Senior Track Engineer

Arup; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Profit sharing

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Arup is recruiting a Senior Track Engineer to lead design production for major rail projects in Scotland and across the UK. You will determine track design requirements, develop effective solutions, and provide technical input across multiple rail schemes, with responsibility for mentoring and delivering safe, high-quality outcomes.

You will manage design risk, coordinate interfaces, and contribute to industry standards while collaborating with clients and partners across the North team.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree or equivalent qualification with Chartered status or progression toward professional certification.
• Experience producing and checking Permanent Way feasibility, schemes and detailed designs.
• Ability to lead collaborative teams and coordinate multidisciplinary interfaces.
• Understanding of industry tools used in track design and common data environments.
• Experience as CRE on Network Rail projects is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead design production and delivery for medium and large projects, including checks of drawings, calculations, and reports.
• Coordinate interfaces with other disciplines and external parties; ensure client requirements are understood.
• Mentor and develop colleagues in Scotland and across the UK, including apprentices and graduates.
• Identify, eliminate and mitigate design risk; support CDM designer's risk assessments and safety processes.
• Collaborate with the wider North team, including presence in Manchester and York, and interact with technical leads.

Skills

Team leadership

Design coordination

Risk management

Stakeholder communication

Mentoring

Education

Engineering degree

Chartered status / professional certification

Tools

Bentley RailTrack

OpenRail

ProjectWise

ClearRoute 2

Track-Ex

SD Calculator

Bentley MicroStation

Job description

The Opportunity

This is an opportunity to take a leading role in the growth and development of our Scotland Permanent Way Design team. You will combine strong technical judgement with collaborative leadership, helping us deliver multidisciplinary rail projects and bids that achieve safe, technically excellent and meaningful outcomes for our clients and the communities they serve. You will determine track design requirements from client briefs, make sound engineering decisions and develop effective design solutions. You will provide and assure technical design input across rail projects, coordinate interfaces with other disciplines and external parties, and ensure client and project requirements are clearly understood.

As a senior member of the team, you will lead design production and delivery for medium and large projects, including checking drawings, calculations, reports and other track design deliverables. Experience acting as a Contractor’s Responsible Engineer (CRE) on Network Rail projects would be a strong advantage. You will also manage the identification, elimination and mitigation of design risk within the discipline. This includes supporting Safe by Design, producing focused CDM designer’s risk assessments and contributing to the Common Safety Method process. You will share knowledge, good practice and innovation across the wider North and UK rail teams. A key part of the role will be leading and developing people. You will manage and mentor colleagues in Scotland, including apprentices, graduates and technicians, and support their progression towards professional qualifications. You will work closely with the wider North team, with a presence in Manchester and York, and collaborate with technical leads and staff managers across the UK.

Our multidisciplinary portfolio includes Haymarket Depot, Transpennine Route Upgrade West of Leeds, Northern Powerhouse Rail, Metro 2 Washington and Lisburn–Antrim.

At Arup, you belong to an extraordinary collective – in which we encourage individuality to thrive. Our strength comes from how we respect, share and connect our diverse experiences, perspectives and ideas.You will have the opportunity to do socially useful work that has meaning – to Arup, to your career, to our members and to the clients and communities we serve.

Is this role right for you?

We are looking for people who:

• Have an engineering degree or equivalent qualification, with Chartered status or progress towards professional certification or membership.
• Bring substantial experience producing and checking Permanent Way feasibility, scheme and detailed designs, including reports, layouts and calculations for station throats, switches and crossings renewals, plain line renewals and infrastructure gauging.
• Can lead collaborative teams, coordinate multidisciplinary design interfaces and build strong working relationships with clients, technical leads and delivery partners, while mentoring and developing others.
• Have proficiency in relevant industry tools, including Bentley RailTrack, OpenRail, ProjectWise, ClearRoute 2, Track-Ex, SD Calculator and Bentley MicroStation within Common Data Environments.
• Understand relevant legislation, standards and assurance processes, including CDM, CSM, Network Rail Company Standards, RSSB Railway Industry Standards and National Technical Specification Notices.
• Experience acting as a CRE on Network Rail projects is desirable and will help you make an early impact, but we welcome applications from candidates whose broader leadership and Permanent Way experience strongly aligns with the role.

What we offer you

At Arup, we care about each member’s success, so we can grow together.

Guided by our values, we provide an attractive total reward package that recognises the contribution of each of our members to our shared success. As well as competitive, fair and equitable pay, we offer a career in which all of our members can belong, grow and thrive – through benefits that support health and wellbeing, a wide range of learning opportunities and many possibilities to have an impact through the work they do.

• Private medical insurance, Life assurance, Accident insurance and Income protection cover.
• Profit Share is a key part of our reward, enabling members to share in the results of our collective efforts.
• In addition, you’ll have access to flexible benefits to help you look after all aspects of your wellbeing and give you the freedom and flexibility to find the best solutions for you, your family, and your individual needs.

Senior Track Engineer Glasgow, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom