About the Role
Serco is seeking a Technical Advisor specializing in Railway Station Systems to join our team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This role will provide expert technical support for the Qiddiya Grand Central Station (GCS) development, covering concept to detailed design stages. The focus will be on the integration, operability, and maintainability of all hard and soft station systems, including utilities supply, to ensure safe, reliable, and operationally effective railway infrastructure throughout its lifecycle.
The Grand Central Station will host multiple rail modes, each with its own operator and safety management systems. This position requires a thorough understanding of the interfaces between host and guest operators, ensuring seamless system integration across operational boundaries. The role serves as the technical Operations & Maintenance (O&M) representative to the Lead Design Consultant (LDC), ensuring all systems are designed with consideration for maintenance access, operational resilience, asset replacement, safety obligations, and regulatory compliance.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide specialist technical support for the integration, operability, and maintainability of all hard and soft station systems, including utilities supply, for the Qiddiya Grand Central Station development.
- Act as the technical O&M representative to the Lead Design Consultant (LDC) during the concept design phase.
- Ensure station infrastructure and Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, and Hydraulic (MEPH) and Vertical Transport (VT) systems are designed to support safe, maintainable, reliable, and operationally effective railway infrastructure throughout the asset lifecycle.
- Provide technical review and advisory support to the LDC concerning station MEPH systems and associated infrastructure.
- Review schemes and designs from an O&M perspective to ensure alignment with operational and maintainability requirements.
- Ensure that maintenance access, isolation requirements, lifting strategies, and replacement provisions are incorporated into designs, considering operational requirements.
- Assess lifecycle maintenance requirements and operational impacts associated with technical systems.
- Support the development of maintenance philosophies and maintainability strategies for station infrastructure.
- Review plant room zoning, equipment access arrangements, and technical accommodation requirements.
- Ensure that operational resilience, redundancy, and maintainability of critical systems are considered in the design.
- Support the identification and management of technical operational risks.
- Participate in schematic design reviews, technical workshops, and interdisciplinary coordination activities.
- Support the development of asset information, maintenance data, and lifecycle management requirements.
- Contribute to safety assurance, hazard identification, and operational readiness activities.
- Ensure alignment with railway regulatory requirements, standards, and industry best practices.
- Support the integration of station systems into future maintenance and asset management frameworks.
Qualifications and Experience
- Significant technical experience within railway, metro, or major transportation infrastructure environments.
- Strong experience with MEPH systems design and integration principles within complex operational facilities.
- Experience supporting maintainability and operational integration during infrastructure design development.
- Strong understanding of railway operational environments and safety-critical infrastructure.
- Knowledge of lifecycle asset management and maintainability principles.
- Understanding of railway regulatory requirements and operational licensing considerations.
- Ability to identify technical operational risks and develop practical mitigation strategies.
- Experience supporting design assurance, systems integration, or technical governance processes.
- Experience on underground or sub-surface railway stations is desirable.
- GCC railway project experience is desirable.
- Experience with Systems Assurance and Systems Engineering principles is desirable.
- Familiarity with asset management systems and ISO 55000 principles is desirable.
- Experience supporting operational readiness or handover activities is desirable.
- Understanding of Fire Life Safety Systems, Security, and critical infrastructure resilience requirements is desirable.
- Knowledge of railway station operational interfaces and passenger environment considerations is desirable.
Required Skills
- MEPH systems design
- Integration principles
- Maintainability
- Operational integration
- Railway operational environments
- Safety critical infrastructure
- Lifecycle asset management
- Railway Regulatory requirements
- Technical operational risks
- Design assurance
- Systems integration
- Technical governance
- Systems Assurance
- Systems Engineering
- Asset management systems
- ISO 55000 principles
- Operational readiness
- Handover activities
- Fire Life Safety Systems
- Security
- Critical infrastructure resilience
- Railway station operational interfaces
- Passenger environment considerations
- Communication
- Leadership
- Teamwork
- Problem-solving
Work Environment and Details
This full-time position is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role requires significant technical experience, with a preference for candidates possessing over 10 years of relevant experience in railway or major transportation infrastructure environments. The company is Serco.