Track Works Expert (Rail)

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Job Description

Parsons is seeking an experienced Track Works Expert to join our team for a major rail project in the UAE. The successful candidate will provide technical leadership, design review, and assurance oversight for all permanent way (track) design and construction activities, ensuring compliance with project specifications, international standards, and best engineering practices.

This role focuses on design review, quality assurance, interface coordination, and contractor oversight, ensuring that the track systems are designed, constructed, and commissioned in line with performance, safety, and operational requirements.

What You'll Be Doing

• Provide technical expertise and assurance on all aspects of track design, alignment, materials, and construction methodologies.
• Review and approve track design submissions, specifications, drawings, and calculations to ensure compliance with project and international standards.
• Oversee the design review process, ensuring constructability, maintainability, and interface integration with civil, systems, and rolling stock disciplines.
• Evaluate contractor design and construction methodologies, ensuring alignment with project requirements and safety standards.
• Monitor and assess track installation, welding, stressing, and alignment works through audits and site inspections.
• Provide oversight on track geometry, tolerances, and quality control processes, ensuring compliance with acceptance criteria.
• Review and comment on track material specifications, procurement schedules, and inspection/testing procedures.
• Support interface coordination between track, civil structures, depots, and system packages to ensure seamless integration.
• Participate in technical workshops, coordination meetings, and design reviews as the subject matter expert (SME) for track works.
• Support the Client in evaluating technical submittals, design changes, and variation proposals related to track works.
• Ensure all designs and works comply with UAE regulations, project-specific standards, and international best practices.
• Prepare reports, technical notes, and recommendations for design compliance, risk mitigation, and construction readiness.
• Support testing, commissioning, and handover reviews from a track system perspective.
  
  
  

What Required Skills You'll Bring

• Bachelor’s Degree in Civil or Railway Engineering (Master’s degree preferred).
• Minimum 15 years of professional experience in track design, construction, and maintenance within major rail, metro, or high-speed projects.
• Proven expertise in ballasted and ballastless track systems, including slab track, turnouts, crossovers, and special trackwork.
• Strong understanding of track-structure interaction, alignment geometry, and rail material performance.
• Experience in coordinating interfaces between track, civil, and systems (signalling, traction power, telecoms).
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Proficiency in design and review tools such as AutoCAD, Bentley Rail Track, or similar software.
• Fluency in English (Arabic proficiency is an advantage).
• Previous experience on UAE or GCC rail projects is highly desirable.
  
  
  

Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels no matter the race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or genetic information.

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