Civil Engineer – Rail/Transit

PEMCCO is seeking a Civil Engineer to support the design and coordination of civil infrastructure elements affecting track systems and rail corridor performance. This role focuses on drainage, grading, utilities, and corridor integration, ensuring trackwork solutions are technically sound, compatible with site conditions, and aligned with broader capital project requirements.

PEMCCO, Inc. is an integrated Information Technology, Information Management (IT/IM), Systems Engineering, and Technical Services firm supporting infrastructure, transportation, and capital program delivery environments.
We assist our customers in delivering mission-critical engineering support, program coordination, data-driven decision tools, and technology-enabled solutions that enhance operational performance, asset reliability, and capital project execution.

In support of transit clients, our teams provide multidisciplinary support across trackwork engineering programs, including field inspection, data analytics, construction coordination, and capital program support functions. We specialize in bridging engineering, operations, and technology to improve system performance and lifecycle outcomes.

Living the Culture and Making It Happen is the motto we live by. We Live the Culture by carrying out the tenets of our Core Values of Loyalty, Integrity, and Commitment to our Customers and Employees every day. We Make It Happen by following Smart Organization Healthy Organization (SOHO) principles for internal and external communications and the successful execution of projects, ensuring disciplined coordination across engineering teams, field personnel, program stakeholders, and client leadership in complex, fast-paced project environments.

Our approach emphasizes flexibility, responsiveness, and execution excellence, enabling us to support both technical engineering functions and the programmatic infrastructure required to deliver safe, reliable, and efficient transportation systems.

Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform civil engineering analysis and design in support of track rehabilitation, modifications, and associated rail capital improvements.
• Evaluate drainage, grading, utility conflicts, corridor conditions, and subgrade-related issues that affect track performance, constructability, and long-term maintainability.
• Coordinate with geotechnical resources regarding settlement, support conditions, drainage concerns, and related factors that influence track stability and rehabilitation scope.
• Develop civil drawings, technical specifications, quantity takeoffs, cost estimate inputs, design narratives, and other contract-document components.
• Support preparation of bid packages, design memoranda, schedules, and technical documentation for planning, preliminary engineering, final design, and construction support assignments.
• Participate in field inspections and site reviews to validate existing conditions, design assumptions, utility constraints, and constructability considerations.
• Review contractor submittals, RFIs, proposed field changes, and design-related issues affecting civil interfaces.
• Coordinate closely with track, structural, inspection, and construction support staff to ensure integrated and practical solutions.
• Support rehabilitation recommendations and alternatives analysis that account for operational constraints, phasing, and long-term maintenance needs.
• Contribute to value engineering, issue resolution, and quality reviews across task-order assignments.
  

Competencies:

• Rail corridor civil design and integration
• Drainage and grading coordination
• Utility conflict awareness
• Constructability and field validation
• Technical writing and specification development
• Interdisciplinary coordination
• Problem-solving in constrained operating environments
  

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering.
• Active Professional Engineer (PE) license in the State of Maryland.
• Minimum ten (10) years of experience on railroad, rail transit, or complex transportation infrastructure projects.
• Demonstrated experience preparing civil design deliverables and supporting multi-discipline public infrastructure assignments.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with rail corridor, guideway, station-adjacent, yard, or maintenance facility civil work.
• Familiarity with MDOT/MTA or similar public-sector design and delivery environments.
• Experience with cost estimating, phasing, utility coordination, and construction support on rail capital projects.
  

Additional Eligibility Qualifications:

• Authorized to work in the United States with the ability to satisfy MTA project access and security badging requirements.
• Ability to perform field visits within active transportation, maintenance, or rail environments.
• Ability to support multiple work orders and changing priorities while maintaining quality and responsiveness.
  

Benefits

• 15 days of Paid Time Off
• 11 Paid Holidays
• Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Voluntary Short-Term Disability, Life Insurance, Accident, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Whole Life Plus, Identity Theft, and Law Assure
• 401(k)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  
  

Compensation

• $58 – $90 per hour, depending on Experience, Licensure, Rail Experience, and Applicable Certifications.
  
  

PEMCCO, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. The Company does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions or any other characteristics protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Salary : $58 - $90