Highway/Transportation Engineer

Alstom • Pittsburgh, PA

44d • Hybrid

About The Position

Take on a new challenge and apply your highway and transportation engineering expertise in a new cutting-edge field. You'll work alongside collaborative and innovative teammates. You'll contribute to the development of world-class transit systems by designing and scoping effective interfaces and system alignments for mass transit technologies, impacting global transportation infrastructure. Day-to-day, you'll work closely with teams across the business (multi-disciplinary engineers, project teams, suppliers, consultants, and contractors), participate in detailed alignment design reviews, and assist with inspection, testing, and installation activities at project sites-and much more.

Requirements

• Degree in Highway, Transportation, or Civil Engineering.
• Experience or understanding of highway, rail, or bridge engineering.
• Knowledge of Bentley suite of engineering products (OpenRail, OpenRoads, Microstation).
• Familiarity with preparing bids, proposals, design drawings, and specifications.
• Professional Engineer certification or the ability to obtain one.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams and adapt to changes within a project milestone environment.
• Experience in construction installation activities.
• Proficiency in AutoCAD.
• Self-motivation and ability to work independently or in a team.

Responsibilities

• Developing horizontal alignments with crossovers, switches, spiral and curved geometry, vertical alignments, and graphically graded crossings.
• Participating and assisting with preparing system-level and detailed alignment design reviews.
• Collaborating with the Systems engineering group to develop optimized system alignments and simulations.
• Preparing bids, proposals, design drawings, specifications, and criteria for system alignments and vehicle clearance envelopes.
• Preparing scope, drawings, details, design calculations, and reference materials to establish and maintain baseline alignment designs and vehicle clearance envelopes.
• Effectively prioritizing tasks across multiple projects and proposals while adhering to allocated budgets and defined schedules.
• Building and maintaining working relationships with clients, their technical representatives, internal and external engineers, project engineers, construction teams, and project managers.
• Assisting with inspection, testing, and installation activities at project sites.
• Exhibiting excellent communication and interpersonal skills to foster collaboration and teamwork.
• Demonstrating self-motivation, adaptability to changes, and the ability to work independently or within integrated, cross-functional teams in a dynamic project environment.

Benefits

• Work with cutting-edge mass transit systems and advanced engineering technologies
• Progress towards becoming a trusted expert in developing system alignments and vehicle clearance envelope designs
• Contribute to innovative projects
• Collaborate with transverse teams and helpful colleagues
• Benefit from our investment in your development, through award-winning learning,
• Steer your career in whatever direction you choose across functions and countries

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees