Assistant Rail Engineering Manager

Job Description

We are searching for a Assistant Rail Engineering manager to join us here at AECOM to support the delivery of our Rail, Structures & Ground Engineering portfolio of works, inclusive of: 

•    Old Oak Common Rail Systems 
•    TfW portfolio including, Caerphilly, Swansea Metro, Drainage schemes
•    HRS12 OCS
•    Wixams Station
•    CP7 Flood Resilience 
•    CP7 E&P Framework (AMCO)
•    CP7 Drainage
•    SRSA Enhancements including Cowley (Oxford), Burns Stations
•    Limerick

Here's what you'll do: 

Our W&W Rail Engineering Management Team is based in our AECOM Swindon office and has an established record for successfully delivering Rail Projects.

The team meets regularly to share best practice and peer learning is encouraged to improve our personal and team performance.  Each team member has a development plan to provide a clear pathway to personal development and career progression.  The team provides technical leadership of projects throughout the infrastructure lifecycle from feasibility, preliminary and detailed stage designs. The projects we deliver range from stations to train maintenance and servicing depots and power supply upgrades. 

We also provide support for other parts of AECOM’s business on major multidisciplinary projects. Our clients are many and varied from both the private and public sector and include the major custodians of the UK’s rail network, numerous local authorities, and major Contractors. 

• Leads engineers from multiple disciplines to deliver integrated designs.
• Responsible for appointment of competent discipline lead engineers for technical delivery.
• Requires multi-disciplinary knowledge of rail engineering.
• Plans and develops engineering tasks concerned with unique problems. This involves exploration of subject area, definition of scope and selection of problems for investigation and development of novel concepts and approaches.
• Builds relationships with technical teams within the organisation and individuals inside and outside of the organisation.
• Responsible for acting independently on technical matters.
• Works under minimal supervision. Supervision received is administrative with assignments given in terms of broad general objectives and limits.
• May have responsibility for people management 

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Working towards Chartered or Incorporated Engineer CEng / IEng.  
• Recognised engineering qualification or preferably a degree in Engineering.
• Multi-disciplinary knowledge of rail engineering.
• Strong technical leadership of teams in the delivery of projects focused on delivering for the Client.
• Knowledge of system interfaces which impact on discipline design principles and demonstrable experience of the successful management of interfaces within projects.
• Completing quality control reviews of work developed by others.

Additional Information

We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at [email protected]

At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives. 

If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you

If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you!

At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [email protected]  if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.