<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>About Burns:</strong></p> <p>Burns Engineering provides professional engineering design and project management services for transportation, facilities, and infrastructure projects. We help our clients attain their strategic goals and initiatives through successful large-scale infrastructure projects. Burns’ full-service capabilities include mechanical, electrical, civil, structural, transportation, and energy consulting engineering.</p> <p>Recently voted a Top Workplace by Philly.com, we credit our strength as an organization to our talented, driven, vibrant team. Burns is an ENR Top 500 Firm, and has been named an MEP Giant by Consulting-Specifying Engineer Magazine, as well as a Hot Firm by Zweig. We are industry experts, proven leaders, innovative thinkers, and team players. We put our clients’ successes and best interests first, because their success is our success. We have fun at work because we love making a difference in the world. We are looking for high-energy, bright, collaborative individuals who want the opportunity to “write their own story” with us.</p></div><p>Burns is currently seeking a<strong> </strong><strong>Project Manager, Signaling and Train Control</strong><strong> </strong>to join our<strong> </strong><strong>Transit and Rail Team</strong><strong> </strong>in Sacramento, CA.</p> <p>The Project Manager, Signaling and Train Control, oversees the delivery of ETCS Level 2 and associated digital signaling systems on the California High-Speed Rail (CAHSR) Program. The position covers the full delivery lifecycle for train control, from design development through procurement, installation, testing, commissioning, trial running, and operational handover, and spans Computer Based Interlocking, Radio Block Centres, Automatic Route Setting, Traffic Management Systems, axle counter train detection, and broken rail detection.</p> <p>In this role, the Project Manager is responsible for scope, schedule, budget, risk, and contractor performance across signaling work packages, and for coordinating signaling interfaces with telecommunications, rolling stock, operations, track, traction power, and civil engineering. The position manages suppliers, contractors, and specialist signaling consultants; ensures compliance with FRA requirements, Program specifications, and applicable railway standards; and leads testing, commissioning, and operational readiness activities together with safety assurance, hazard management, and system certification.</p> <p>Reporting to the Rail Systems Lead, the Project Manager supplies the Program with delivery accountability for train control, a defensible interface position with adjoining disciplines and contracts, and the assurance evidence required to support safety certification and entry into revenue service. The position is based in Sacramento, California, with travel of 25 to 50 percent along the alignment.</p> <p><strong>Position Responsibilities</strong></p> <ul> <li>Oversee the delivery of ETCS Level 2 signaling systems throughout the full project lifecycle, from design development through operational handover</li> <li>Oversee project scope, schedule, budget, risk, contractor performance, and stakeholder engagement for signaling work packages</li> <li>Coordinate signaling interfaces with telecommunications, rolling stock, operations, track, traction power, and civil engineering disciplines</li> <li>Oversee integration of ETCS with Automatic Train Operation, Automatic Route Setting, Computer Based Interlocking, and Radio Block Centres</li> <li>Oversee integration of Traffic Management Systems, axle counter train detection, and broken rail detection systems with the train control architecture</li> <li>Support development and implementation of operational concepts for high-speed train operations</li> <li>Manage signaling suppliers, contractors, and specialist consultants, including performance monitoring and delivery risk management</li> <li>Ensure compliance with FRA requirements, Program specifications, and applicable railway signaling standards</li> <li>Oversee review and acceptance of supplier and contractor signaling designs, technical submissions, and construction packages</li> <li>Lead testing, commissioning, trial running, and operational readiness activities for signaling and train control systems</li> <li>Oversee Factory Acceptance Testing, Site Acceptance Testing, System Integration Testing, and route proving programs</li> <li>Support safety assurance, hazard management, safety case development, and system certification activities</li> <li>Manage defect resolution, corrective action closure, punch-list completion, and final system acceptance</li> <li>Support project reporting, forecasting, change management, and executive-level communications for signaling delivery</li> <li>Support revenue service demonstration and operational handover of train control systems</li> </ul> <p><strong>Minimum Qualifications</strong></p> <ul> <li>Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline or demonstrable on-the-job work experience, and a minimum of ten (10) years of experience in railway signaling, train control, and rail systems delivery</li> <li>Demonstrated signaling or train control delivery experience on projects exceeding $250 million in value</li> <li>Demonstrated experience delivering ETCS Level 2 or CBTC projects in a project management capacity</li> <li>Experience with modern digital signaling te