail facility connectivity and operations.

Ideal candidates have extensive railroad/transit experience, strong communication skills, and the ability to work a flexible