Location
London, Manchester or Birmingham Offices

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
What if you could do the kind of work the world needs? At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

We are seeking a Track Engineer to join our established Rail Engineering Services team in the Midlands to lead on the technical delivery of our diverse portfolio of rail engineering projects across the UK & Ireland, and overseas. This role will require time working in our London, Manchester or Birmingham offices.

Key responsibilities include supporting the management of the Track team in Birmingham, London or Manchester; taking a leading role on project delivery as a Lead Designer; supporting the wider track community through contributing to development design processes and tools; mentoring and supporting the development of the next generation of engineers; supporting major projects in the UK, Ireland and globally including schemes like East West Rail, Northern Powerhouse Rail and Dublin Metrolink; setting an example for health, safety and welfare on your projects and instilling a strong safety culture within the delivery team; and leading design coordination activities such as integrated design reviews and promoting digitalisation to aid delivery.

You will work on exciting and inspiring projects for a variety of infrastructure owners, national and local governments, public and private sector clients including Translink, Transport Infrastructure Ireland, MetroLink, Iarnród Éireann-Irish Rail, Network Rail and HS2. You will be part of the Track Engineering Service Line – a team of professionally qualified, talented and diverse individuals that work together to deliver track engineering support across all stages of the lifecycle from concept stage to detailed design and construction. The team has a global footprint supporting project delivery worldwide with recent work spanning Toronto to Sydney, providing clients with technical excellence through our delivery of projects.

Experience
- Knowledge of track engineering for both heavy and light rail schemes
- Experience delivering projects to a variety of standards, including Network Rail
- Strong experience across multiple parts of the full project lifecycle from initial feasibility studies to detailed design and implementation
- Experience delivering designs using Bentley OpenRail Designer
- Experience undertaking the role of Track Lead Designer as CRE or Deputy CRE as appropriate to project size
- Chartered or incorporated registration with a relevant professional engineering institution

Desirable
- Corridor modelling experience
- Experience using Autodesk Civil3D for delivering linear infrastructure
- International project delivery experience

About you
Proactive and motivated engineer with strong leadership skills, able to mentor and support junior engineers. Committed to health, safety and welfare, and passionate about promoting a strong safety culture within project teams. Able to work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams and adapt to a dynamic project environment.