Principal Rail Engineer (Track)

🚆 Principal Rail Engineer (Track)

📍 Location: London or Birmingham, UK | 💼 Discipline: Rail Infrastructure (Track Design)

🕓 Work Model: Hybrid | 🧭 Seniority Level: Principal | 📅 Full Time

🔧 Lead the Tracks That Move a Nation

At Ayesa , we don’t just design transportation networks—we shape the future of mobility. As we expand our rail capabilities in the UK, we’re seeking a Principal Rail Engineer (Track) with deep expertise in track design, rail systems integration, and infrastructure delivery to help drive high-profile rail projects forward.

This is more than a technical leadership role—it’s a chance to engineer lasting change across the UK rail sector, with the backing of an internationally respected infrastructure and technology consultancy.

🚀 What You’ll Be Doing

🛤️ Rail Design Leadership

• Lead the design of permanent way solutions, alignments, and associated infrastructure

• Ensure designs adhere to UK railway standards (e.g., Network Rail, HS2, AREMA, UIC) and project-specific technical requirements

📐 Design Assurance & Oversight

• Oversee technical design work—track layouts, calculations, and drawings

• Review and approve specifications and ensure compliance with industry and safety standards

📋 Project & Proposal Management

• Lead design input for proposals and feasibility studies

• Attend kick-off meetings and manage deliverables from concept to completion

• Coordinate across disciplines—civil, electrification, signalling, and structural teams

📊 Delivery, Risk & Compliance

• Monitor progress, manage risks, and ensure safety, environmental, and regulatory compliance

• Engage proactively with clients, regulators, and stakeholders to maintain alignment and confidence

🎯 Technical & Strategic Advisory

• Provide subject matter expertise on UK rail policy, engineering technology, and standards

• Support strategic initiatives including HS2 and other flagship programmes

• Ensuring compliance with health, safety, and environmental regulations.

• Acting as a technical advisor for clients, contractors, and regulatory bodies.

• Engaging with government authorities, rail operators, and infrastructure owners.

• Preparing reports, presentations, and technical documentation.

Requirements

✅ What You Bring

🎓 Qualifications & Credentials

• Degree in Civil, Rail, or Track Engineering (Master’s preferred)

• Chartered Engineer (CEng) or working toward it

• Certified Rail Engineer (CRE) status highly desirable

🛠️ Skills & Experience

• 8+ years’ experience delivering UK rail infrastructure projects in an engineering consultancy setting

• Familiarity with HS2 processes, standards, and procedures

• Extensive track design experience and cross-disciplinary collaboration

• Strong commercial acumen and understanding of cost, compliance, and delivery metrics

• Skilled in stakeholder engagement with government agencies, infrastructure owners, and operators

• Proficient in preparing bids, technical proposals, and regulatory submissions

• Excellent communication, report writing, and presentation skills

🎯 Personal Attributes

• Strategic thinker with attention to detail

• Able to work in high-pressure, safety-critical environments

• Highly motivated, team-focused, and delivery driven

🎁 What’s in It for You

• 💰 Competitive Salary + Performance-Based Bonuses

• 🏡 Flexible Hybrid Work Model

• 🕓 37.5 Hours Per Week | Core Flex: 10am–4pm (Mon–Thu), 10am–3pm (Fri)

• 📈 Chartership Support & Career Development Pathways

• 📚 Continuous Learning Culture

• 🏖️ Generous Annual Leave (with additional loyalty days)

• 🛡️ Income Protection & Life Assurance

• 💬 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

• 🌱 Work with a company at the forefront of sustainability and digital innovation

• 🏆 Recognition Awards, Wellness Initiatives & Regular Socials

🤝 We’re Inclusive by Design

Ayesa is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value and celebrate diversity in all its forms, including but not limited to age, disability, gender identity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, and socio-economic background or neurodiversity. We believe that a diverse workforce fosters innovation and stronger outcomes. We are committed to inclusive hiring practices, providing reasonable adjustments for applicants and employees with disabilities, and ensuring equal access to opportunities for learning, development, and progression across our organisation.