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This Opportunity
WSP is currently initiating a search for an ATS Engineer Lead to join our Transit & Rail Team. The selected candidate will support the planning, design, and delivery of rail modernization projects, to include Communication-Based Train Control (CBTC) and its extensive system design, capital construction projects for major transit clients.
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This position will be based out of our Pittsburgh, PA office.
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Position Summary Senior ATS Engineer responsible for design, integration, verification, and lifecycle support of Automatic Train Supervision (ATS)/Automatic Train Control (ATC)/CBTC and related signaling systems for urban rail and transit projects. Leads technical design, ensures safety and standards compliance, coordinates multi-discipline teams, and acts as technical authority for ATS functions from concept through commissioning and handover.
Your Impact
- Lead requirements development, functional design oversight, and architecture review for ATS/ATC/CBTC subsystems (train control, interlocking interfaces, supervisory control, ATP, ATO, PLC-based wayside control).
- Create and review system-level documents: concept of operations, system specifications, interface control documents (ICDs), sequence diagrams, and verification matrices.
- Review and approve signal/ATS designs, SLDs (single line diagrams), IO lists, logic diagrams, and software architecture descriptions.
- Specify and manage system interfaces with traction power, SCADA, station control, communications (FTTx, Ethernet, PTP), and OT/IT networks.
- Develop safety cases, RAMS (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Safety) analyses, SIL/ASIL assessments, FMEA, and hazard logs; ensure compliance with EN 50126/50128/50129 or relevant regional standards.
- Prepare test strategies and lead factory acceptance (FAT), site acceptance (SAT), dynamic testing, and system integration tests; witness and certify test results.
- Oversee system commissioning, driverless/ATO trials, performance tuning, and transition to revenue service.
- Provide technical leadership to engineering teams, review contractor deliverables, and mentor junior engineers.
- Manage technical risks, change control, and configuration management across project lifecycles.
- Liaise with clients, contractors, regulatory authorities, and operators; represent ATS discipline in project meetings and design reviews.
- Support lifecycle activities: obsolescence management, upgrades, troubleshooting, and maintenance strategy development.
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical, Electronic, Control, or Systems Engineering (Master’s preferred).
- 12+ years’ experience in signaling/ATS/CBTC/ATC design and delivery for transit or mainline rail projects; 3+ years in a lead/senior role.
- Essential licensure required.
- Demonstrated project experience across requirements, design, testing, commissioning, and handover for ATS/ATO/ATP systems.
Demonstrated communications skills, both verbal and written. This includes the ability to present design concepts and principles in verbal and written form to audiences with a wide spectrum of backgrounds, from technical manager to ordinary citizen.
- Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and will be able to be compliant with WSP’s health, safety, drug/alcohol, and harassment policies.
- Strong ability to adapt quickly to change and demonstrate flexibility to meet varying project schedules and business needs.
- Occasional travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements.
- Strong knowledge of signaling principles, interlocking, train control logic, trackside and wayside equipment, and communications-based train control.
- Experience with safety standards and certification processes: EN 50126/50128/50129, CENELEC, IEC 61508/61511, or equivalent national regulations.
- Proven ability to develop and review RAMS documentation, safety cases, SIL assessments, and hazard analyses
- Proficiency in ATS/CBTC vendor systems (e.g. Bombardier, Thales, Siemens, Hitachi, Alstom) is an advantage
- Familiarity with network, ethernet, PTP, IEC 61850/60870, and cybersecurity best practices for OT/SCADA
Preferred QualificationsÂ
- Master’s Degree in Engineering.
- Strong experience in managing the review and approval of documents and discipline-specific deliverables, certifications, processes, and plans in a multi-project environment is highly desirable.
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