Rail Manager of Signal & Communications - Texas

Key Accountabilities:

Skills, Knowledge, &

Experience:

• Oversee maintenance, repair, inspection, testing, and cutovers.
• Ensure compliance with FRA regulations, including 49 CFR Part 236 Subpart I.
• Implement and improve procedures; train and instruct staff.
• Monitor performance, analyze failures, and drive reliability improvements.
• Maintain records; track inspections; conduct efficiency tests; audit activities.
• Provide leadership, supervision, HR oversight, and system reporting.
• Act as the client's single point of contact; manage all correspondence.
• Make immediate operational decisions, including during mobilization.
• Attend required meetings and represent the Contractor to the client.
• Designate and empower an Acting Manager to ensure coverage.
• Maintain ongoing proficiency; meet performance standards.
• 10 years: FRA-regulated commuter/freight rail of similar scope
• 10 years: railroad systems (design, engineering, construction, maintenance, testing)
• 4+ years: supervisory/leadership
• 5+ years: signal systems (ABS, CTC, interlockings, PTC/E-ATC, coded track circuits, grade crossings)
• Develop/implement inspection, testing, cutover, maintenance procedures
• Maintenance management: repair, inspection, testing, auditing, efficiency tests
• Performance monitoring: failure trend analysis and mitigation; reliability improvement
• System reporting, contract correspondence, stakeholder engagement
• Immediate operational decision-making (including mobilization)
• FRA regulations;
  Title 49 CFR Part 236 Subpart I; safety-critical compliance
• Signal systems: ABS, CTC, Alstom Electro
  
  LogIXS interlockings, E-ATC PTC, EC5/EC6, grade crossings; wayside/cab signals
• Communications: analog/digital telecom, cellular routers/modems, private cellular networks, LANs, fiber optics, SCADA
• Records management and compliance auditing

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