Job Description

Our Transportation business brings together expertise in rail, highways, and local transport into a multidisciplinary team delivering innovative and sustainable mobility solutions. Within Rail, our Systems & Infrastructure capability provides leading expertise across signaling, telecommunications, control systems, and integrated operations. We combine technical excellence with a human-centered approach, ensuring that railway systems are designed for performance, reliability, safety, and long-term operability.

The Engineering Management Director will lead all engineering management and technical assurance activities across the programme lifecycle, ensuring safe, integrated, and compliant delivery of civil, buildings, rail systems, utilities, and operational infrastructure packages.

Your role

• Lead the engineering management function across all disciplines and delivery packages.
• Oversee design review, technical assurance, and engineering governance processes.
• Ensure engineering deliverables comply with applicable standards, codes, employer requirements, and operational criteria.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary design interfaces between civil, track, systems, buildings, utilities, and operational stakeholders.
• Manage engineering risks, technical queries, design changes, and non-conformance resolution.
• Support constructability reviews, value engineering initiatives, and operational optimization activities.
• Monitor engineering progress against programme milestones, schedule commitments, and delivery priorities.
• Provide strategic technical guidance to programme leadership and client representatives.

About you

• Degree in Engineering or related technical discipline; Master’s degree preferred.
• Minimum 18 years’ engineering management experience on major infrastructure or rail programmes.
• Proven leadership of multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of systems integration and engineering governance.
• Experience with design management within client-side, consultancy, or contractor environments.
• Knowledge of international rail standards and Saudi regulatory requirements preferred.
• Excellent coordination, communication, and leadership capability.
• Chartered Engineer or equivalent professional accreditation preferred.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career.

This includes:

• Tax-free salary.
• Life insurance coverage.
• Medical insurance.
• Annual leave balance.
• Company gratuity scheme.
• Discretionary bonus program.
• Annual flight contribution.
• Transportation & housing allowances.
• Employee Wellbeing Program: 24/7 access to specialists in finance, legal matters, family care, personal health, fitness, and nutrition.

Seize every opportunity to sharpen your skills, expand your expertise, and be recognized for the impact you make.

About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Regular

At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.