Boston University

Facilities CM Electrical Engineer (Rail/Transit)

Boston University$100K — $130K *
Transportation
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or related field
  • 10+ years of electrical engineering experience, 5+ years in SCADA design
  • Experience in heavy rail transit systems and AC Room Passenger stations
  • Proficiency in Autodesk software suite
  • Knowledge of Microsoft 365
  • OSHA 10-hour Construction certification
  • Field experience required

Responsibilities

  • Oversee electrical aspects of construction projects for compliance and safety
  • Provide electrical engineering support to project teams
  • Contribute technical expertise for engineering, cost estimates, and schedules
  • Coordinate engineering and implementation according to specifications
  • Document processes to ensure conformance with project requirements
  • Evaluate project risks and develop recommendations
  • Assist in preparing documentation for final project decisions

Benefits

  • Opportunities for fieldwork and hands-on inspections
  • Exposure to high-profile transit projects
  • Chance to influence project outcomes with significant responsibility
  • Work in a predominantly office-based environment
  • Access to professional development and certification opportunities
Full Job Description
Job Description

Position summary: Responsible for overseeing electrical aspects of construction projects, ensuring compliance with plans, specifications, and safety regulations. This role involves supervising construction activities, quality control, and progress monitoring, while also maintaining communication with the project team. Responsible for overseeing electrical designs, including SCADA for facility and transit projects. This role requires full design responsibility including scoping, calculations, drawings and specifications for materials, construction execution, as well as testing, controls and commissioning. Expected projects may be include power projects in addition to systems controls.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities
  • Maintains full familiarity with plans, specifications, construction schedules, and contractor's plans on assigned contracts, the Project Management Plan (PMP), and current safety regulations to be knowledgeable of the project team (i.e., client, consultants, and multiple contractors) responsibilities
  • Provide electrical engineering support to client's project implementation team
  • Provides technical expertise related to engineering and constructability, statements of work, cost estimates, proposal reviews, project schedules, change requests, and other items during pre- construction, procurement, construction, and testing and commissioning
  • Coordinates engineering and implementation in accordance with plans and specifications
  • Documents and oversees processes and projects, ensuring conformance with clients approved procedures and all internal and external project requirements
  • Evaluates design and construction for potential risks, develops alternative courses of action, and makes recommendations
  • Assist in the preparation of final decision documentation for the COTR
  • Reviews contractor payment requests and internal project costs and makes recommendations
  • Reports on project status and communicates with client's internal stakeholders
  • Perform other related tasks assigned by the client and contract manager

Nonessential functions and responsibilities
  • Perform other related duties as assigned.


Required Skills

  • Written and communication skills


Required Experience

  • Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or a related field
  • A minimum of ten (10) years of construction or related electrical engineering experience with no less than five (5) years specific to SCADA design criteria and standards, and at least two (2) of the ten (10) years in the transit industry
  • Demonstrated SCADA specific experience in heavy rail transit systems and AC Room Passenger stations
  • Demonstrated experience with Autodesk® software suite
  • Knowledgeable with Microsoft 365®
  • Physical ability to access any of the locations and perform a hands-on inspection, if required
  • Must have previous field experience
  • OSHA 10-hour Construction certification

Preferred Experience
  • PE license, Certified Construction Manager (CCM), or Certified Professional Contractor (CPC) are desirable but not required
  • Familiarity with rail/transit design criteria and standards
  • Proficiency in Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, and Procore

Working Conditions

Work is performed within a general office environment 95% of the time. Work is generally sedentary in nature, but may require occasional standing and walking. Lighting and temperature are adequate and there are no hazardous or unpleasant conditions caused by noise, dust, etc. within the office environment.

Field work is required on occasion where work may be conducted outside in heat/cold, wet/humid, and dry/arid conditions. Some lifting (up to 25 lbs) may be required as needed.

About Boston University

Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian but maintains its historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original campus in Newbury, Vermont, before moving to Boston in 1867. The university now has more than 3,900 faculty members and nearly 33,000 students, and is one of Boston's largest employers. It offers bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, doctorates, and medical, dental, business, and law degrees through 17 schools and colleges on two urban campuses. BU is a member of the Boston Consortium for Higher Education and the Association of American Universities.
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