Technical Head - Rail Control System

Atkins Realis Group

Employer Active

Posted 4 hrs ago

Experience

15 - 17 Years

Job Location

Riyadh - Saudi Arabia

Education

Any Graduation

Nationality

Any Nationality

Gender

Not Mentioned

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities

Technical & Strategic Leadership

  • Act as a trusted technical authority and SME, providing strategic guidance to clients and internal teams.
  • Lead development of complex rail control system solutions, ensuring best-in-class technical delivery.
  • Provide oversight of system architecture, integration strategies, and operational concepts.
  • Provide valuable experience and insight into other areas such as, but not excluslusively, contracting and technical deployment strategies, constructability and testing and commissioning.
  • Proactively identify and resolve technical challenges and constraints.

Project Delivery and Operations and Asset Management

  • Lead and oversee delivery of major and multidisciplinary rail projects.
  • Ensure delivery excellence across scope, schedule, cost, and quality.
  • Manage critical system interfaces across signaling, telecoms, and infrastructure.
  • Ensure compliance with assurance, approvals, and certification requirements.
  • Lead and oversee delivery of operations and asset management assignments.

Business Development

  • Lead bids, tenders, and procurement activities, providing both technical and commercial leadership.
  • Develop feasibility studies and strategic advisory inputs to support client decision-making.
  • Identify growth opportunities and strengthen AtkinsR alis market position.
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with key clients and stakeholders.

Innovation & Systems Integration

  • Drive development and optimisation of railway operational concepts and system interfaces.
  • Promote adoption of digital, communication, and advanced control technologies.
  • Support innovation in areas such as smart mobility, data-driven systems, and automation.

People, Competency & Capability Development

  • Lead, mentor, and develop engineering teams and technical specialists.
  • Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
  • Support knowledge sharing and development of technical best practices.
  • Contribute to strategic capability growth within the Rail Control Systems discipline.

Desired Candidate Profile

Essential Experience & Skills

  • Degree-qualified in Engineering or a related discipline.
  • Extensive experience (15+ years) in rail systems across high-speed, conventional and metro railways, including one or more of:
  • ETCS / ERTMS.
  • CBTC systems.
  • Train Management Systems (TMS).
  • GSM-R and telecommunications systems.
  • Railway signaling and operational control systems.
  • Strong expertise in system architecture, integration, and railway system performance.
  • Demonstrated leadership of complex, multidisciplinary rail projects.
  • Strong track record in senior stakeholder and client management.
  • Experience across assurance, approvals, and certification processes.
  • Experience in the management of equipment suppliers.
  • Proven ability to lead technical bids and consultancy assignments.
  • Excellent communication, leadership, and influencing skills.
  • Ability to manage multiple high-value assignments simultaneously.
  • Chartered Engineer.
  • Membership of a relevant professional institution.
  • Experience working across international rail projects and markets.
  • Experience of client and contractor organisations.

Desirable Experience & Skills

  • Knowleldge of rail control systems including:p>IP-based networks, data centres, and cloud infrastructure.

    • Knowledge of cybersecurity, data analytics, and AI applications in rail systems.

  • Additional language skills

Company Industry

  • Engineering Design & Consulting

Department / Functional Area

  • Engineering

Keywords

  • Technical Head - Rail Control System

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Atkins Realis Group

We're AtkinsR alis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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