Location
London, Manchester or Birmingham Offices, UK

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
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. We are seeking a Senior/Principal Track Engineer to join our established Rail Engineering Services team in the Midlands, leading the technical delivery of a diverse portfolio of rail engineering projects across the UK, Ireland, and overseas. This role involves working from our London, Manchester, or Birmingham offices.

You will support the management of the Track team, take a leading role as a Lead Designer on project delivery, and contribute to the wider track community by enhancing design processes and tools. Mentoring and developing the next generation of engineers will be a key part of your role. You will support major projects including East West Rail, Northern Powerhouse Rail, and Dublin Metrolink.

Setting a strong example for health, safety, and welfare on your projects is essential, as is fostering a robust safety culture within the delivery team. You will lead design coordination activities such as integrated design reviews and promote digitalisation to improve delivery efficiency.

You will work on inspiring projects for a variety of infrastructure owners, national and local governments, and public and private sector clients including Translink, Transport Infrastructure Ireland, MetroLink, Iarnród Éireann-Irish Rail, Network Rail, and HS2. The Track Engineering Service Line is a team of professionally qualified, talented, and diverse individuals delivering track engineering support across all lifecycle stages from concept to detailed design and construction, with a global footprint spanning projects from Toronto to Sydney.

Experience
- Knowledge of track engineering for both heavy and light rail schemes
- Experience delivering projects to various standards, including Network Rail
- Strong experience across multiple parts of the full project lifecycle from 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, appropriate to project size
- Chartered or incorporated registration with a relevant professional engineering institution

About you
- Strong leadership and mentoring skills to support the development of junior engineers
- Commitment to health, safety, and welfare, promoting a strong safety culture
- Ability to coordinate design activities and promote digitalisation within project delivery
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills to work effectively with diverse clients and teams

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