Technical Manager- Rail Systems

Role Purpose

Technical Leadership and Design

• Lead detailed design for Trackwork, OCS, Yellow Plant, and associated system elements.
• Ensure designs meet project specifications, standards, and contract requirements.
• Oversee design reports, calculations, drawings, BoQs, and IFC deliverables.
• Direct track engineering for ballastless and ballasted systems, alignment, clearances, and dynamic envelope requirements.
• Manage OCS foundations, earthing and bonding, steel columns, mechanical and electrical layouts, and traction power integration.

Yellow Plant and RAMS

• Oversee integration of maintenance vehicles, inspection units, tampers, grinders, maintenance locomotives, and depot or IMF requirements.
• Ensure Yellow Plant compatibility with track, OCS, maintenance access, and safety standards.
• Lead RAMS activities, hazard identification, risk assessments, and mitigation actions across the Systems Package.

Interfaces and Requirements

• Manage interfaces with civil works, structures, depots or IMFs, rolling stock, signaling, telecoms, power, utilities, and external stakeholders.
• Maintain Interface Control Documents and resolve interface issues.
• Capture, allocate, validate, and maintain traceability of system, design, and third-party requirements.
• Establish configuration control for design baselines and documentation and manage revisions and deviations.

Stakeholders and Assurance

• Liaise with the client, engineer, contractors, designers, and stakeholders.
• Lead technical meetings and design reviews and close out comments.
• Provide progress, technical, and risk reports.
• Ensure compliance with codes, standards, and safety requirements and support design audits and assurance evidence compilation.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, or Systems Engineering.
• 15+ years of railway systems design experience, preferably in high-speed rail.
• Strong background in Trackwork, OCS, or multi-system rail packages.
• Experience with Yellow Plant integration, RAMS, requirements management, and configuration control.
• Familiarity with rail standards and systems engineering practices.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary design teams and managing interfaces.

Key Competencies

• Strong leadership and technical governance capability.
• Excellent understanding of rail system integration.
• Proficiency with design management tools and requirements or configuration systems.
• Strong communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to drive issues to closure and maintain design schedule commitments.