Senior Rail Engineering Manager

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AECOM is looking for a Rail Engineering Manager to take a pivotal role in one of Ireland's most exciting infrastructure moments. With a strong pipeline of light and heavy rail projects being tendered by Irish Rail, Transport Infrastructure Ireland, and Translink, this is an opportunity to shape how Ireland moves.

You'll work across landmark programmes including the Western Rail Corridor, DART+, Luas network expansions, Belfast Line upgrades, and the reinstatement of the Lisburn–Antrim line — projects that will define Ireland's transport landscape for generations.

Here’s what you’ll do:

You'll lead project delivery across Ireland, providing technical leadership from early-stage development through to execution, and ensuring our work consistently meets client expectations. Beyond delivery, you'll play an active role in winning work — contributing to positioning strategy, leading tender preparation, and building the kind of client relationships that open doors.

A key part of the role is connecting the dots. You'll draw on specialist expertise from rail engineering disciplines across the UK and AECOM's wider Enterprise Capability network, bringing the right knowledge to the right projects at the right time. Multi-disciplinary teams will look to you as a central coordinator — someone who keeps collaboration tight and knowledge flowing.

Collaborate - Lead the Design on multi-disciplinary projects ensuring our engineers deliver integrated designs and building effective relationships with our technical teams and Clients. Build relationships with technical teams within the organisation and individuals inside and outside of the organisation to achieve project delivery.

Deliver - Be responsible for interpreting, planning, organising, executing, and coordinating complex, novel and large multi-disciplinary projects and tenders.  These projects will range from stations to train maintenance and servicing depots and power supply upgrades.  We also provide support for other parts of AECOM’s business on major multidisciplinary projects.

Safeguard - Lead technical management of Safe by Design (Including compliance with CDM and CSM). Be responsible for appointment of competent discipline lead engineers for technical delivery. Plan for engineering tasks concerned with unique problems. This involves exploration of subject area, definition of scope and selection of problems for investigation and development of novel concepts and approaches.

Anticipate - Working through the complexities of our Transportation projects, you will work with our clients to overcome them.

Innovate - Bring your ideas to the door, we are proud of our innovative and industry leading minds! At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives.

Thrive - Contribute to the development of the other members of the LSE EM Team, including mentoring, line management and team briefings.  Lead the application of AECOM policies and procedures as they apply to technical delivery. Contribute to the development of the Engineering Management profession within AECOM, working with the Regional Engineering Manager to develop processes, procedures and training.

Sustain - Build sustainability into projects to provide holistic solutions to client’s challenges.

Here’s what we’re looking for:

We recognise a variety of experience, and backgrounds may suit this role and that experience levels in specific technical areas may vary.

• Chartered or Incorporated Engineer CEng / Ieng or working towards this status.
• Recognised engineering qualification or preferably a degree in Engineering.
• Has performed role of Design Engineering Manager in multiple scenarios
• Strong technical leadership of Design teams in the delivery of projects focused on delivering for the Client.
• Knowledge of system design interfaces and experience in technical engineering leadership which impact on discipline design principles and demonstrable experience of the successful management of interfaces within projects.
• People management skills

We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at [email protected].

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [email protected]  if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [email protected]  if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.