General purpose: Reports to the Deputy RE, Track/Civil. Provides field engineering oversight of all trackwork, from rail delivery through final geometry acceptance, across at-grade, aerial, bridge, and tunnel segments.
Below covers everything you need to know about what this opportunity entails, as well as what is expected from applicants.
Essential functions:
- Inspects and documents installation of ballasted track, direct-fixation track on the elevated guideway, bridges, and tunnels, and special trackwork at junction and crossover locations.
- Reviews track submittals: rail, fasteners, ties, turnouts, insulated joints, rail expansion joints, and welding procedures.
- Verifies track survey, alignment, gauge, cross-level, and profile against design and tolerance requirements; reviews track geometry car results.
- Witnesses thermite and flash-butt welding, ultrasonic testing, and CWR destressing; confirms rail neutral temperature records.
- Checks stray current and rail isolation details at fasteners, embedded track, and bridge interfaces.
- Coordinates track installation with OCS, train control (signal bonds, insulated joints, impedance bonds), and walkway work.
- Reviews contractor quantities and supports change order evaluation for trackwork scope.
- Prepares daily inspection reports, NCRs, and punch lists; reviews track as-builts.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in civil engineering, construction management, or a closely related field.
- Minimum 10 years of experience in rail transit trackwork construction, inspection, or field engineering, including special trackwork and direct-fixation track.
Preferred:
- PE or EIT; AREMA membership or track inspection certification.
- Light rail experience with rail-structure interaction on long-span or cable-stayed bridges.
- Experience working under roadway worker protection rules near an operating line.
Knowledge of:
- AREMA Manual for Railway Engineering and transit trackwork standards.
- Rail welding, destressing, and stray current control practices. xhqgsiq
- Track survey methods and geometry measurement tools.
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