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Develop and Manage Project Control Points/ EAC from the client overall project perspective. \nManage contracts, changes, and commercial issues, including contractor notices, RFIs, change proposals, claims, entitlement, cost and schedule impacts, trends, and emerging commercial exposure.\nLead 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.\nDirect 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.\nCoordinate system safety, construction safety, cybersecurity, quality, verification and validation, safety certification, and operational readiness, ensuring hazards and assurance requirements are resolved prior to service.\nLead cutover and transition planning, including migration, fallback/rollback, operating procedures, maintenance readiness, training, emergency response, asset documentation, and service restoration.\nProvide concise executive reporting on project performance, critical path, cost, risk, contractor performance, commercial exposure, major interfaces, and decisions required.\nLead resolution of complex issues spanning technical, construction, operational, contractual, and organizational boundaries and escalate matters as necessary to protect project objectives.\nDevelop 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. \nWho You Are\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or closely related discipline.\n15+ years of progressively responsible experience delivering complex rail, transit, or major infrastructure projects.\n10+ years of leadership experience involving CBTC, train control, signaling, or integrated rail systems.\nSenior 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.\nExperience delivering brownfield rail systems projects in an active passenger-rail or metro environment.\nExperience integrating CBTC/signaling with complex interlockings, track, switches, communications, power, civil, structural, and supporting infrastructure.\nDemonstrated understanding of the full project lifecycle, including design, procurement, construction, systems integration, testing, commissioning, operational readiness, and closeout.\nExperience managing multiple contractors and complex technical, construction, schedule, and contractual interfaces.\nStrong experience with integrated master scheduling, project controls, risk management, change control, contract administration, claims avoidance, and schedule-impact assessment.\nWorking knowledge of systems engineering, including requirements, interfaces, configuration management, verification and validation, and systems assurance.\nWorking knowledge of applicable train-control standards and practices, including IEEE 1474 and relevant CENELEC standards.\nStrong leadership, communication, negotiation, decision-making, conflict-resolution, and executive presentation skills.\nProven commitment to construction, railroad, and system safety.\nAbility to work from client offices and project sites in New York City and support nights, weekends, outages, testing, and cutovers as required. \nPreferred Qualifications\nMaster's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business Administration, Project Management, or related discipline.\nPMP certification.\nLeadership experience on a multi-billion-dollar rail or transit megaproject.\nExperience with NYCT or a comparable urban rapid-transit system.\nDirect experience integrating/delivering CBTC, complex interlockings, track/switch reconstruction, communications infrastructure, and tunnel systems.\nExperience with systems safety certification, cybersecurity assurance, quantitative schedule/cost risk analysis, and operational readiness.\nExperience with Primavera P6, Power BI, Unifier, or comparable project-controls platforms. \nWorking Conditions\nRegular 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.\nCompensation and Benefits\nWSP 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.\nExpected Salary Range: $194,900 to $280,860\nWSP USA provides the compensation range that it believes in good faith it may pay for this position. 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