Sr OCS Construction Manager

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AECOM is looking to hire an Overhead Contact System (OCS) Construction Manager for our NYC Transit Pracice. This unique and exciting position offers the opportunity to work in a developing practice with great growth opportunities. 

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Lead technical interactions with clients, operators, and other major stakeholders
• Specific responsibilities will include the full range of catenary design and analysis tasks, including support and wiring layouts and profiles, cross-section development, structural support design, equipment allocation, grounding and bonding, sectionalizing, and the development of basic design parameters.
• Construction oversight, coordination of resources and stakeholders, coordination with engineers for designs & systems integration
• Construction Engineering Support on infrastructure projects
• Manage and deliver technical training of client staff. Support the authoring of project plan documents. Participate in the Requirements Management effort
• Support cost estimates, project schedules and budgets. Perform technical review of other team members’ designs
• Participate in project pursuit efforts
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior personnel as part of team development
• Working with existing and potential clients to identify potential project
• Participation in teaming and go/no-go decisions for potential projects

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor Degree + 12 years of relevant experience in design of Systems for rail and transit projects
• Experience managing client project lifecycle phases including planning, engineering design, stakeholder management, bit negotiation, construction oversight, project management

PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS:

• Professional Engineering License
• 15 years of relevant experience in systems design for rail and transit projects
• Experience in local NY Transit Projects
• Experience with the design and construction of overhead electrification systems, preferably including a variety of project scopes and delivery phases ranging from preliminary design through construction
• Experience in implementing a variety of overhead system types including auto-tensioned and fixed termination systems, simple catenary and single contact wire/trolley wire, as well as both AC and DC systems

• Relocation assistance is not available for this role
• Sponsorship is available for this role

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You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

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