Senior Pway Engineer

Arcadis; Dublin; On-site; EUR 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcadis is seeking a Senior Permanent Way Engineer to deliver railway infrastructure projects in Dublin. You'll lead design tasks and ensure high-quality outcomes while mentoring junior engineers.

The role involves working closely with project managers and technical specialists in a dynamic environment. Applicants should have a degree in Civil or Mechanical Engineering and experience in rail or infrastructure.

Arcadis champions sustainable solutions and values diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

Qualifications

• Experience in permanent way design delivery on rail projects.
• Strong understanding of relevant railway standards.
• Ability to produce high-quality technical reports.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of permanent way design tasks across project phases.
• Coordinate technical deliverables ensuring accuracy and compliance.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to team development.

Skills

Permanent way design

Alignment design

Engineering judgement

Team collaboration

Education

Degree in Civil Engineering or Mechanical Engineering

Tools

Bentley permanent way applications

ProjectWise

Job description

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description

As a Senior Permanent Way Engineer, you will play a key role in the successful delivery of multidisciplinary rail infrastructure projects, leading defined packages of permanent way design work and supporting the coordination, checking and assurance of technical outputs across a range of schemes. You will apply your knowledge of alignment design and permanent way principles to help deliver safe, pragmatic and high‑quality outcomes for clients, while taking responsibility for allocated technical scope with a high degree of autonomy across complex project environments.

Working within a dynamic multidisciplinary rail design environment, you will collaborate closely with project managers, technical specialists, and client teams on commissions that may include major stations, depot projects and other single‑ or multi‑discipline rail schemes. The role offers the opportunity to broaden your experience from feasibility and optioneering through detailed design and construction support, while also taking greater responsibility for technical quality, mentoring junior engineers and contributing to the continued growth of Arcadis’ rail capability in Ireland.

Role Accountabilities

• Lead the delivery of defined permanent way design tasks and work packages across multiple stages of the project lifecycle, including feasibility, optioneering, design development, detailed design and construction support.
• Apply sound engineering judgement in the development of permanent way design solutions, including alignment design, plain line, S&C and gauging, to produce safe, pragmatic and client‑focused outcomes.
• Take responsibility for the preparation, coordination, checking and review of drawings, calculations, reports and other technical deliverables, ensuring accuracy, quality and compliance with project requirements and applicable standards.
• Coordinate interfaces with wider rail systems, civils, structures, signalling, project delivery and other design disciplines to support fully integrated and constructible engineering solutions.
• Apply safe‑by‑design principles and support compliance with relevant health, safety and design risk management requirements, including CDM‑related design considerations where applicable.
• Support the use of digital tools and common data environments in the management and development of project information, including Bentley permanent way applications and ProjectWise where applicable.
• Plan and manage assigned work efficiently, taking ownership of delivery to programme, quality and budget requirements, while maintaining awareness of scope, change and efficient delivery to support overall project performance.
• Provide guidance, checking support and technical mentoring to graduate, assistant and junior engineers, helping develop capability, confidence and consistency within the team, and supporting the review of their outputs where appropriate.
• Liaise effectively with project teams, technical leaders, clients and other stakeholders to communicate progress, address issues and support timely resolution of design and delivery matters.
• Contribute to technical innovation, continuous improvement and the development of efficient design and delivery approaches across permanent way engineering activities.

Qualifications & Experience

Essential

• Degree in Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or another relevant engineering discipline.
• Experience working on rail or infrastructure projects within a design and engineering environment, with demonstrable experience in permanent way design delivery.
• Strong understanding of permanent way principles, including alignment design, plain line, S&C and gauging.
• Ability to produce and review technical reports and engineering outputs to a high standard of technical accuracy and presentation.
• Awareness of relevant railway standards applicable to permanent way engineering design.
• Ability to work effectively in dynamic multidisciplinary teams with a hands‑on approach to technical project delivery.
• Working towards, or already holding, Incorporated or Chartered status through a recognised institution such as the Permanent Way Institution, Institution of Mechanical Engineers or Institution of Civil Engineers.

Desirable

• Experience of project delivery in 3D BIM environments and common data environments such as ProjectWise.
• Experience using Bentley permanent way design applications such as BRT or OpenRail.
• Some understanding of track componentry, installation techniques and construction‑stage considerations.
• Exposure to design interfaces, staging, constructability or technical assurance activities on multidisciplinary rail schemes.
• Experience supporting client‑facing design reviews, technical coordination or multidisciplinary rail delivery.

Why Arcadis

Arcadis empowers its employees to be their best, supporting a skills‑based career path that maximises the impact of each individual. The company focuses on sustainable solutions and careers that drive a more prosperous planet.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work each day. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life, and we work closely with our people across six ED&I workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race.