Rail & Transit Technical Director

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Job Description

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Rail & Transit Technical Director to join our team! In this role you will get to lead and grow rail and transit teams on key project pursuits while providing strategic and technical leadership for multidisciplinary teams.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead and grow Parsons' Rail and Transit teams focused on SEPTA pursuits and bus centric projects, providing strategic leadership and technical direction for a multidisciplinary team of rail transit professionals.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with transit agencies, rail operators, contractors, technology providers, and industry partners.
• Serve as a senior leader for major pursuits, including development of winning strategies, proposal preparation, staffing plans, organizational structures, technical approaches, and project delivery strategies.
• Provide oversight and technical leadership for the delivery of complex rail and transit systems projects, ensuring successful execution of the rail systems scope, schedule, budget, quality, and client objectives.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams across multiple offices and geographic regions, coordinating engineering resources to efficiently deliver complex projects and programs.
• Provide strategic direction and technical support for systems engineering, systems integration, requirements management, configuration management, systems assurance, safety certification, testing and commissioning activities across projects.
• Foster collaboration between technical disciplines, o