Resident Engineer

General purpose: Reports to the Resident Engineer, Systems, and leads day-to-day CMC oversight of trackwork and supporting civil construction. Directs the Track and Civil Construction Engineers and inspectors, and acts for the RE in their absence.

Essential functions

• Leads field oversight of ballasted, embedded, and direct-fixation track, special trackwork, walkways, and track-related civil work.
• Oversees at-grade guideway civil: utility relocations, drainage, subgrade preparation, MSE and ballast walls, signal house and TPSS foundations, OCS pole foundations, fencing, and landscaping.
• Reviews track and civil submittals, RFIs, and field changes; prepares independent estimates and supports change order negotiation.
• Verifies track geometry, rail welding, rail-structure interaction details on long-span bridges, and stray current isolation against contract requirements.
• Coordinates track and civil sequencing with systems installation so duct banks, foundations, and embedments are complete before systems crews mobilize.
• Manages quantity verification, progress payment backup, and daily field documentation for track and civil work.
• Coordinates with Seattle City Light, SDOT, and other utilities on relocations and interfaces along the alignment.
• Enforces safety, environmental, and stormwater compliance on site.
• Supports punch list, as-built review, and track acceptance.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in civil engineering, construction management, or a closely related field.
• Minimum 10 years of construction management or field engineering experience on rail transit or heavy civil projects, including oversight of trackwork and track-related civil construction.

Preferred

• PE license (Washington or ability to obtain) or CCM.
• Experience with special trackwork installation and direct-fixation track on aerial structures.
• Experience with WSDOT Standard Specifications and Seattle utility coordination.

Knowledge of

• AREMA guidelines and transit track standards, CWR installation and destressing, and track geometry tolerances.
• Geotechnical and earthwork practices for subgrade, MSE walls, and retaining structures.
• Construction contract administration on public works projects.