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Job Description
We are searching for a experienced Rail Signalling Project Engineer to join us here at AECOM in delivering safe, reliable, and compliant signalling solutions across the full project lifecycle, from feasibility and requirements definition through design, integration, testing, commissioning, and handover of Rail Projects.
As the Signalling Project Engineer you will be responsible for the assurance of signalling design for multi-disciplinary projects, predominately S&C renewals.
Here’s what you’ll do:
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Lead day-to-day engineering delivery for signalling work packages, ensuring safety, quality and schedule performance.
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Develop and manage technical scope, requirements, assumptions, and interfaces; maintain the design basis and configuration control.
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Coordinate multi-disciplinary inputs (signalling, telecoms, traction power, rolling stock, civils, E&P) and manage external interfaces (client, operator, maintainers, OEMs).
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Assure signalling deliverables: scheme plans, control tables, location area plans, wiring design, bonding/earthing, cable plans, BOQs, design reports, and test/commissioning documentation.
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Support hazard identification, safety assurance, RAMS, and SIL compliance; maintain hazard logs and contribute to safety cases.
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Support test and commissioning (factory/site) and defect resolution.
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Plan and undertake readiness reviews, and entry-into-service.
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Manage design reviews, constructability input, value engineering, and change control.
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Contribute to programme logic, risks, opportunities, and progress reporting; support earned value and forecasting.
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Ensure adherence to applicable standards, governance, and assurance processes
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Mentor junior engineers and contribute to continuous improvement, digital delivery, and lessons learned.
Qualifications
We are searching for someone with proven experience delivering rail signalling engineering on live projects across design, integration, testing, and/or commissioning stages.
Minimum Requirements:
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7.8.110F Engineering Manager Projects Engineering or 7.8.230F Senior Engineering Manager (Projects Engineering) licence, and/or registered with professional engineering institution (IRSE, IET etc.) at IEng or CEng.
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Experience of acting as Signalling Project Engineer
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Experience of delivering signalling design as part of multi-disciplinary rail systems projects
Beneficial:
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Holder of 1.1.160v6 Signalling Design Verifier
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Institution membership; IRSE, IET etc
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Professional registration; IEng, CEng etc (if in addition to applicable IRSE licence)
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Holder of PTS
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Engineering qualification; Degree, HND, HNC etc
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Experience of delivering signalling design as part of S&C renewals
Additional Information
At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.
About AECOM
AECOM 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 $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.
Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity
You 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 [email protected] if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.
About AECOM
AECOM 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 $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.
Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity
You 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 [email protected] if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
