OverviewCordoba Corporation, a leading civil engineering firm based in California, seeks a highly skilled and experienced Senior Transit Engineer to play a pivotal role in our Transportation Sector. The candidate must have a minimum of 10 years' experience in railway engineering and managing complex multidisciplinary railway projects.
Responsibilities
- Serve as project manager or discipline lead for railroad or civil engineering design projects and other offices to support the transportation sector and other sectors as needed.
- Support the firm by leading or participating in marketing and contracting activities.
- Manage scope, budget, and schedule, as well as the development of design criteria, specifications, project guides, project meeting notes, and cost-estimating activities.
- Perform railroad, transit, and/or civil engineering/design planning, analysis, and design aspects of rail and rail-related transportation projects.
- Lead and/or perform detailed QC reviews of projects.
- Support Project Managers by leading or participating in client and stakeholder visits, site visits, field assessments, and construction inspections as needed.
- Attend industry events and represent the firm as needed.
- Manage, supervise, mentor younger staff, and support technical development.
- Periodic travel for client visits, site visits, field assessments, and construction inspections, as needed
- Work across industries with rail, industrial, terminal, utility, agency, DOT, port, transit, and other industry clients.
- Provide leadership across technical disciplines.
- Perform other duties as needed.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or related field
- Minimum 10 years' experience in railway engineering and managing complex multidisciplinary railway projects
- Professional Engineering (PE) License in California
- Skilled in technical writing, communicating and presenting to clients and the public
- Demonstrated ability to lead a team on railway projects
- Proficiency using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Project Software)
- An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must
Preferred Qualifications
- Minimum 15 years' experience in civil design experience with at least 5 years within the rail and/or transit engineering industry and 2 years within managing railway or civil projects
- Proven, hands-on experience in all aspects of railroad and/or civil design projects.
- Skilled in railroad horizontal and vertical alignments, earthwork modeling, drainage design, and plan production
- Knowledge of railroad analysis programs, and railroad and/or civil design software.
- Experience working with AREMA’s Manual for Railway Engineering and/or other railroad design guidelines, specifications, and criteria.
- Demonstrated leadership, strong communication, organizational, listening, mentoring and project management skills.
- Desire to advance technical and management skills to support the growth of the section and work within a collaborative team
- Ability to handle multiple assignments and work in a team environment with various teams.
- Experience using OpenRoads/OpenRail or other BIM Software (AutoCAD, Civil3D, Geopak, etc.) and proficiency using MicroStation.
- Construction inspection or construction management experience is a plus
Salary Range: $180,000 to $225,000 yealy
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Work Environment: Hybrid, expect 2 days a week remote, 3 days a week onsite at a client office in downtown LA.
