Transit Program Design Coordinator

This Opportunity

WSP is currently initiating a search for a Transit Program Design Coordinator. This position will be required to sit in office 3-5 days a week in Seattle-WA. Be involved in projects with our Transportation Team and be a part of a growing organization that meets our client’s objectives and solves their challenges. 

This role has been created to support some of the recent project wins and on-going pursuits in the Seattle transit and transportation market. The Design Coordinator is responsible for providing design management, coordination, and support for light rail alignments running at-grade and on elevated structure, with interfaces with third party utilities, railroads, and right of way. This includes driving design progress, assisting with management of the relevant design contracts, helping resolve design issues, managing the design milestone submission and review process, and monitoring the design schedule within their Area.

This position is contingent upon client approval, meaning that employment will be confirmed once our client has reviewed and approved the selected candidate.

Your Impact

• Responsible for driving design progress, resolution of all design issues and maintaining design schedule within their Area.
• Day-to-day management of Civil/Systems design in their Area.
• Tracks the final designer’s design packaging plan against design schedule.
• Ensures Major Discipline Leads, technical reviewers and SMEs are included in the reviews of the relevant design packages and provided required notice ahead of submissions to schedule their review time accordingly
• Coordinates responses to any Requests for Deviations or Specification Modification Request with SMEs.
• Coordinates with the Third-Party team and Designers so required design documentation for permits and agreements is provided.
• Manages production of design documentation for the design milestone and third-party submittals within the Construction Contract Package Area to meet schedule.
• Forecasts and secures resources for required Design Milestone and Third-Party Submission reviews.
• Performs the completeness checks for Design Milestone and Third-Party checklists for permit submissions and recommends to Design Managers if the packages can be accepted for review.
• Responsible for initiating the BlueBeam Studio Session for Design Milestone Submission reviews.
• Ensures the design reviews are completed in a timely and coordinated manner.
• Ensures designs for permitting packages are complete, high-quality, and meet the requirements of the permitting team to advance the individual applications.
• Resolves and manages compliance, technical, and integration issues.
• Ensures internal stakeholders are included in the design review process.
• Ensures third-party and stakeholder comments are consolidated and entered into the master design review response.
• Collates and validates all comments received for each design package, checking for correctness, grammar, readability, duplication, and instruction.
• Ensures the Major Discipline Leads, Technical Reviewers and SMEs have entered their comment dispositions in Design Milestone Submission Reviews.
• Monitors design packages for configuration changes.
• Leads relevant design package meetings and workshops.
• Participates in relevant project and program working groups.
• Supports the Requirements Management team.
• Implements integration and interface management between civil and systems infrastructure. 
• Maintains weekly design submission and RFI response statistics and reports.
• Manages, coordinates, and leads stakeholder review meetings to ensure overall design requirements are integrated into the Project – including design packages, technical reviews and review documentation.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, or closely related discipline.
• 15+ years of experience in engineering design and construction that includes significant experience with project and contracts management experience, preferably in a rail or transit related environment; or An equivalent combination of education and experience.
• A Professional Engineer license issued by the State of Washington and/or Registration as professional engineer in another U.S. State.
• Based in, or able to relocate, to the greater Puget Sound area.
• Ability to work in office for a minimum of 3 days a week.
• Demonstrated experience in owner side design management or final design management of transit rail projects.
• Strong understanding of the key stakeholders involved in operational rail environments.
• Working knowledge of Bluebeam Revu 21 with experience facilitating Bluebeam Studio