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At the Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS), we’re committed to delivering safe, reliable, and innovative transit services for our growing community, and we value employees who bring professionalism, passion, and a commitment to public service.\nThis position is currently employed by CATS, a department of the City of Charlotte. With the passage of the PAVE Act and last year’s sales tax referendum, CATS is preparing to transition from a City department to the newly created Metropolitan Public Transit Authority (MPTA). The MPTA was established to strengthen regional transit governance, improve accountability, and support long-term investment in mobility. It’s an important and exciting step forward for transit in our region.\nEmployees hired into this role will remain City employees through December 31, 2026, and will transition to MPTA employment on January 1, 2027. Benefits and compensation will follow City provisions through 2026 and shift to MPTA provisions in 2027, with clear information shared in advance. Your core duties, reporting structure, and daily responsibilities will remain consistent, with no break in service. If anything delays the transition, your City employment, including compensation and benefits, will remain in place until the move to the MPTA occurs.\nThe creation of the MPTA positions us for a more modern, sustainable, and efficient transit system, one that can better support the Charlotte region for decades to come. We’re excited about what’s ahead and appreciate your interest in being part of it.\nSUMMARY\nThe Engineering Manager provides technical leadership, project and program oversight, and multidisciplinary coordination for engineering initiatives supporting CATS capital delivery, system modernization, rehabilitation, facility improvements, infrastructure upgrades, and other engineering-related priorities. Depending on assignment, this position may oversee work associated with rail, bus, facilities, systems, utilities, civil works, vertical construction, accessibility, special projects, or other engineering programs requiring strong technical judgment and disciplined project execution.This role serves as a manager-level engineering lead responsible for translating agency goals, operational needs, planning inputs, technical standards, and stakeholder requirements into practical engineering solutions and coordinated delivery approaches. Work includes engineering review, consultant and contractor coordination, technical decision support, procurement support, implementation and field coordination, risk identification, documentation oversight, and support for turnover into operations and maintenance. The position works across internal departments, outside consultants, contractors, utilities, regulators, and partner agencies to help ensure engineering work is safe, feasible, maintainable, compliant, and aligned with long-term agency objectives.\nThe Engineering Manager helps strengthen CATS’ engineering function by improving technical consistency, supporting sound and well-documented engineering decisions, coordinating effective delivery across a portfolio of assigned work, and helping ensure projects and programs are implemented in a manner that supports safety, operational continuity, lifecycle stewardship, and public accountability.\nMajor Duties and Responsibilities:\nThe following duties are standard for this position. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the classification if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment for this classification.\nProgram and Project Leadership\nLeads assigned engineering programs, projects, or technical workstreams, including planning, design review, implementation support, and transition into operations or maintenance as applicable.\n\nEstablishes work priorities, technical expectations, project approaches, and coordination structures for assigned engineering initiatives.\n\nHelps define scope, objectives, assumptions, constraints, and execution strategies for projects that may vary in size, complexity, delivery method, and technical discipline.\n\nTracks progress, risks, dependencies, and engineering support needs across multiple concurrent assignments.\n\nTechnical Review and Engineering Stewardship\nOversees or performs engineering review of plans, specifications, reports, studies, calculations, models, submittals, 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implementation timing, regulatory requirements, and broader agency priorities.\n\nSupports collaborative resolution of technical and programmatic issues across disciplines and departments.\n\nProcurement, Consultant, and Contractor Support\nSupports development of scopes of work, procurement documentation, technical requirements, bid support materials, and consultant or contractor selection inputs.\n\nCoordinates consultant and contractor activities related to design, technical services, implementation support, field issue resolution, and technical closeout.\n\nReviews work products and monitors performance to help ensure consultant and contractor work is timely, complete, and aligned with agency expectations.\n\nSupports contract administration activities, technical negotiations, task order development, and amendment review as assigned.\n\nImplementation, Field Coordination, and Turnover\nProvides engineering guidance during implementation, field coordination, testing, commissioning, activation, and turnover activities as needed.\n\nParticipates in site visits, inspections, coordination meetings, technical reviews, and issue resolution efforts involving active work environments.\n\nHelps ensure engineering changes, field conditions, and implementation issues are addressed in a manner consistent with agency standards and project objectives.\n\nSupports technically sound transition of completed work into operations, maintenance, and system-of-record documentation.\n\nEngineering Governance and Documentation\nEnsures engineering documentation adheres to agency governance standards, technical review expectations, document control requirements, and turnover procedures.\n\nMaintains organized records of reviews, approvals, technical comments, decisions, assumptions, risks, and follow-up actions.\n\nSupports traceability, technical consistency, and defensibility of engineering work products and program decisions.\n\nHelps strengthen engineering governance and disciplined 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results-oriented manner.\nMaintains focus on priorities, scope, quality, and follow-through across multiple assignments.\n\nHelps translate agency needs into practical engineering approaches.\n\nSupports reliable execution in both structured and evolving project environments.\n\nTechnical Review and Judgment - Ability to evaluate engineering issues and support sound technical decisions that reflect safety, constructability, maintainability, and agency standards.\nReviews technical materials carefully and logically.\n\nIdentifies issues affecting compliance, implementation, or long-term performance.\n\nSupports practical and defensible engineering solutions.\n\nCross-Functional Coordination - Ability to work effectively across departments, disciplines, and stakeholder groups to support engineering delivery.\nCoordinates effectively across internal and external groups.\n\nSupports alignment between engineering work and operational or programmatic needs.\n\nHelps resolve cross-functional 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