Rail Systems Design Lead – Integration & Safety

BAM UK & Ireland; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company car/allowance

Travel allowance

Pension 8% match

Private healthcare

Life assurance

26 days holiday

Wellbeing days

Volunteering day

Professional development

Job summary

The Ferrovial BAM Joint Venture is recruiting a Rail Systems Lead Design Manager to oversee design integration and coordination on the HS2 Track infrastructure project. Based in London or Birmingham, you will manage interfaces between track systems, contractors and alliance members, ensuring timely, compliant design delivery.

You will lead spatial coordination, governance, and safety assurance activities, coordinating with design partners and third parties to resolve clashes and deliver to

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in rail systems design, integration and coordination.
• Experience working within contractor-led, design and build or alliance delivery environments is preferred
• Experience working within large-scale rail infrastructure programmes.
• Experience managing external design organisations and consultant teams
• Strong understanding of design management processes within major rail or infrastructure projects.
• Experience managing design interfaces and spatial coordination in complex environments.
• Knowledge of technical assurance, systems engineering, and safety assurance principles.
• Understanding of Health and Safety in Design requirements and industry best practice.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and facilitation skills.
• Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and manage complex technical issues.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate technical interfaces between Track systems, Main Works Contractors and Alliance members.
• Support integration of multidisciplinary design deliverables across the Rail Systems programme.
• Facilitate resolution of engineering, programme and design interface issues.
• Support engineering governance and design assurance activities across the Alliance.
• Lead and manage the spatial coordination of rail systems designs produced by design partners, Rail System Alliance members and third parties.
• Establish, contribute and maintain robust design coordination processes as required.
• Manage resolution of design clashes, interface issues, and spatial conflicts to support efficient project delivery
• Chair and facilitate design coordination meetings, workshops, and reviews with relevant stakeholders.
• Monitor and report design progress and ensure coordinated delivery in accordance with Client requirements, standards, and milestones.
• Coordinate technical assurance activities related to spatial coordination and integrated design delivery.
• Ensure designs are reviewed, verified, and validated in accordance with project governance requirements and applicable standards.
• Monitor design compliance with Client requirements
• Coordinate and promote Health and Safety in Design principles across all rail systems disciplines.
• Coordinate CDM processes and production of safety-related deliverables
• Ensure hazards are identified, assessed, eliminated, or reduced through the design process wherever reasonably practicable.
• Facilitate design risk reviews and ensure risks are appropriately recorded, managed, and communicated.
• Support compliance with relevant health and safety legislation and client requirements.
• Support Client with Principal Designer duties
• Coordinate system safety activities across multidisciplinary design teams.
• Ensure safety requirements are integrated into the design development process and appropriately managed through the project lifecycle.
• Support hazard identification, safety analyses, safety assurance activities, and safety approvals.
• Collaborate with safety specialists and stakeholders to ensure system safety requirements are achieved.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance on design coordination matters.

Skills

Rail systems design

Integration

Coordination

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Safety assurance

Systems engineering

CDM knowledge

Communication skills

Education

Civil or Mechanical Engineering degree

Chartered Engineer (CEng) or working towards chartership

Membership of ICE/IMechE/IET

Job description

The Ferrovial BAM Joint Venture is recruiting a Rail Systems Lead Design Manager to oversee design integration and coordination on the HS2 Track infrastructure project. Based in London or Birmingham, you will manage interfaces between track systems, contractors and alliance members, ensuring timely, compliant design delivery.

You will lead spatial coordination, governance, and safety assurance activities, coordinating with design partners and third parties to resolve clashes and deliver to