The successful candidate will provide consulting services related to technology integration for rail transit, fleet management, and security/infrastructure operations for agencies throughout North America.

Fleet Management projects involve the design of advanced public transportation systems used to support fixed route and paratransit operations. The computer-based Dispatch Center systems can include a multitude of applications including: Computer-Aided Dispatching, Automatic Vehicle Location, next-stop annunciation, automatic passenger counting, video surveillance monitoring, passenger information data, fleet and personnel scheduling, and interaction with fare collection, priority signaling, and other ITS-related operational and management systems. The final solution(s) must, in general, achieve the goals established either by the transit agency or by regional authorities for an ITS Implementation Plan. These projects can also involve the conceptual design of the Transit Management Center from which these systems, and other systems, are operated. Our fleet management projects require a thorough understanding of bus and paratransit dispatching and operational support activities, the positions and responsibilities of the staff that are located in the Transit Management Center, intelligent “smart bus” equipment located on the vehicles, and highly secure IT technology solutions that will be used to achieve operational needs and interact with other IT enterprise systems. These projects also require an understanding, and at times the design, of the wireless communications technologies and infrastructure to enable the fleet mangement office systems to be fully integrated with the vehicles. The resulting systems may have to communicate with multiple legacy systems within the client’s IT enterprise, and as a result, the work involves defining the data and the protocols that will be used to effect full integration among many systems.

Position responsibilities include the following:

• Analyzing current systems and operations methodologies to assess and recommend    effective fleet management operational approaches; this often times can require a complete business process review of operations performed from the Transit Management Center
• Designing technology solutions that will meet current and future operational needs
• Making recommendations for central control facility designs
• Designing computer system architectures that will integrate into the client’s enterprise
• Preparing procurement specifications and supporting RFP materials
• Assisting in the evaluation and procurement of the specified systems/technology
• Managing the implementation of the resulting contracts
• Overseeing the testing and field installation activities
• Assisting in the client’s operation to migrate to the new systems/technologies

Typical projects require that the candidate exercise proficiency in formalized project management methods, including planning and scheduling; cost control; risk and change order management; scope, schedule, budget, and quality management; project staffing; and status reporting in customer-required formats.

What we're asking
Successful applicants must have excellent oral, writing, presentation and interpersonal skills, and be willing to travel about 20-25% of the time. Applicants must have a Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, or equivalent, along with more than five years of working experience with computer-based control and communications systems. Applicants with a Professional Engineer’s license, as well as prior working experience with a transit agency or system supplier are desirable.

This is a U.S.-based position; applicants must be fully authorized to work in the U.S. To apply for this position, please click here: http://jobs-kema.icims.com/jobs/1240/job

The successful candidate will provide consulting services related to technology design and integration for rail transit, fleet management, and security/infrastructure operations throughout North America.

Rail transit projects involve the design of centralized train control systems, SCADA systems for traction power and station/facility management, customer information systems, field data acquisition systems, security systems, and federally-mandated Positive Train Control systems. These projects often involve the conceptual design of the Operations Control Center from which these systems are operated. Our rail transit projects require a thorough understanding of train dispatching and operational support activities, the positions and responsibilities of the staff that are located in the Operations Control Center, intelligent remotely-located field equipment, and highly secure IT technology solutions that will be used to achieve operational needs and interact with other enterprise systems. These projects also require an understanding of wireline and wireless communications technologies to enable the computer-based monitoring and control systems to be fully integrated with field equipment. The systems designed will have to communicate with multiple legacy systems within the client’s IT enterprise; as a result, the work involves defining the data and protocols that will be used to effect full integration among many systems. The projects can also require preliminary engineering designs, with a complete drawing package, that will support implementation and installation services to be performed by a systems supplier.

Position responsibilities include the following:

• Analyzing current systems and operations methodologies to assess and recommend effective rail transit operational approaches; this often requires a complete business process review of rail operations performed from the Operations Control Center
• Preparing requirements analyses developed from an understanding of the client’s needs and knowledge of industry best practices
• Designing technology solutions that will meet current and future operational needs
• Making recommendations for central control facility designs
• Designing computer system architectures that will integrate into the client’s enterprise
• Preparing procurement specifications and supporting RFP materials
• Assisting in the evaluation and procurement of the specified systems/technology
• Managing the implementation of the resulting contracts
• Overseeing the testing and field installation activities
• Assisting the client in migrating its operation to the new systems/technologies

Typical projects require that the candidate exercise proficiency in formalized project management methods, including planning and scheduling; cost control; risk and change order management; scope, schedule, budget, and quality management; project staffing; and status reporting in customer-required formats.

What we're asking

Successful applicants must have excellent oral, writing, presentation and interpersonal skills, and be willing to travel about 15-20% of the time. Applicants must have a Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, or equivalent, along with more than five years of working experience with computer-based control and communications systems. Applicants with a Professional Engineer’s license, as well as prior working experience with a transit agency or rail transit system supplier, are desirable.

This is a U.S.-based position; applicants must be fully authorized to work in the U.S. To apply for this position, please click here: http://jobs-kema.icims.com/jobs/1239/job.

The successful candidate will be required to analyze current wireless and wireline communications systems and operations methodologies, assess user needs, model information flow(s), develop alternative conceptual system designs, identify costs, perform trade-off analyses, prepare procurement specifications and supporting RFP material, evaluate vendor solutions, manage implementations, validate testing results, and orchestrate system and user migration.

Our transit projects require in-depth, technical/engineering experience with multiple communications technologies (land mobile radio, microwave, fiber optic, telephony, etc.) to enable the computer-based monitoring and control systems to be fully integrated with field equipment. The resulting monitoring and control systems will also have to communicate with multiple legacy systems within the client’s IT enterprise. As a result, the work may involve defining the data and protocols that will be used to effect full integration among many systems.

Our public safety projects require in-depth technical/engineering experience with multiple systems and processes, including:

• P25 conventional and trunked voice and data radio systems
• Standards and architectures for interoperable solutions
• RF propagation engineering for both analog and digital communications systems
• Point-to-point and point-to-multipoint microwave radio systems
• Private, cellular/PCS, and commercial wide-area mobile data systems or services
• FCC regulatory issues associated with private voice and data systems
• Termination facilities and ancillary systems
• Support systems such as back-up generators, battery and UPS backup power communication equipment shelters, and tower structures
• Computer based engineering tools and applications

Typical projects require that the candidate exercise proficiency in formalized project management methods, including planning and scheduling; cost control; risk and change order management; scope, schedule, budget, and quality management; project staffing; and status reporting in customer-required formats.

What we're asking
Successful applicants must have excellent oral, writing, presentation and interpersonal skills, and be willing to travel about 20-25% of the time. Applicants should have a Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent certifications, along with more than five years of leadership responsibility pertaining to operations and wireless voice and data systems in transit, law enforcement and other public safety organizations or with a system supplier. A Professional Engineer’s license and prior consulting experience are strongly preferred.

This is a U.S.-based position; applicants must be fully authorized to work in the U.S. To apply for this position, please click here: http://jobs-kema.icims.com/jobs/1253/job.