Technical Manager (Systems)

: SYSTRA is one of the world's leading engineering and consultancy groups specialising in public transport and sustainable mobility.

With over 10,300 employees, SYSTRA's mission is to design safe and sustainable transport solutions to bring people together, develop social inclusion and facilitate access to employment, education and leisure throughout the world.

For 65 years, the Group has been working alongside cities and regions to contribute to their development by creating, improving and modernising their infrastructure and transport systems, throughout the life cycle of their projects.

SYSTRA is involved from the earliest stages of design through to the testing, deployment and maintenance phases.

The company provides all its services in over 80 countries worldwide and generates 74% of its turnover internationally.

With its new services, SYSTRA supports its clients and partners in their digital, ecological and energy transition, in order to invent the mobility of tomorrow.

Context: We are seeking an experienced Technical Manager to lead the governance of technical standards, design assurance, and engineering processes for a major railway program.

The role ensures that multidisciplinary designs meet applicable rail standards, regulatory requirements, and project objectives across safety, quality, cost, and schedule.

You will establish, maintain, and audit the technical management system, drive continuous improvement, and coordinate design assurance across all engineering disciplines and delivery partners.

Missions/Main Duties: Own and maintain the project’s technical standards, specifications, and engineering management plans, ensuring alignment with national/international rail standards, regulatory obligations, and client requirements.

Develop, implement, and continuously improve the technical review process, stage gate criteria, and design assurance workflows across concept, preliminary, detailed, and IFC stages.

Manage deviations, waivers, and concessions, ensuring robust justification, risk assessment, and approvals.

Lead multidisciplinary design reviews (track, civil, structures, geotechnical, systems, OLE, power, signaling/telecoms, rolling stock interface, stations, MEP, RAMS) to assure completeness, consistency, constructability, operability, and maintainability.

Drive requirements management, verification and validation (V&V), and configuration control, ensuring traceability from system requirements to design outputs and test evidence.

Coordinate technical interfaces and integration across packages, contractors, suppliers, and operations/maintenance stakeholders.