Project Manager, Traction, Power and Medium Voltage

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About Burns

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.

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.

Burns is currently seeking a Project Manager, Traction, Power and Medium Voltage to join our Transit and Rail Team in Sacramento, CA.

Position Summary

The Project Manager, Traction Power and Medium Voltage, oversees the delivery of traction power, medium voltage distribution, and auxiliary power systems on the California High-Speed Rail (CAHSR) Program. The position covers 25kV AC traction power systems, traction power substations, switching and paralleling stations, static frequency converters, utility interconnection facilities, traction power SCADA, protective relay systems, power transformers, high and medium voltage switchgear, grounding and bonding, traction return, auxiliary power substations, medium voltage distribution networks, station and maintenance facility power, wayside power distribution, emergency and standby power, UPS systems, and electrical metering and monitoring.

In this role, the Project Manager is responsible for scope, schedule, budget, risk, and contractor performance across traction power and electrical infrastructure work packages, and coordinates delivery with OCS, signaling, communications, SCADA, stations, maintenance facilities, civil works, track, operations, and maintenance. The position leads utility coordination for transmission, sub-transmission, and distribution service connections; oversees statutory, regulatory, and Authority Having Jurisdiction approvals; and monitors construction, energization planning, outage planning, electrical safety, and integrated testing and commissioning.

Reporting to the Rail Systems Lead, the Project Manager supplies the Program with delivery accountability for railway electrical infrastructure, a cleared utility interconnection and energization authorization path, and the test and inspection evidence required to support operational readiness and entry into revenue service. The position is based in Sacramento, California, with tra
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d railway electrical infrastructure

• Experience leading utility coordination, interconnection agreements, and energization authorization activities
• Experience securing Authority Having Jurisdiction, statutory, and regulatory approvals for electrical infrastructure
• Experience overseeing substation construction, wayside equipment installation, outage planning, and commissioning programs
• Demonstrated leadership of electrical safety and energization readiness programs
• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills
• Availability for travel of 25 to 50 percent along the alignment

Preferred Qualifications/ Certifications/ Licensures

• Experience on high-speed rail projects operating above 125 mph (200 km/h)
• Experience with California High-Speed Rail, HS2, European high-speed rail programs, or comparable large-scale rail programs
• Experience delivering 25kV AC traction power systems and static frequency converters
• Experience delivering medium voltage distribution and auxiliary power systems supporting railway operations
• Experience with electrical SCADA systems, power monitoring systems, and integrated railway power management systems
• Experience managing corridor-wide wayside electrical infrastructure and power distribution systems
• Experience supporting integrated testing, revenue service demonstration, and entry into revenue service activities
• PMP, PRINCE2, PE, or comparable project management or engineering certification

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