Interface Manager

About the Position We’re seeking an experienced Interface Manager to support a large, complex, heavy-civil rail infrastructure program. This role is responsible for establishing, implementing, and managing a formal Interface Management Plan, including the governance, processes, and tools required to identify, track, and resolve all technical and organizational interfaces across engineering, procurement, and construction activities. This position operates within multi-contract programs involving significant discipline integration and high-risk interface environments (e.g., tunneling, major utility coordination, or systems integration), requiring coordination across contractors, stakeholders, and technical teams to ensure alignment, minimize risk, and support efficient project execution. This is a long-term, full-time, hybrid position (three days per week in office) position located in the greater San Francisco Bay Area, CA. Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, the following: Develop, maintain, and implement the project interface management plan, including the interface register, interface control documents, and the process for identifying, assigning, and closing interface points. Identify technical and organizational interfaces across engineering, procurement, and construction activities, and coordinate resolution across design contracts, construction packages, and disciplines. Chair interface coordination meetings, track open interface items to closure, and escalate unresolved items with a recommended path forward. Review design submittals and deliverables for interface conformance, including spatial coordination, structural envelope, equipment clearance, access, and maintainability, and verify that the design supports long-term operations and maintenance rather than the minimum equipment footprint. Coordinate interfaces between civil and structural work and the systems it houses, including tunnel and station ventilation, mechanical and electrical rooms, traction power, trackwork, fire life safety, and communications. Evaluate change proposals, design change notices, and requests for information for interface impact, and document the cost, schedule, and scope consequences across affected contracts. Coordinate with third parties, utility owners, adjacent contracts, and permitting and operating stakeholders on interfaces that cross the contract boundary. Support the program risk process by translating unresolved interfaces into identified risks with assigned owners, mitigation actions, and closure dates. Maintain interface traceability from design criteria through construction verification, and confirm that interface requirements are carried into testing, commissioning, and turnover. Support schedule coordination by identifying interface-driven dependencies between concurrent design and construction contracts and confirming they are reflected in the program schedule. Prepare interface status reporting…