Principal Signalling Engineer

• Lead the technical direction and delivery of complex rail signalling projects, ensuring excellence in safety, quality, and innovation.
• Drive client engagement and business development, establishing us as a trusted partner across the rail industry.
• Mentor, develop, and inspire multi-disciplinary teams, fostering a culture of high performance and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with global experts, integrating best practices and digital solutions into local project delivery.
• Oversee project governance, risk management, and commercial performance, ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget.
• Represent us at industry forums, contributing thought leadership to our clients and the wider industry.

• Significant experience leading complex rail signalling design and delivery projects, ideally as Contractor’s Responsible Engineer (CRE) or equivalent.
• Comprehensive knowledge of UK rail industry standards, governance, and client expectations.
• IRSE Signalling Principles Licence (1.1.550) and IRSE Signalling Verifiers Licence (1.1.160) essential.
• Preferably Degree-qualified in a relevant engineering discipline; Chartered Engineer (CEng) status or equivalent.
• Track record in managing and developing technical teams, with a collaborative and empowering leadership style.
• Strong commercial acumen and stakeholder management skills.
• Commitment to promoting sustainability, inclusion, and digital innovation within project delivery.

Why Us?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone’s contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

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Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.