Senior Rail Project Leader – Complex Infrastructure

Arup; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Profit share

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Income protection

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Arup is seeking a Senior Project Manager, Rail to join a multidisciplinary team, based in Glasgow, Manchester or York. You will lead the delivery of technically excellent rail projects and bids across the UK portfolio, coordinating design teams and managing scope, programmes and budgets.

You will build trusted client relationships, guide colleagues, and share knowledge across the business, owning project delivery plans and ensuring completion while capturing lessons learned for continuous

Qualifications

• Significant experience managing multidisciplinary rail or complex infrastructure design projects.
• Proven experience leading projects and multidisciplinary teams, delivering successful outcomes and building trusted relationships with clients, project partners and other stakeholders.
• Good knowledge of the rail industry, ideally gained across areas such as stations, depots, civils, enhancements, remodelling, renewals, electrification, decarbonisation, rolling stock or rail systems.
• An appropriate degree or equivalent qualification, together Chartered Project Professional (ChPP) status or a clear pathway towards chartership. An Association for Project Management (APM) Project Management Qualification, or equivalent, would be advantageous.
• Strong communication, organisation and leadership skills, with a collaborative and adaptable approach.
• A willingness to travel to client or project sites across the UK when project needs require.
• Experience of mentoring and developing colleagues, improving project delivery processes, or using data analysis and visualisation tools such as Microsoft Excel or Power BI would be beneficial, but is not essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead the successful delivery of technically excellent rail projects and bids across the UK portfolio.
• Coordinate engineering and design activities, interfaces, programmes, budgets, scope, quality and commercial performance.
• Manage communication between clients, multidisciplinary teams, subcontractors and delivery partners to meet objectives.
• Own project delivery plans and oversee projects through to completion, capturing lessons learned and maintaining records.

Skills

Rail project management

Client relationships

Leadership

Communication

Travel readiness

Data analysis

Education

Degree or equivalent

ChPP status or chartership pathway

APM qualification advantageous

Tools

Power BI

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Arup is seeking a Senior Project Manager, Rail to join a multidisciplinary team, based in Glasgow, Manchester or York. You will lead the delivery of technically excellent rail projects and bids across the UK portfolio, coordinating design teams and managing scope, programmes and budgets.

You will build trusted client relationships, guide colleagues, and share knowledge across the business, owning project delivery plans and ensuring completion while capturing lessons learned for continuous