Senior Signalling Engineer

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Amey is a leading provider of full life‑cycle engineering, operations and decarbonisation solutions for transport infrastructure and complex facilities.

Working for us, you’ll be delivering sustainable infrastructure solutions that enhance life and protect our shared future.

Our people are driven by a set of strong values, based on safety, insight and collaboration.

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Signalling Engineer / Signalling Designer (IRSE 1.1.510 aligned) to join our Consulting Rail team in Manchester or Birmingham.

Our signalling teams are improving connectivity, bringing better journeys to passengers, and engineering the future of rail safety, reliability and efficiency.

As an appointed Design Partner on some of the UK’s most significant and complex rail infrastructure projects including Wales & Borders. We are proud to support major programmes such as Northern Powerhouse Rail, Eastern Routes Partnership, Northwest & Central Framework, Core Valley Lines, Trans‑Pennine Route Upgrade, and Cardiff Crossrail. Our in‑house engineering team delivers design solutions across all Network Rail stages and disciplines, driving improved connectivity, enhancing passenger journeys, and shaping the future of rail safety and efficiency.

These projects also provide a diverse range of opportunities for personal and professional development, whether you are working on long‑term, high‑value programmes or smaller, community‑focused initiatives. With these frameworks in place, you will have the chance to influence infrastructure projects that shape the region’s future.

To act as a Team Leader producing and overseeing technically sound signalling deliverables (designs, calculations, drawings, documentation) that meet quality, cost and programme requirements, and to manage the actions of a small‑to‑medium single‑discipline team.

In addition, the role is accountable for delivering integrated “non‑principles” signalling design within defined boundaries in line with the IRSE 1.1.510 Signalling Designer scope – i.e., configuring standard design constructs to a specific implementation while ensuring operational, technical and safety principles are satisfied.

• Producing integrated non‑principles signalling designs within your Authority to Work, ensuring all operational, technical and safety principles are satisfied.
• Taking a holistic view of system interactions, recognising impacts on related assets, and escalating non‑standard or principles‑level issues appropriately.
• Leading the production and checking of signalling designs, calculations, drawings and documentation in accordance with standards and client requirements.
• Managing and coordinating design teams, supervising junior engineers and supporting their development.
• Managing budgets, cost control, programme delivery and contributing to the commercial success of projects.
• Liaising with clients and suppliers, attending progress meetings and resolving technical queries.
• Supporting work‑winning and bid activity through technical input and solution development.
• Working on site when needed, including occasional out‑of‑hours work.
• Interpreting and validating standards, requirements and technical information, ensuring design inputs are complete and authorised.
• Applying correct design processes, maintaining configuration control, documenting decisions and completing robust self‑checks prior to verification.
• Identifying hazards, applying CDM principles and maintaining traceable records of risk mitigation.
• Managing scope changes and ensuring controlled design updates and issue processes.
• Reviewing and resolving comments from checking, installation/test logs or stakeholders, including root‑cause analysis where required.
• Closing out design packages, supporting lessons learned and applying feedback to improve future designs.
• Working collaboratively with colleagues, clients and suppliers, upholding IRSE obligations and professional ethical standards.

• Incorporated or Chartered Engineer status (or working towards it).
• IRSE 1.1.510 Signalling Designer…