Technical Head - Traction and Power Network

Atkins Realis Group

Technical & Strategic Leadership

• Act as a trusted technical authority and SME, providing strategic guidance to clients and internal teams.
• Lead development of complex rail power network system solutions (Traction/HV/LV), 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 exclusively, 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 and suppliers 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 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 Power Network and Controls Systems discipline.

Essential Experience & Skills

• Degree-qualified in Engineering or a related discipline.
• Extensive experience (15+ years) in rail power and control systems across high-speed, conventional and metro railways.
• Strong expertise in power system architecture, integration, and railway power 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.
• Experience in the design, implementation, testing and commissioning of power systems, including the operational and asset management of such systems.
• 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 organizations.

Desirable Experience & Skills

• Knowledge of rail power and control systems: Traction systems (OCS and 3rd rail). High and low voltage. Controls and monitoring (SCADA).
• Additional language skills