Construction Engineer

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.

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.
• Track survey methods and geometry measurement tools.