Job description - the role
AMS is a global workforce solutions partner committed to creating inclusive, dynamic, and future-ready workplaces.
We help organisations adapt, grow, and thrive in an ever-evolving world by building, shaping, and optimising diverse talent strategies.
We partner with Arup to support their contingent recruitment processes. Acting as an extension of their recruitment teams, we connect them with skilled interim and temporary professionals, fostering workplaces where everyone can contribute and succeed.
Candidate Profile: Key accountabilities, skills & experience
As a Senior Rail Civils Engineer, you will play a key role in delivering complex multidisciplinary rail projects, using your technical expertise and engineering judgement to develop effective, safe and innovative design solutions.
You will lead the civil engineering input across projects, interpreting client requirements and determining appropriate design solutions from feasibility through scheme and detailed design.
This is a client-facing role, where you will build trusted relationships, understand client needs, communicate technical solutions clearly and work collaboratively with clients and delivery partners throughout the project lifecycle.
You will provide technical leadership to our Rail Civils team, including reviewing drawings, calculations and technical documentation, managing design risks and supporting Safe by Design, CDM and Common Safety Method processes.
The skills you'll need
Bring strong experience delivering and checking rail civils designs across feasibility, scheme and detailed design stages within multidisciplinary rail projects.
Have a degree, HND or equivalent experience in Civil Engineering or a related discipline, ideally alongside Chartered Engineer status with a relevant professional institution such as the ICE.
Have a sound understanding of Network Rail standards, RSSB Railway Industry Standards, CDM, CSM and Safe by Design principles, with experience as a Network Rail CRE being particularly valuable.
Are confident working collaboratively across multidisciplinary design teams and can provide technical leadership, mentoring and development to colleagues at different stages of their careers.
About the client
Arup is an equal opportunity employer that actively promotes and nurtures a diverse and inclusive workforce.
Guided by its values and alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, Arup creates and contributes to equitable spaces and systems, while cultivating a sense of belonging for all.
Arup's internal employee networks support their inclusive culture: from race, ethnicity and cross-cultural working to gender equity and LGBTQ+ and disability inclusion - creating a space for everyone to express themselves and make a positive difference.