Design manager track ( senior project engineer (track design, signalling and ocs)

Senior Project Engineer (Track Design, Signalling and OCS)

Salary and Benefits

Salary: £75000 - £77400 per annum, Benefits: Pension 12%, Hybrid (3 days office)

We're working with a major client delivering Britain's high-speed rail infrastructure programme, and we're recruiting a Senior Project Engineer to provide technical support and coordination on Track Design delivery. This is a senior technical role supporting the Lead Project Engineer in ensuring that track systems and layouts are designed, built and handed over to operations safely and on specification. You'll work at the heart of railway systems integration, managing the technical coordination between track design and other critical systems like signalling and power.

You'll combine deep design experience of track systems and layouts with the ability to work across complex interfaces. You'll support the coordination of assurance activities, manage configuration and information flow, and translate complex design challenges into clear engineering solutions. Your work ensures track systems meet all regulatory, operational and integration requirements.

What You'll Be Doing

• Support the coordination of technical assurance of track design, systems and layouts during design, construction and commissioning against client requirements and standards
• Support the Lead Project Engineer in discharging NEC Supervisor and Principal Designer Representative duties under CDM 2015
• Coordinate the acceptance of track design, construction and commissioning to ensure compliance with technical, sponsor and regulatory requirements before handover to operations
• Manage technical coordination and integration between track design contractors and other interfacing systems like signalling and OCS
• Provide technical guidance on track layout and design solutions, promoting best practice engineering techniques that drive consistency and efficiency
• Work with technical specialists to develop cost-balanced mitigation strategies on track design and layout issues
• Manage interface tools and processes to ensure track systems integrate effectively with neighbouring contracts and systems
• Support the management and communication of engineering issues and changes affecting track design and layout
• Oversee identification and communication of technical risks and assumptions across track design activities
• Support internal and external reporting on technical progress and risk management for track systems

What We're Looking For

You're a Design Manager or senior engineer with substantial hands‑on experience of track systems and layouts, typically at £100m scale projects. You have direct design and engineering experience with railway track infrastructure and understand how track layout and systems are designed, specified and built.

You understand how track systems interface with signalling and power systems and have managed the coordination between these disciplines. You understand CDM 2015 and have supported or undertaken Principal Designer and Designer duties on complex projects. You've worked with NEC contracts and understand supervision responsibilities. You've managed competing project and engineering demands with cost and schedule implications. You're comfortable with digital engineering tools and design management systems.

You can identify technical risks in track design quickly and communicate them clearly to contractors and internal stakeholders. You're pragmatic about balancing design rigour with delivery timescales. You understand what it takes to deliver track systems safely and integrate them with other railway systems.