Senior Design Manager – Rail

Overview

As Rail Design Manager you lead the delivery and integration of multidisciplinary rail design across complex UK projects. You coordinate engineering activities, interfaces and assurance, and may act as CEM-D or equivalent to govern design work. You will foster trusted client and delivery-partner relationships while guiding risk, change and design reviews to support quality, programme and commercial outcomes. You also contribute to bids, mentor future design leaders and help grow Arup’s rail design management capabilities. This role offers impact through shaping rail solutions in collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Pay / Benefits

• Profit Share
• Private medical insurance
• Life assurance
• Accident insurance
• Income protection
• Flexible benefits

Responsibilities

• Lead and integrate multidisciplinary rail design delivery across complex UK projects
• Coordinate engineering activities, deliverables and technical interfaces
• Possess CEM-D or equivalent responsibilities, establishing governance and assurance
• Lead requirements, interfaces, risk, change and design reviews for sound technical decisions
• Maintain client-facing engineering contact, build trusted relationships and align with needs
• Support bids and work-winning through technical methodologies, estimates and resource planning
• Mentor aspiring Design Managers, CEMs and CREs and strengthen design management capability

Key requirements

• Strong experience leading multidisciplinary rail design delivery across feasibility, scheme and detailed design
• Experience operating as a CEM-D, CEM or equivalent engineering manager
• Knowledge of Network Rail design assurance processes and NR/L2/RSE/02009
• Relevant engineering qualification with Chartered Engineer status
• Knowledge of requirements, interfaces, risk, change, CDM, CSM and safe-by-design principles
• Confidence in leading multidisciplinary teams and building client/stakeholder relationships

• Collaborative approach
• Mentoring and knowledge sharing
• Client and stakeholder relationship building
• Engineering governance and assurance
• CEM/CEM-D and CRE coordination
• Requirements, interfaces, risk and change management

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