# Track Engineering Design Lead/Project Manager

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Seattle, WA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $174,500 - $296,600
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

WSP is looking for a Track Engineering Design Lead to join their team in Seattle, WA.

This position blends hands-on track design leadership with strategic oversight of the transit and rail engineering discipline, ensuring that all technical deliverables, system integrations, and infrastructure projects meet or exceed industry, regulatory, and company standards.

### Responsibilities

#### Track Design Leadership & Technical Delivery

- Lead all phases of track design and installation for transit and railroad projects.

- Provide technical direction for track geometry, alignment, special trackwork, systems integration, and constructability.

- Coordinate and supervise multidisciplinary engineering teams.

- Provide technical design support for field activities.

- Lead development of solutions for unforeseen field conditions.

#### Transit & Rail Engineering Discipline Leadership

- Provide proactive, strategic leadership for the transit and rail engineering discipline.

- Perform engineering review of permit applications, design plans, specifications, and construction inspections.

- Lead large, complex transit and rail engineering projects.

- Ensure discipline certifications, accreditations, and technical capabilities are continuously developed and maintained.

#### Project Delivery & Program Management

- Guide engineering efforts from planning and design through construction support and maintenance.

- Monitor external events, risk contingencies, hours, expenses, and contractual obligations.

- Lead technical aspects of contract negotiations, presentations, and client meetings.

#### Client Engagement & Business Development

- Establish and maintain strong client relationships with transit agencies, railroads, and regulatory bodies.

- Actively market the organisation’s transit and rail engineering capabilities.

- Develop new business opportunities and cross-sell additional services.

#### Leadership, Mentorship & Organizational Growth

- Mentor and guide engineering staff.

- Provide performance leadership to assigned staff and project teams.

- Support long-term strategy, growth, and pipeline development for the transit and rail engineering practice.

### Requirements

- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or closely related discipline.

- 12+ years of relevant post-education experience in engineering.

- Professional Engineer (PE) license required.

- Advanced proficiency with transit and rail engineering principles, practices, and processes.

- Strong working knowledge of FRA, FTA, CPUC, AREMA, and other rail regulatory standards.

### Benefits

- Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage.

- Retirement savings.

- Paid sick leave.

- Paid vacation.

- Paid parental leave.

- Paid time off for bereavement, voting, and naturalization proceedings.

### Compensation

- Expected Salary: $174,500 - $296,600

## Skills

### Required
- track design
- transit and rail engineering
- regulatory compliance
- project management
- leadership
- MicroStation
- AutoCAD
- Civil 3D
- OpenRail

### Nice to have
- modernization programs
- system upgrades
- major capital rail projects
- PMP Certification
- Master’s Degree in Engineering

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