Rail Systems Design Lead - Track & Safety Integration

BAM UK & Ireland; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company car/Travel allowance

8% matched pension

Private healthcare

Life assurance

26 days holiday

Wellbeing days

Volunteer day

Professional development

Job summary

BAM is seeking a Rail Systems Lead Design Manager to drive capability on the HS2 Track infrastructure project from the initial design phase. The role focuses on coordinating interfaces across Track systems, main works contractors, and alliance members, while aligning design across partners and third parties.

You will chair coordination meetings, manage design clashes, monitor progress against client requirements and milestones, and promote Health and Safety in Design.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in rail systems design, integration, and multidisciplinary coordination.
• Experience in contractor-led, design-and-build or alliance delivery environments.
• Experience managing external design organisations and consultant teams.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate technical interfaces between Track systems, Main Works Contractors, Design Partners 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 and third parties.
• Establish 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 stakeholders.
• Monitor and report design progress and ensure coordinated delivery per client requirements, standards, and milestones.
• Coordinate technical assurance activities related to spatial coordination and integrated design delivery.
• Ensure designs are reviewed, verified, and validated per governance requirements and standards.
• Monitor design compliance with client requirements.
• Coordinate and promote Health and Safety in Design across rail systems disciplines.
• Coordinate CDM processes and production of safety-related deliverables.
• Ensure hazards are identified, assessed, eliminated, or reduced through design.
• Facilitate design risk reviews and manage risks and communications.
• Support compliance with 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 design development and lifecycle.
• Support hazard identification, safety analyses, and safety approvals.
• Collaborate with safety specialists to achieve system safety requirements.

Skills

Rail systems design

System integration

Multidisciplinary coordination

Stakeholder management

Design leadership

Education

Degree in Civil or Mechanical Engineering

Chartered Engineer or working towards

ICE/IMechE/IET member

Job description

BAM is seeking a Rail Systems Lead Design Manager to drive capability on the HS2 Track infrastructure project from the initial design phase. The role focuses on coordinating interfaces across Track systems, main works contractors, and alliance members, while aligning design across partners and third parties.

You will chair coordination meetings, manage design clashes, monitor progress against client requirements and milestones, and promote Health and Safety in Design.