About the Role
In a world of possibilities, the Testing & Commissioning Manager will play a crucial role in leading the planning, coordination, execution, and assurance of testing and commissioning activities across a major railway programme in the UAE. This position entails managing all activities from factory testing through to system integration, trial operations, and final acceptance.
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What You'll Be Doing
- Lead the programme-wide Testing & Commissioning strategy, plans, governance, and integrated schedule.
- Review and oversee contractor and supplier T&C plans, procedures, test specifications, and certification activities.
- Coordinate Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), Site Acceptance Testing (SAT), subsystem, system integration, dynamic, and operational testing.
- Manage T&C interfaces across civil works, stations, track, railway systems, rolling stock, and operations.
- Lead testing readiness reviews and ensure prerequisites, resources, permits, and documentation are in place.
- Oversee test results, defects, nonconformances, retesting, configuration status, and closeout.
- Coordinate Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Safety (RAMS), safety verification, test evidence, and certification with system assurance and independent safety stakeholders.
- Support trial operations, operational readiness, handover, Taking Over, and final acceptance.
What Required Skills You'll Bring
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline.
- Minimum 13 years of relevant experience, including significant experience on major rail or transportation infrastructure programmes.
- Proven experience leading T&C activities on a major railway, metro, high-speed rail, or similar transportation project.
- Strong knowledge of FAT, SAT, system integration testing, dynamic testing, trial operations, and railway commissioning.
- Good understanding of RAMS, configuration management, systems integration, test evidence, and safety certification.
- Proven ability to coordinate multiple contractors, suppliers, operators, and assurance stakeholders.
- Strong leadership, planning, problem-solving, communication, and technical reporting skills.
- Excellent written and spoken English.
What Desired Skills You'll Bring
- Master's degree in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, or a related discipline.
- Professional registration, chartership, or membership with a recognized professional institution.
- Experience within a PMC/engineering consultancy environment on major rail programmes.
- Previous Middle East/GCC rail experience is an advantage.
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