Job Description

Senior Signalling Engineer

Amey is a leading provider of full life‑cycle engineering, operations and decarbonisation solutions for transport infrastructure and complex facilities.

Working for us, you’ll be delivering sustainable infrastructure solutions that enhance life and protect our shared future.

Our people are driven by a set of strong values, based on safety, insight and collaboration.

The Opportunity

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Signalling Engineer / Signalling Designer (IRSE 1.1.510 aligned) to join our Consulting Rail team in Manchester or Birmingham.

Our signalling teams are improving connectivity, bringing better journeys to passengers, and engineering the future of rail safety, reliability and efficiency.

Key Projects

As an appointed Design Partner on some of the UK’s most significant and complex rail infrastructure projects including Wales & Borders. We are proud to support major programmes such as Northern Powerhouse Rail, Eastern Routes Partnership, Northwest & Central Framework, Core Valley Lines, Trans-Pennine Route Upgrade, and Cardiff Crossrail. Our in-house engineering team delivers design solutions across all Network Rail stages and disciplines, driving improved connectivity, enhancing passenger journeys, and shaping the future of rail safety and efficiency.

These projects also provide a diverse range of opportunities for personal and professional development, whether you are working on long-term, high-value programmes or smaller, community-focused initiatives. With these frameworks in place, you will have the chance to influence infrastructure projects that shape the region’s future.

The Role

To act as a Team Leader producing and overseeing technically sound signalling deliverables (designs, calculations, drawings, documentation) that meet quality, cost and programme requirements, and to manage the actions of a small-to-medium single-discipline team.

In addition, the role is accountable for delivering integrated “non-principles” signalling design within defined boundaries in line with the IRSE 1.1.510 Signalling Designer scope - i.e., configuring standard design constructs to a specific implementation while ensuring operational, technical and safety principles are satisfied.

Responsibilities include:

• Producing integrated non‑principles signalling designs within your Authority to Work, ensuring all operational, technical and safety principles are satisfied.
• Taking a holistic view of system interactions, recognising impacts on related assets, and escalating non‑standard or principles‑level issues appropriately.
• Leading the production and checking of signalling designs, calculations, drawings and documentation in accordance with standards and client requirements.
• Managing and coordinating design teams, supervising junior engineers and supporting their development.
• Acting as day‑to‑day engineering contact, including undertaking CRE activities
• Managing budgets, cost control, programme delivery and contributing to the commercial success of projects.
• Liaising with clients and suppliers, attending progress meetings and resolving technical queries.
• Supporting work‑winning and bid activity through technical input and solution development.
• Working on site when needed, including occasional out‑of‑hours work.
• Interpreting and validating standards, requirements and technical information, ensuring design inputs are complete and authorised.
• Applying correct design processes, maintaining configuration control, documenting decisions and completing robust self‑checks prior to verification.
• Identifying hazards, applying CDM principles and maintaining traceable records of risk mitigation.
• Managing scope changes and ensuring controlled design updates and issue processes.
• Reviewing and resolving comments from checking, installation/test logs or stakeholders, including root‑cause analysis where required.
• Closing out design packages, supporting lessons learned and applying feedback to improve future designs.
• Working collaboratively with colleagues, clients and suppliers, upholding IRSE obligations and professional ethical standards.

What You Will Bring to Us

• Incorporated or Chartered Engineer status (or working towards it).
• IRSE 1.1.510 Signalling Designer licence, or clear capability to obtain it.
• Strong signalling engineering experience at Senior Engineer level.
• Proven delivery and checking of signalling designs, drawings and calculations.
• Experience supervising junior engineers and coordinating workload.
• Experience as day‑to‑day engineering lead, including CRE exposure.
• Good knowledge of signalling standards, design processes and interlocking principles.
• Strong understanding of CDM, hazards and design‑risk management.
• Confident user of signalling tools and analytical software.
• Knowledge expected of an IRSE Designer (design conventions, document control, testing/installation context, cyber/security, change control).
• Commercial awareness and understanding of supplier capabilities.
• Strong communication, problem‑solving, planning and mentoring skills, with a collaborative approach.

What we can offer you:

At Amey, we recognise that our biggest asset is our people. That’s why when you join us, we offer flexibility, career development, a choice of benefits and support that help you through all life’s ups and downs. It’s the season why Investors in People put us among the top 1% of employers.

Career Development

Our dedicated progression framework identifies your career pathway and progress within the organisation, and with dedicated mentoring and support on hand to ensure you hit your career milestones. We strongly encourage the development towards a professional qualification with a recognised Institution and pride ourselves on mentoring our staff. To show our commitment to development of our staff we offer a comprehensive Chartership bonus.

Work-life Balance

Work-life balance and flexibility are key for our success. We empower our people to make choices that are right for them, with hybrid, part-time and flexible work patterns. And with a network of offices across the UK, we’re open to discussing working options that suit you.

Wellbeing

Health cash plan, 24 GP, support and assistance programmes, wellbeing ambassadors and Wellbeing Wednesday, dental vouchers

EDI

At Amey we celebrate our people and all that they are. This is reflected in our Affinity Group networks, providing a community of support and connection, a safe space to share experiences, learn from one another and generate ideas – Women @ Amey, Neurodiversity, Armed Forces, Multicultural Network, Pride, Diversability and Parents & Carers.

Social Value

You’ll get 2 Community Involvement Days each year to volunteer for a charity of your choice and further opportunities to support fundraising initiatives.

Plus, a range of other great perks and benefits including:

• Pension – Generous Pension scheme which we will contribute to
• Holidays - Minimum 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays
• Choices - Our flexible benefits scheme is tailored by you, including buying additional annual leave, cycle2work scheme, charity giving and gym membership
• Save with Amey - Our online voucher portal gives you access to thousands of discounts from leading retailers to help you save on shopping, days out, or nights in.

Your Career at Amey Consulting

At Amey Consulting, we value collective expertise, but also the spark one person can bring. As one of us, you can really be yourself, because your individuality is an asset.

You’ll be stretched but always supported. Well recognise your hard work and look after your well-being too. You’ll be empowered to play your part and achieve, encouraged to fulfil your own ambition as well as the shared one.

Application Guidance

Amey is committed to Inclusion and Diversity. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of their race, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview, if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

Please contact our recruitment team at peopleservices@amey.co.uk to discuss any access needs, reasonable adjustments or additional application support that may be required at any point during the recruitment process.

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