Engineering Manager
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Job Description:
Parsons is looking for a talented Engineering Manager to join our dynamic team in the UAE. .
The role will lead multidisciplinary engineering activities across rail systems, civil works, structures, utilities, stations, and associated infrastructure, with particular focus on signaling interfaces, technical coordination, design compliance, constructability, and successful project delivery.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary engineering activities for rail, infrastructure, and associated systems.
- Manage design development, technical reviews, engineering deliverables, and design coordination.
- Provide technical oversight for rail systems, including signaling, track, power, telecommunications, stations, and civil infrastructure.
- Coordinate signaling interfaces with track, civil, traction power, communications, level crossings, control systems, and operations.
- Review drawings, calculations, specifications, technical submissions, method statements, and design changes.
- Lead technical workshops, constructability reviews, interface meetings, and engineering risk assessments.
- Ensure designs comply with project requirements, railway standards, authority regulations, safety requirements, and applicable international standards.
- Support resolution of RFIs, technical queries, nonconformances, design conflicts, and construction-related engineering issues.
- Monitor engineering progress, resources, technical risks, design changes, and impacts on cost and schedule.
- Provide technical support during construction, testing, commissioning, systems integration, handover, and closeout.
What Required Skills You’ll Bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, preferably Rail, Electrical, Electronics, Civil, Systems, or a related discipline.
- Minimum 15 years of experience in rail, metro, railway infrastructure, or major transportation projects.
- Proven experience managing multidisciplinary engineering teams and technical deliverables.
- Practical experience with railway signaling systems, signaling interfaces, or rail systems integration.
- Strong knowledge of rail infrastructure, trackwork, stations, utilities, structures, and associated systems.
- Experience reviewing designs, technical specifications, calculations, shop drawings, and contractor submissions.
- Knowledge of railway standards, RAMS, systems assurance, safety requirements, and authority approvals.
- Experience managing design interfaces between signaling, civil, track, power, telecommunications, and operational systems.
What Desired Skills You’ll Bring:
- Experience on metro, heavy rail, light rail, high-speed rail, or railway infrastructure projects.
- Experience with interlocking, train detection, point machines, level-crossing systems, automatic train protection, or train control systems.
- Familiarity with CBTC, ETCS, ATP, ATS, interlocking, and signaling control systems.
- Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with Clients, end users, operators, consultants, contractors, and regulatory authorities.
- Demonstrated commitment to innovation, sustainability, and excellence.
Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels no matter the race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or genetic information.
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