Associate OLE Rail Director

Company Description

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team – 47,000 strong – driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

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An opportunity has become available for an Associate Rail Director within OLE Design at AECOM, to undertake the leadership and act as a CEM on multi-disciplinary rail schemes, working closely with the respective discipline Contractor’s Responsible Engineers as well as with all key stakeholders associated with the projects.

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Lead: Undertake the multi-design coordination including signalling, overhead line, third rail, civils and power.
• Provide the checks of design deliverables completed by members of the team in accordance with company procedures.
• Provide Expertise: The role will require experience of OLE design and will include acting as the Contractors Engineering Manager (CEM) for the delivery of multi-disciplinary schemes nationwide as well as in the capacity of a Contractors Responsible Engineer (CRE).
• Collaborate: Lead the team briefings and apply technical initiatives to improve quality, standards cascade to teams and undertake Performance Reviews for individuals. Keep up to date with industry best practice and apply best practice within the team environment where appropriate.
• Ensure Quality: The emphasis will be on the delivery of projects to appropriate quality standards, while achieving excellence in technical quality and ensuring an integrated multi-discipline engineering efficiency is achieved. Specific tasks include the following:
• Provide Excellence: Provide the multi-design coordination including signalling, overhead line, third rail, civils and power.
• Safety and Security: Ensure the technical quality of deliverables by checking design deliverables completed by team members in accordance with company procedures. Timely delivery in accordance with design programmes. Manage personal/team budgets and resourcing to achieve financial targets. Ensure the design teams understand and apply a Safe By Design approach. Ensure the design teams understand and apply a Common Safety Method (CSM) approach on our projects.

• Previous experience in leading teams and undertaking performance reviews with staff.
• Demonstrable experience in performing the role of Engineering Manager on high-profile projects.
• Knowledge of maintenance practices and construction methodologies and ability to consider/define requirements within design development.
• Knowledge of system interfaces which impact on track design principles and demonstrable experience in managing interfaces within design experience.
• Excellent communication skills, ability to develop and deliver presentations, preparation of technical reports and knowledge about project management.

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Demonstrable experience and understanding of railway OLE throughout the engineering process from project inception to delivery, specifically on Network Rail Infrastructure.
• Good communication skills and the ability to work within teams as part of an Alliance arrangement whilst having a dedicated approach to meeting strict project deadlines.
• Good communication skills when dealing with clients, developers, consultants, elected representatives and the public.
• Client-focused approach to service delivery.
• Previous Contractor’s Engineering Management experience in rail projects within OLE.

We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at Reaso

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