Technical Head - Track Systems

Technical & Strategic Leadership

• Act as a trusted technical authority and SME, providing strategic guidance to clients and internal teams.
• Lead development of track systems solutions ensuring best-in-class technical delivery.
• Provide oversight on all elements of track systems lifecycle that reside in this domain.
• Provide valuable experience and insight into other areas such as, but not exclusively, contracting and technical deployment strategies, design, manufacturing, installation, testing and commissioning, operational readiness and asset management.
• Proactively identify and resolve technical challenges and constraints.

Project Delivery and Operations and Asset Management

• Lead and oversee track alignment assignments.
• Lead and oversee delivery of major and multidisciplinary rail projects.
• Ensure delivery excellence across scope, schedule, cost, and quality.
• Manage critical railway system interfaces. For example rail and wheel interfaces, stations and complex railway infrastructure junctions.
• Ensure compliance with assurance, approvals, and certification requirements.
• Lead and oversee delivery of operations (including entry into service and operational readiness) 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 (for example, Rolling stock and civils infrastructure).
• Promote adoption of digital and advanced control technologies.
• Support innovation in areas such as smart mobility, industrialized manufacturing, implementation and data-driven systems.

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 track systems discipline.

Essential Experience & Skills

• Degree-qualified in Engineering or a related discipline.
• Extensive experience (15+ years) in track systems across high-speed, conventional, freight and metro railways.
• Strong expertise in track systems architecture and integration.
• 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 track 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 organisations.

Desirable Experience & Skills

• Knowledge of depot management and delivery, operations and maintenance requirements.
• Additional language skills.