About the Role
In this role, you will play a crucial part in owning and leading the signalling engineering work package within a complex metro environment. Your responsibilities will include managing engineering baselines, schedules, resources, and risks while ensuring alignment with QCDP commitments. You'll provide technical leadership in various signalling systems and interfaces, coordinate with various teams, and report on progress and any challenges that arise.
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Key Accountabilities and Competencies
- Engineering Work Package Leadership: Own the signalling engineering work package and deliver QCDP commitments, managing the engineering baseline, workload, schedule, resources, risks, opportunities, and recovery actions.
- Signalling Technical Management: Provide strong technical leadership in CBTC, ATP/ATO/ATS, interlocking, wayside/onboard interfaces, OCC/depot integration, migration, and system integration, ensuring requirements traceability, design maturity, configuration control, V&V, RAMS interfaces, and safety evidence.
- Siemens Technical and Contractual Management: Lead the company's reviews of Siemens deliverables, monitor subcontractor obligations and performance, and constructively challenge non-compliance, assumptions, exclusions, competence/resource gaps, and schedule exposure while protecting the company's contractual position.
- Interface, Change and Risk Management: Coordinate signalling interfaces with CIS/SCADA, rolling stock, telecom, OCC, PSD, power, track, civil/MEP, BIM, cybersecurity, RAMS, installation, and T&C, while controlling technical changes and their engineering, cost, schedule, configuration, and contractual impacts.
- Delivery, Integration and Handover: Ensure signalling readiness for procurement, installation, migration, testing, system integration, safety assessment, acceptance, and Preliminary Handover, achieving First Time Right submissions and timely closure of technical issues and interfaces.
- Leadership, Coordination and Reporting: Represent signalling engineering within the Project Core Team, lead technical workshops and design reviews, manage engineering hours and forecasts, and provide clear executive reporting, escalation, and decision support through strong planning, negotiation, and conflict-resolution skills.
About You
- Preferred 8–10 years of experience, including at least 5 years in signalling/CBTC engineering and 3–5 years in engineering, technical, or project leadership.
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Electronics, Systems, Computer, or Railway Engineering.
- Proven contractual background, multidisciplinary leadership capability, and strong English communication skills.
Performance Indicators
- Engineering milestones, workload, and deliverables achieved against the approved baseline and QCDP commitments.
- On-time and First Time Right submissions, with timely closure of reviews, interfaces, actions, and technical risks.
- Changes effectively controlled with documented engineering, schedule, cost, configuration, and contractual impacts.
- Signalling readiness achieved for installation, migration, testing, integration, safety acceptance, and Preliminary Handover.
- Effective deputy coverage and timely escalation of Siemens delivery, resource, technical, and contractual exposure.
You don’t need to be a train enthusiast to thrive with us. We guarantee that when you step onto one of our trains with your friends or family, you’ll be proud. If you’re up for the challenge, we’d love to hear from you!
Important to Note
As a global business, we’re an equal-opportunity employer that celebrates diversity across the 63 countries we operate in. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace for everyone.
