Railway Program Director: Major Infrastructure Delivery

Egis Group; Manila; On-site; PHP 3,000,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Egis Group is seeking a Railway Project Director to lead planning, execution, delivery and operational readiness of major railway infrastructure projects. This role provides strategic leadership across all phases, ensuring on-schedule delivery within budget and in compliance with safety, quality, environmental, and regulatory requirements.

You will steer end-to-end system integration, PSD turn-key delivery, governance, and reporting, while managing relationships with clients, government

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree or higher in engineering.
• 15+ years in major infrastructure, transportation, or railway projects.
• Proven experience leading large-scale railway, metro, LRT, MRT, or high-speed rail projects.
• Strong understanding of railway systems including track, signalling, telecommunications, power systems, PSD, rolling stock and stations.
• Demonstrated success in managing complex stakeholder environments.
• Shows strong leadership of multicultural teams, strategic thinking, and decision making.
• Contractually astute, with a good understanding of contract management, budget control, financial analysis.
• Excellent communication skills, stakeholder engagement and influencing.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of System Integration team and Platform Screen Doors turn-key projects from design to handover.
• Establish project governance structures, performance measures, and reporting mechanisms.
• Ensure project objectives, milestones, and deliverables are met within contractual requirements.
• Provide strategic direction to project leadership teams.
• Develop and maintain relationships with clients, regulators, contractors and stakeholders.
• Oversee budgets, forecasts, cash flow, and financial performance; monitor costs and mitigate risks.
• Lead and mentor the multidisciplinary project team and coordinate collaboration across stakeholders.
• Oversee construction, testing, commissioning and handover to operations.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Contract management

Budgeting & finance

Communication

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor degree or higher in engineering

Job description

Egis Group is seeking a Railway Project Director to lead planning, execution, delivery and operational readiness of major railway infrastructure projects. This role provides strategic leadership across all phases, ensuring on-schedule delivery within budget and in compliance with safety, quality, environmental, and regulatory requirements.

You will steer end-to-end system integration, PSD turn-key delivery, governance, and reporting, while managing relationships with clients, government