Senior Commissioning Manager at Hitachi America in Boston, MA

• Develop project subsystem and system-wide commissioning plans for wayside, cab, and central office
• Ensure project installation and commissioning activities are performed according to contract schedule and budget
• Develop cutover and migration plans for system integration purposes
• Develop and/or review test procedures for wayside, cab, and central office
• Schedule local resources and determine workload forecasts for commissioning activities
• Provide bid and proposal data on potential projects
• Work directly with customers and subcontractors to successfully execute the latter stages of projects and effectively turn the system over to the customer
• Provide-valued added input and assist the director in the development of models and systems that maximizes resource efficiency
• Perform field verification testing for all tie-in locations for equipment requirements, tag changes, and circuit wiring details with limited support from the customer
• Perform expedited engineering and equipment functions
• Perform on-site verification of deliveries for signal company
• Maintain inventory of signal company spare materials
• Sorting/Ordering or all tags, tag lists, and pull sheets
• Represent ASTS at meetings with LA TA
• Field relay testing of all vital relays prior to plug in and room breakdown testing
• Any and all other signaling systems related works as directed by the project in order to support those projects needs

Required Skills/ Knowledge:

• Experience to perform the aforementioned accountabilities as dictated in section above
• Bachelor of Science or technical degree required preferably in electrical, nuclear, or systems engineering; PE a plus
• Minimum 10 years leading field testing, integration, or commissioning projects on a multi-million dollar scale
• Minimum 5 years working on mass transit projects in an engineering or project/program management role
• Previous work in switch and signal train transportation system as a design engineer, project engineer, system engineer/integrator a plus
• Willing to take on big challenges with large-scale mass transit projects
• Able to perform signal circuit engineering
• Ability to test signal equipment & circuits
• Ability to place signals systems into service
• Ability to interpret contract specification
• Ability to read, understand and interpret switch and signal line drawing, schematics and cable plans

Desired Skills/ Knowledge:

• Previous experience in Testing & Commissioning of large infrastructure projects.
• Basic working knowledge of Rail Transit Subsystem such as Automatic Train Supervision, Vehicle, Telecommunication, Platform Screen Gates, Traction Electrification, SCADA, CCTV, Radios, GPS, etc.
• Basic understanding of software configuration managements (CM)
• Basic understanding of software programming logic
• Ability to read, understand, and implement scripts written in various scripting languages (BASH, python, Perl)
• Basic working knowledge of the Linux or UNIX operating system
• Operation and Maintenance Processes
• Manage and lead assigned resources and suppliers in order