We are seeking a Track Design Engineer with a solid design background to extend PMC services for a major client in Saudi Arabia. The role focuses on leading and assuring track alignment design for rail projects, aligning multidisciplinary interfaces, and driving delivery to client standards.
Responsibilities
- Support the Engineering Lead to review horizontal and vertical alignment design for mainline, depot, and yard tracks using industry-standard tools (e.g., Bentley OpenRail, Civil 3D, MX).
- Define and enforce geometric design criteria, alignment control parameters, and tolerances across project phases (concept, preliminary, detailed design).
- Conduct design checks, optioneering, and value engineering for alignments, turnouts, crossovers, and transition curves to optimize performance, maintainability, and cost.
- Ensure compliance with international and regional rail standards and client-specific requirements, integrating RAMS, maintainability, and ride quality considerations.
- Act as the integrated PMC representative to the client, coordinating multi-disciplinary interfaces (civil, structures, trackwork, OCS, signaling, drainage, utilities).
- Manage technical queries, change requests, and design approvals, maintaining clear audit trails and configuration control.
- Lead design risk management for alignment choices, including ground conditions, utilities, third-party constraints, and environmental factors.
- Oversee contractor and designer performance on alignment deliverables, ensuring baseline schedule and quality adherence.
- Maintain design schedules, registers, and progress reporting for alignment-related works.
- Prepare and present technical reports, design review comments, and decision logs to client stakeholders.
- Ensure constructability and staging are embedded in alignment design, supporting site teams during construction and responding to RFIs.
- Implement robust quality assurance processes, including independent design reviews and verification/validation activities.
- Align deliverables with KSA authority requirements and applicable standards; support permitting and approvals.
- Engage with stakeholders, authorities, and third parties to resolve constraints, protect corridors, and secure approvals.
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or related discipline; Master's preferred.
- Minimum 10 years of experience in railway track alignment and geometric design, including significant involvement in major rail programs.
- Proven experience in the KSA or GCC on rail design projects is strongly preferred; familiarity with KSA standards and authority processes is an advantage.
- Proficiency with rail alignment and civil design software (e.g., OpenRail/OpenRoads, Civil 3D, MX, PowerRail Track) and with model/drawing production workflows (BIM preferred).
- Solid knowledge of track geometry principles (UIC/EN/AREMA as applicable), turnouts and special trackwork, transition curves, cant and cant deficiency, and alignment constraints in urban and high-speed/metro environments.
- Demonstrated experience managing multidisciplinary interfaces and performing PMC/consultancy functions with clients.
- Strong communication, report writing, and stakeholder management skills; ability to lead technical meetings and drive decisions.
- Experience with quality systems, risk management, and configuration control for design packages.
