Engineering Manager (Rail) Bid Opportunity📣 Job Ad

About SYSTRA and the Opportunity

SYSTRA is a global leader in engineering and consultancy, specializing in public transport and sustainable mobility, with over 10,300 employees worldwide. For 65 years, SYSTRA has designed safe and sustainable transport solutions, contributing to urban and regional development across more than 80 countries. This full-time Engineering Manager (Rail) role is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and represents a significant bid opportunity within the company's expanding portfolio.

Role Overview and Project Context

The Engineering Manager will lead all engineering and design management activities for a conventional and freight railway project. This role is crucial for ensuring effective technical coordination across diverse disciplines including civil, structural, geotechnical, track, systems, MEP, and architectural. The successful candidate will be accountable for design integration, technical compliance, constructability, interface definition, and engineering assurance throughout the project lifecycle. Particular emphasis will be placed on coordinating infrastructure and systems for conventional railway and freight operations, encompassing rail corridors, sidings, yards, depots, terminals, and operational interfaces, to ensure fully integrated, operationally suitable designs aligned with safety, regulatory, and performance requirements. It is important to note that this requirement is for a bid opportunity only at this stage, and any engagement is subject to successful project award and final client approval.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage overall engineering and design delivery for the railway project across all relevant disciplines.
• Provide technical leadership and direction to multidisciplinary design teams, consultants, and specialist engineering contributors.
• Ensure timely delivery of coordinated design packages in line with project schedules, technical requirements, and client expectations.
• Manage interfaces across all design disciplines, ensuring integration between civil, structural, track, rail systems, MEP, architectural, and other project components.
• Oversee design reviews, technical submissions, value engineering initiatives, and design optimization activities.
• Ensure design compliance with project specifications, contractual requirements, applicable codes and standards, authority regulations, and client standards.
• Drive design quality, consistency, constructability, and completeness throughout all engineering phases.
• Coordinate with construction, commercial, planning, procurement, project controls, and stakeholder teams to ensure alignment between design intent and delivery requirements.
• Manage engineering risks, technical issues, design changes, and interface challenges, implementing effective mitigation strategies.
• Lead consultant management, design progress tracking, reporting, and engineering governance processes.
• Support bid-stage engineering planning, methodology development, resource planning, and technical solution development as required.
• Facilitate technical coordination with clients, consultants, contractors, and authorities to support approvals and successful project delivery.
• Promote a strong culture of safety in design, quality assurance, innovation, and engineering excellence.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering in a relevant discipline such as Civil, Structural, Electrical, Mechanical, or a related field. A master’s degree is an advantage.
• Extensive experience in engineering and design management on major infrastructure, conventional railway, and freight rail projects.
• Strong multidisciplinary design experience is essential, with a proven ability to coordinate civil, structural, track, systems, and building-related engineering disciplines within complex rail environments.
• Proven experience in managing integrated engineering teams and coordinating complex design packages across multiple disciplines, particularly for conventional rail corridors, freight facilities, yards, depots, and associated infrastructure.
• Strong background in railway project design, including coordination of civil, structural, track, systems, and operational interfaces, with specific experience in conventional railway engineering standards, freight operations, and heavy-haul or mixed-traffic rail systems.
• Prior experience in an Engineering Manager, Design Manager, or similar senior engineering leadership role on major railway or freight infrastructure programs.
• Gulf experience is preferred.

Essential Skills and Knowledge

• Strong understanding of design development processes, design assurance, technical governance, interface management, and authority approval requirements, particularly within conventional rail and freight project environments.
• Demonstrated ability to manage consultants, engineering deliverables, technical reviews, and cross-functional coordination in complex project environments, including those involving freight operators, rail authorities, and operational stakeholders.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, leadership, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong knowledge of HSE in design, quality standards, risk management, and engineering best practices, with an understanding of the safety, operational, and regulatory requirements relevant to conventional and freight railway systems.

Work Type and Equal Opportunity

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. SYSTRA is an equal opportunities company, and this position is open to all qualified applicants.