Track Alignment Engineer (Design)
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About the Role
SYSTRA seeks a Track Alignment Engineer with a solid design background to lead and assure track alignment design for rail projects in Saudi Arabia. The role involves reviewing alignment designs, enforcing geometric criteria, managing multidisciplinary interfaces, and ensuring compliance with standards.
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Responsibilities
- Support the Engineering Lead to review horizontal and vertical alignment design for mainline, depot, and yard tracks using industry standard tools.
- Define and enforce geometric design criteria, alignment control parameters, and tolerances across project phases.
- Conduct design checks, optioneering, and value engineering for alignments, turnouts, crossovers, and transition curves.
- Ensure compliance with international and regional rail standards and client specific requirements, integrating RAMS, maintainability, and ride quality.
- Act as the integrated PMC representative to the client, coordinating multi disciplinary interfaces.
- Manage technical queries, change requests, and design approvals, maintaining clear audit trails and configuration control.
- Lead design risk management for alignment choices, including ground conditions, utilities, and environmental factors.
- Oversee contractor and designer performance on alignment deliverables, ensuring baseline schedule and quality adherence.
- Maintain design schedules, registers, and progress reporting for alignment related works.
- Prepare and present technical reports, design review comments, and decision logs to client stakeholders.
- Ensure constructability and staging are embedded in alignment design, supporting site teams during construction.
- Implement robust quality assurance processes, including independent design reviews and verification/validation activities.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or related discipline
- Minimum 10 years of experience in railway track alignment and geometric design
- Proven experience in KSA or GCC on rail design projects strongly preferred
- Proficiency with rail alignment and civil design software (e.g., OpenRail/OpenRoads, Civil 3D, MX, PowerRail Track)
- Solid knowledge of track geometry principles (UIC/EN/AREMA), turnouts, transition curves, cant and cant deficiency
- Demonstrated experience managing multidisciplinary interfaces and performing PMC/consultancy functions
- Strong communication, report writing, and stakeholder management skills
- Experience with quality systems, risk management, and configuration control for design packages
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Context
- We are seeking a Track Alignment Engineer with a solid design background to extend PMC services for a major client in Saudi Arabia.
- The role focuses on leading and assuring track alignment design for rail projects, aligning multidisciplinary interfaces, and driving delivery to client standards.
Missions/Main Duties
- Support the Engineering Lead to review horizontal and vertical alignment design for mainline, depot, and yard tracks using industry standard tools (e.g., Bentley OpenRail, Civil 3D, MX).
- Define and enforce geometric design criteria, alignment control parameters, and tolerances across project phases (concept, preliminary, detailed design).
- Conduct design checks, optioneering, and value engineering for alignments, turnouts, crossovers, and transition curves to optimize performance, maintainability, and cost.
- Ensure compliance with international and regional rail standards and client specific requirements, integrating RAMS, maintainability, and ride quality considerations.
- Act as the integrated PMC representative to the client, coordinating multi disciplinary interfaces (civil, structures, trackwork, OCS, signaling, drainage, utilities).
- Manage technical queries, change requests, and design approvals, maintaining clear audit trails and configuration control.
- Lead design risk management for alignment choices, including ground conditions, utilities, third party constraints, and environmental factors.
- Oversee contractor and designer performance on alignment deliverables, ensuring baseline schedule and quality adherence.
- Maintain design schedules, registers, and progress reporting for alignment related works.
- Prepare and present technical reports, design review comments, and decision logs to client stakeholders.
- Ensure constructability and staging are embedded in alignment design, supporting site teams during construction and responding to RFIs.
- Implement robust quality assurance processes, including independent design reviews and verification/validation activities.
Profile/Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering or related discipline; Master’s preferred.
- Minimum 10 years of experience in railway track alignment and geometric design, including significant involvement in major rail programs.
- Proven experience in the KSA or GCC on rail design projects is strongly preferred; familiarity with KSA standards and authority processes is an advantage.
- Proficiency with rail alignment and civil design software (e.g., OpenRail/OpenRoads, Civil 3D, MX, PowerRail Track) and with model/drawing production workflows (BIM preferred).
- Solid knowledge of track geometry principles (UIC/EN/AREMA as applicable), turnouts and special trackwork, transition curves, cant and cant deficiency, and alignment constraints in urban and high speed/metro environments.
- Demonstrated experience managing multidisciplinary interfaces and performing PMC/consultancy functions with clients.
- Strong communication, report writing, and stakeholder management skills; ability to lead technical meetings and drive decisions.
- Experience with quality systems, risk management, and configuration control for design packages.
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