Rail Engineering Manager

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Our Project delivery team provides comprehensive passenger and freight consultancy and engineering services to our core clients in UAE. Our scope includes the full spectrum of railway infrastructure requirements. From early feasibility studies, preliminary engineering design through to detailed design, implementation, and operational management advice, and we deliver excellence at every stage.

To manage our ongoing rail design scope, we are looking for an experienced Rail Engineering Manager (EM) with at least 15 years of experience in management of multi-disciplinary aspects of railway project, with good understanding of Systems Assurance.

EM responsibilities will include ensuring a clear understanding of the project remit, defining the scope, and managing the budget for each activity carried out by each discipline. EM will facilitate appropriate dialogue between disciplines and, where necessary, between different offices involved in the project. Additionally, EM will monitor outputs from the disciplines to ensure they cover all aspects of the remit and are consistent with each other.

Some of the key responsibilities for this role will include:
* Support the Project Director/ Project Manager: Control budgets for projects, including key milestones and targets related to time, cost, quality, and safety, ensuring objectives are achieved in line with programme plans.
* Champion Jacobs Delivery Tools: Ensure consistent use of Jacobs delivery tools and processes, guaranteeing all parties have an agreed understanding of the project and their roles within it.
* Foster Knowledge Sharing: Promote a culture of continuous improvement and knowledge sharing, demonstrating adaptability and commitment to supporting others in delivering high-quality service.
* Leadership: Lead a diverse team, encouraging new ways of thinking to provide an agile delivery environment.
* Implement Improvement Measures: Share good practices and implement improvement measures as applicable.
* Monitor Delivery Commitments: Be aware of delivery commitments made by each project discipline, address delivery issues as necessary, and take appropriate action.
* Technical Support: Provide technical support for Business Development opportunities as required from time to time on the programme and/or in the region.
* Manage Interfaces: Oversee interfaces throughout the programme at tactical and programme levels, ensuring System Engineering requirements are applied to project delivery.
* Author Engineering Management Plans: Develop and maintain engineering management plans.

We are a progressive and flexible team and offer great experience of being part of a significant project of national interest. Travel may be required to project and client sites/ offices, with occasional overnight stays.

We value collaboration and believe that in-person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best work.
* Engineering Degree with proven management experience gained across a range of rail projects in a multi-disciplinary environment
* Track record of successfully delivering complex multi-disciplinary projects within budget and on schedule
* Proven ability to engage with, influence, and manage communications at an operational level with the project team and both internal and external stakeholders.
* Understand the rail operational environment and constraints to find solutions to operational constraints.

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