Associate OLE Rail Director

Company DescriptionWe 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.Job DescriptionStart here. Grow here.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.Specific Skills RequiredPrevious 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.QualificationsReady 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.Additional InformationWe 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 ReasonableAccommodations@aecom.com.About AECOMAECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle—from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.Freedom to Grow in a World of OpportunityYou will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address ReasonableAccommodations@aecom.com if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.ReqID: REF53557MBusiness Line: TransportationBusiness Group: DCSStrategic Business Unit: Europe & IndiaCareer Area: EngineeringWork Location Model: Hybrid #J-18808-Ljbffr