Senior Manager: Rail Systems
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About the Role
Parsons Corporation seeks a Senior Manager: Rail Systems for a major transportation program in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role provides leadership and technical assurance for rail systems across multiple projects, including signalling, telecoms, SCADA, and systems integration.
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Responsibilities
- Act as the program level lead for rail systems within PUA, setting direction and priorities for rail systems across all relevant projects
- Develop and maintain rail systems strategies, standards, and technical principles aligned with the client’s vision, regulatory requirements, and interoperability objectives
- Ensure employer’s requirements for rail systems are clear, consistent, and properly reflected in contracts, scopes of work, and design briefs
- Provide independent, strategic advice to senior client leadership on rail systems issues, risks, opportunities, and long term implications
- Oversee rail systems scope across multiple projects and packages (signalling, telecoms, SCADA, platform systems, AFC, security, control centres, line wide systems)
- Coordinate and align project level rail systems managers and engineers to ensure consistent technical approaches, assumptions, and interfaces
- Review and challenge project plans for rail systems design, procurement, installation, testing, and commissioning to ensure realism and alignment with program milestones
- Drive resolution of cross project rail systems issues and conflicts, escalating to PUA and program leadership as required
- Oversee the rail systems technical assurance framework at program level, ensuring adherence to employer’s requirements, local regulations, and international standards
- Provide senior review and approval (on behalf of the client) of key rail systems design concepts, architectures, and key technical decisions
- Ensure that requirements management, verification, and validation processes for rail systems are properly applied and evidenced
- Support and, where necessary, chair high level technical and design review boards for critical rail systems decisions
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Telecommunications, Control/Systems Engineering, or a closely related discipline
- Master's degree in Railway Systems, Transportation Engineering, Systems Engineering, or Project/Program Management is an advantage
- Professional registration/chartership (e.g., CEng, PE, or equivalent) is highly desirable
- 15+ years' experience in rail systems engineering on major rail/metro/light rail/high speed rail programs
- Significant experience in a PMC, client organization, or major consultancy, including program or portfolio level rail systems responsibility
- Proven track record in systems integration, technical assurance, RAMS, and safety certification for rail systems
- Demonstrated experience working within integrated client/PMC environments and leading multi disciplinary teams and multiple contractors/OEMs
- Experience across multiple delivery phases (design, procurement, installation, testing & commissioning, EIS) is essential
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Job Description
- The Senior Manager: Rail Systems is a senior, client facing role embedded within an integrated client–PMC office on a major transportation program with a strong focus on rail (metro, heavy rail, light rail, high speed).
- Sitting within the PUA function, the role provides leadership, governance, and integration of all rail systems activities across multiple projects and contracts.
- This is a non operational position: the focus is on managing and assuring the design and build process on behalf of the client—not running day to day railway operations or maintenance.
Key Responsibilities
- Rail Systems Governance & Strategy (PUA)
- Multi Project Rail Systems Management
- Technical Assurance & Design Management
- Systems Integration & Interfaces
- Safety, RAMS & Regulatory Approvals
- Testing, Commissioning & Entry Into Service (EIS) Oversight
- Program, Risk & Change Management
- Stakeholder, Operator & Third Party Coordination
- Leadership, People & Capability Development
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Telecommunications, Control/Systems Engineering, or a closely related discipline.
- Master’s degree in Railway Systems, Transportation Engineering, Systems Engineering, or Project/Program Management is an advantage.
- Professional registration/chartership (e.g., CEng, PE, or equivalent) is highly desirable.
- Project/program management certification is an advantage.
Experience
- 15+ years’ experience in rail systems engineering on major rail/metro/light rail/high speed rail programs.
- Significant experience in a PMC, client organization, or major consultancy, including program or portfolio level rail systems responsibility.
- Proven track record in systems integration, technical assurance, RAMS, and safety certification for rail systems.
- Demonstrated experience working within integrated client/PMC environments and leading multi disciplinary teams and multiple contractors/OEMs.
- Experience across multiple delivery phases (design, procurement, installation, testing & commissioning, EIS) is essential.
Skills & Competencies
- Deep technical understanding of rail systems architectures and technologies (signalling/train control, telecoms, SCADA, platform systems, AFC, security, control centres).
- Strong knowledge of systems engineering, integration, and RAMS processes (including CENELEC norms for safety related systems).
- Excellent leadership, stakeholder management, and influencing skills at senior levels.
- Strong analytical, strategic thinking, and problem solving abilities; able to balance technical, commercial, and program considerations.
- Highly effective communication and presentation skills; able to convey complex issues clearly to non technical decision makers.
- Solid understanding of program controls (time, cost, risk) and how rail systems activities impact them.
- High level of professionalism, integrity, and commitment to client outcomes.
Additional Information
- Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels no matter the race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or genetic information.
- We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars!
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