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WSP is currently initiating a search for a Non-Train Control Systems (Non-TCS) Deputy Design Manager to support the 6th Avenue / 63rd Street Communications Based Train Control (CBTC) Project in New York. The position will work under PMC’s Non-TCS Design Manager and will provide technical leadership, coordination, and oversight of the Design-Builder’s non-train-control design, procurement, installation, testing, commissioning, and closeout activities.
The Non-TCS Manager will lead oversight across mechanical, electrical, plumbing, structural, architectural, uninterruptible power supply (UPS), fire alarm, utility/civil, instrumentation and controls, equipment-room infrastructure, and other supporting systems that are not part of the train control system. The role will help ensure that the Design-Builder’s non-TCS work is coordinated with CBTC/TCS, communications, track, traction power, operations, safety, quality, and maintainability requirements.
The ideal candidate combines multidisciplinary design-management experience with practical knowledge of rail-transit infrastructure and design-build delivery. The candidate must be able to direct discipline reviewers, assess interfaces and constructability, identify risks early, and provide clear recommendations to the Program Management Team and MTA stakeholders.
Your Impact
- Provide technical and managerial leadership for all non-TCS elements of the 6th Avenue / 63rd Street Project, under the direction of Non TCS Design Manager.
- Oversee the Design-Builder’s non-TCS design and implementation activities for mechanical, electrical, plumbing, structural, architectural, UPS, fire alarm, utility/civil, instrumentation and controls, equipment rooms, cabinets, racks, supports, grounding, environmental controls, and related systems.
- Direct and coordinate multidisciplinary technical reviewers and subject-matter experts; consolidate comments and confirm that review responses are clear, consistent, timely, and aligned with contract requirements.
- Review Design-Builder submittals, design packages, calculations, specifications, drawings, shop drawings, RFIs, technical memoranda, construction work plans, test procedures, and closeout documentation for technical completeness and compliance.
- Confirm conformance with applicable Project Requirements and Design Criteria (PRDCs), Design-Build Contract requirements, MTA/NYCT technical standards, codes, regulations, permits, and Authority Having Jurisdiction requirements.
- Manage interfaces among non-TCS disciplines and with CBTC/train control, communications, track, traction power, operations, safety, systems assurance, testing and commissioning, and existing infrastructure.
- Identify design gaps, clashes, scope boundaries, constructability concerns, operational constraints, long-lead items, and integration risks; develop practical recommendations and track issues through resolution.
- Assess the Design-Builder’s design approach, technical deviations, substitutions, value-engineering proposals, and proposed changes, including potential impacts on safety, quality, cost, schedule, operations, maintainability, and system performance.
- Support requirements traceability, interface-control documentation, design maturity assessments, configuration management, and verification and validation for non-TCS systems.
- Coordinate with MTA C&D, NYCT user and maintenance groups, MTA Code Compliance, FDNY, utilities, and other Authorities Having Jurisdiction as required for reviews, approvals, and issue resolution.
- Facilitate or participate in design-progress meetings, multidisciplinary coordination workshops, constructability reviews, risk reviews, submittal/RFI reviews, schedule reviews, and Design-Builder progress meetings.
- Monitor the Design-Builder’s non-TCS design and corresponding construction schedule, submittal status, procurement activities, installation readiness, testing progress, and completion milestones; promptly elevate issues that may affect project delivery.
- Coordinate with construction-compliance, quality, safety, commercial, project-controls, operations, and testing and commissioning teams to maintain a consistent oversight position.
- Support field verification, installation reviews, nonconformance resolution, punch-list development, testing, commissioning, systems turnover, operations and maintenance manuals, training, as-built documentation, spare parts, and final acceptance.
- Maintain accurate technical records, decision logs, interface and issue logs, action trackers, and supporting documentation for change management and potential claims.
- Prepare concise technical briefings, recommendations, status reports, and escalation materials for project leadership.
- Coordinate with field inspectors to ensure field installations adhere to the design.
- Perform additional responsibilities as required to support safe, compliant, timely, and coordinated delivery of the non-TCS scope.
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical, civil, structural, architectural engineering, architecture, construction management, systems engineering, or a related field.
- 10+ years of relevant post-education experience in multidisciplinary infrastructure design, design management, construction management, or engineering oversight, including transit and rail experience.
- Demonstrated experience managing or overseeing multiple building and infrastructure disciplines, including mechanical, electrical, plumbing, structural, and architectural systems.
- Experience with transit facilities, stations, tunnels, equipment rooms, power distribution, UPS systems, grounding/bonding, fire alarm/life-safety systems, ventilation, drainage, utilities, and supporting civil works.
- Experience coordinating with field inspectors to ensure field installations adhere to the design.
- Experience reviewing design-builder or contractor deliverables for contract compliance, constructability, interdisciplinary coordination, installation readiness, and maintainability.
- Working knowledge of design-build project delivery, technical submittal and RFI workflows, configuration/change control, and design-review processes.
- Ability to interpret plans, specifications, calculations, codes, standards, schedules, interface documents, and testing/commissioning requirements.
- Strong leadership, coordination, written communication, meeting facilitation, and issue-resolution skills.
- Ability to work effectively with designers, contractors, construction teams, agency stakeholders, operations and maintenance personnel, and Authorities Having Jurisdiction.
- Ability to adapt to changing project priorities and work schedules. Occasional off-hours work and travel to project sites may be required.
Technical Knowledge
- Multidisciplinary coordination of architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire alarm/life safety, UPS, utility/civil, and instrumentation and controls systems.
- Building and equipment-room infrastructure supporting railway systems, including space planning, heat-load management, HVAC, drainage, fire protection, power quality, grounding/bonding, cable routing, access, and maintainability.
- Interface management between non-TCS infrastructure and CBTC/train control equipment, communications systems, traction power, track, existing facilities, and operational constraints.
- Design-review methods, constructability and installation sequencing, commissioning readiness, asset turnover, and operations and maintenance requirements.
- Applicable New York City and New York State codes and generally recognized transit, electrical, mechanical, structural, fire/life-safety, and accessibility requirements.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree in engineering, architecture, construction management, or a related field.
- Experience supporting MTA Construction & Development and New York City Transit projects.
- Experience on complex brownfield rail-transit projects with active passenger service, constrained access, multiple interfaces, and staged cutovers.
- Experience leading technical teams on design-build programs and supporting change management, risk management, claims avoidance, and schedule recovery.
- Familiarity with requirements-management, document-control, and project-management systems used on major infrastructure programs.
WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.
Compensation
- Expected Salary (all locations): $200,000 - $235,000
WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.
WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.
The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.
This Opportunity
WSP is currently initiating a search for a Non-Train Control Systems (Non-TCS) Deputy Design Manager to support the 6th Avenue / 63rd Street Communications Based Train Control (CBTC) Project in New York. The position will work under PMC’s Non-TCS Design Manager and will provide technical leadership, coordination, and oversight of the Design-Builder’s non-train-control design, procurement, installation, testing, commissioning, and closeout activities.
The Non-TCS Manager will lead oversight across mechanical, electrical, plumbing, structural, architectural, uninterruptible power supply (UPS), fire alarm, utility/civil, instrumentation and controls, equipment-room infrastructure, and other supporting systems that are not part of the train control system. The role will help ensure that the Design-Builder’s non-TCS work is coordinated with CBTC/TCS, communications, track, traction power, operations, safety, quality, and maintainability requirements.
The ideal candidate combines multidisciplinary design-management experience with practical knowledge of rail-transit infrastructure and design-build delivery. The candidate must be able to direct discipline reviewers, assess interfaces and constructability, identify risks early, and provide clear recommendations to the Program Management Team and MTA stakeholders.
Your Impact
- Provide technical and managerial leadership for all non-TCS elements of the 6th Avenue / 63rd Street Project, under the direction of Non TCS Design Manager.
- Oversee the Design-Builder’s non-TCS design and implementation activities for mechanical, electrical, plumbing, structural, architectural, UPS, fire alarm, utility/civil, instrumentation and controls, equipment rooms, cabinets, racks, supports, grounding, environmental controls, and related systems.
- Direct and coordinate multidisciplinary technical reviewers and subject-matter experts; consolidate comments and confirm that review responses are clear, consistent, timely, and aligned with contract requirements.
- Review Design-Builder submittals, design packages, calculations, specifications, drawings, shop drawings, RFIs, technical memoranda, construction work plans, test procedures, and closeout documentation for technical completeness and compliance.
- Confirm conformance with applicable Project Requirements and Design Criteria (PRDCs), Design-Build Contract requirements, MTA/NYCT technical standards, codes, regulations, permits, and Authority Having Jurisdiction requirements.
- Manage interfaces among non-TCS disciplines and with CBTC/train control, communications, track, traction power, operations, safety, systems assurance, testing and commissioning, and existing infrastructure.
- Identify design gaps, clashes, scope boundaries, constructability concerns, operational constraints, long-lead items, and integration risks; develop practical recommendations and track issues through resolution.
- Assess the Design-Builder’s design approach, technical deviations, substitutions, value-engineering proposals, and proposed changes, including potential impacts on safety, quality, cost, schedule, operations, maintainability, and system performance.
- Support requirements traceability, interface-control documentation, design maturity assessments, configuration management, and verification and validation for non-TCS systems.
- Coordinate with MTA C&D, NYCT user and maintenance groups, MTA Code Compliance, FDNY, utilities, and other Authorities Having Jurisdiction as required for reviews, approvals, and issue resolution.
- Facilitate or participate in design-progress meetings, multidisciplinary coordination workshops, constructability reviews, risk reviews, submittal/RFI reviews, schedule reviews, and Design-Builder progress meetings.
- Monitor the Design-Builder’s non-TCS design and corresponding construction schedule, submittal status, procurement activities, installation readiness, testing progress, and completion milestones; promptly elevate issues that may affect project delivery.
- Coordinate with construction-compliance, quality, safety, commercial, project-controls, operations, and testing and commissioning teams to maintain a consistent oversight position.
- Support field verification, installation reviews, nonconformance resolution, punch-list development, testing, commissioning, systems turnover, operations and maintenance manuals, training, as-built documentation, spare parts, and final acceptance.
- Maintain accurate technical records, decision logs, interface and issue logs, action trackers, and supporting documentation for change management and potential claims.
- Prepare concise technical briefings, recommendations, status reports, and escalation materials for project leadership.
- Coordinate with field inspectors to ensure field installations adhere to the design.
- Perform additional responsibilities as required to support safe, compliant, timely, and coordinated delivery of the non-TCS scope.
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical, civil, structural, architectural engineering, architecture, construction management, systems engineering, or a related field.
- 10+ years of relevant post-education experience in multidisciplinary infrastructure design, design management, construction management, or engineering oversight, including transit and rail experience.
- Demonstrated experience managing or overseeing multiple building and infrastructure disciplines, including mechanical, electrical, plumbing, structural, and architectural systems.
- Experience with transit facilities, stations, tunnels, equipment rooms, power distribution, UPS systems, grounding/bonding, fire alarm/life-safety systems, ventilation, drainage, utilities, and supporting civil works.
- Experience coordinating with field inspectors to ensure field installations adhere to the design.
- Experience reviewing design-builder or contractor deliverables for contract compliance, constructability, interdisciplinary coordination, installation readiness, and maintainability.
- Working knowledge of design-build project delivery, technical submittal and RFI workflows, configuration/change control, and design-review processes.
- Ability to interpret plans, specifications, calculations, codes, standards, schedules, interface documents, and testing/commissioning requirements.
- Strong leadership, coordination, written communication, meeting facilitation, and issue-resolution skills.
- Ability to work effectively with designers, contractors, construction teams, agency stakeholders, operations and maintenance personnel, and Authorities Having Jurisdiction.
- Ability to adapt to changing project priorities and work schedules. Occasional off-hours work and travel to project sites may be required.
Technical Knowledge
- Multidisciplinary coordination of architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire alarm/life safety, UPS, utility/civil, and instrumentation and controls systems.
- Building and equipment-room infrastructure supporting railway systems, including space planning, heat-load management, HVAC, drainage, fire protection, power quality, grounding/bonding, cable routing, access, and maintainability.
- Interface management between non-TCS infrastructure and CBTC/train control equipment, communications systems, traction power, track, existing facilities, and operational constraints.
- Design-review methods, constructability and installation sequencing, commissioning readiness, asset turnover, and operations and maintenance requirements.
- Applicable New York City and New York State codes and generally recognized transit, electrical, mechanical, structural, fire/life-safety, and accessibility requirements.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree in engineering, architecture, construction management, or a related field.
- Experience supporting MTA Construction & Development and New York City Transit projects.
- Experience on complex brownfield rail-transit projects with active passenger service, constrained access, multiple interfaces, and staged cutovers.
- Experience leading technical teams on design-build programs and supporting change management, risk management, claims avoidance, and schedule recovery.
- Familiarity with requirements-management, document-control, and project-management systems used on major infrastructure programs.
WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.
Compensation
- Expected Salary (all locations): $200,000 - $235,000
WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.
WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.
The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as a Control Systems Engineer
Document your engineering credentials before applying
Gather transcripts, professional engineering licenses, and any IEC or ISA certifications early. PERM requires your employer to demonstrate you meet the job's minimum requirements, so gaps in documented credentials can delay or derail the labor certification.
Target manufacturers with in-house automation teams
Companies running their own PLC, SCADA, or DCS engineering departments are far more likely to sponsor green cards than firms that contract out controls work. Look for postings listing proprietary systems like Allen-Bradley, Siemens, or Honeywell as required, not preferred.
Verify prevailing wage before negotiating your offer
Your employer must pay at least the DOL prevailing wage for your SOC code and location. Use the OFLC Wage Search to check Level II or III wages for control systems roles before you accept an offer, since underpaying triggers PERM denial.
Search green card sponsoring employers through Migrate Mate
Filter roles by EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship history so you only see employers who have filed PERM for engineering positions before. Migrate Mate surfaces this filing data directly, saving you the manual work of cross-referencing DOL disclosure files.
Clarify the EB-2 versus EB-3 path with your hiring manager
If your role requires only a bachelor's degree, the employer typically files EB-3. Roles requiring a master's or equivalent open the EB-2 track with potentially shorter backlogs for some nationalities. Confirm which category the job description supports before PERM is filed.
Understand how the PERM recruitment audit window affects your start date
DOL requires employers to complete specific recruitment steps before filing PERM, and USCIS can audit the process for up to five years. If the employer rushes the recruitment phase to meet a hiring deadline, an audit finding later can invalidate your entire petition.
Green Card Control Systems Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Control Systems Engineer role typically qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship?
Most Control Systems Engineer positions qualify for EB-3 because the standard minimum requirement is a bachelor's degree in electrical, mechanical, or systems engineering. EB-2 applies when the employer genuinely requires a master's degree or equivalent for the specific role. If the job description lists a bachelor's as sufficient, USCIS will categorize it as EB-3 regardless of your own higher credentials.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B sponsorship for this role?
H-1B visa is a temporary status renewed in three-year increments, subject to the annual lottery cap for most applicants. EB-2 and EB-3 green card sponsorship leads to permanent residency with no cap concerns at the petition stage. The tradeoff is time: PERM labor certification alone takes six months to over a year before USCIS even receives the I-140, and priority date backlogs affect applicants born in India and China significantly.
What does the PERM labor certification process require from my employer?
Your employer must conduct a DOL-prescribed recruitment campaign proving no qualified U.S. workers are available for the role, post a job order with the state workforce agency, run two Sunday newspaper advertisements or equivalent, and document all applicant rejections. The employer then files the ETA Form 9089 with DOL. Audit risk is real, so the recruitment steps must be completed in strict sequence and within specific timeframes.
How can I find Control Systems Engineer jobs where the employer has already committed to green card sponsorship?
Search on Migrate Mate, which filters positions by employers with verified PERM and I-140 filing history for engineering roles. This lets you focus your applications on companies that have already navigated the sponsorship process, rather than spending months convincing an employer to start it from scratch, which many will decline to do for mid-level candidates.
Can I switch employers after my I-140 is approved but before I receive my green card?
Yes, under AC21 portability rules you can change employers if your I-485 adjustment of status application has been pending for 180 days or more and the new role is in the same or similar occupational classification. For Controls Engineers, a new position in automation, process control, or systems integration typically qualifies. Your attorney must file a portability memo with USCIS to preserve your priority date and approved petition.