Project Director – Rail

Overview

In this role, you will lead delivery of rail and transport infrastructure projects for TfL, embedding with client offices to translate requirements into deliverable work packages. You will shape scopes, estimates, and proposals while steering multidisciplinary teams to successful completion. You’ll manage governance, risk, and stakeholders, ensuring safe and compliant delivery to TfL standards. This is a high-visibility leadership role with substantial impact on transport programmes and business development.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible benefits scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• pension scheme with extra contributions
• career development and progression plans
• discounts through Save with Amey programme
• Cycle2Work and gym membership discounts

Responsibilities

• Develop trusted client relationships within the TfL offices
• Identify upcoming opportunities across rail and transport programmes
• Translate client requirements into defined scopes of work
• Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering and consulting teams for proposals and solutions
• Prepare estimates, budgets, commercial submissions and pricing
• Support business development and work-winning activities
• Lead project mobilisation and end-to-end delivery
• Oversee programme, budget, risk, stakeholder engagement, change control and reporting
• Serve as primary interface between client teams and delivery organisations
• Ensure delivery meets TfL safety, commercial, and governance standards

Key requirements

• 10+ years’ experience delivering rail or transport infrastructure projects
• Direct experience with TfL or in TfL environments (London Underground, Elizabeth Line, DLR, Trams, etc.)
• Ability to define project scopes from client needs
• Strong commercial and estimating capability with budget, pricing, financial control
• Experience managing multidisciplinary project teams
• Excellent client relationships and stakeholder management
• Knowledge of TfL governance, approvals and assurance processes

• strong stakeholder management
• excellent client relationship skills
• leadership and team coordination
• estimating and budgeting
• commercial submissions and pricing
• project governance and assurance processes

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