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Drees & Sommer

Global consulting for real estate and infrastructure

Team Leader Rail Construction Supervision Signaling and Safety Engineering

Engineering LeadershipConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeBerlin, GermanyNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • A successfully completed university degree in electrical engineering, communications engineering, transportation engineering, railway engineering, civil engineering, or a comparable qualification.
  • Completed functional training as a railway construction supervisor for signaling and safety technology (BÜB LST).
  • Extensive professional experience in construction supervision and execution for rail infrastructure projects, with a focus on signaling and safety technology.
  • Strong knowledge of relevant Deutsche Bahn regulations and applicable railway regulations, standards, and guidelines.
  • Demonstrated experience in functional and disciplinary leadership of employees.
  • Experience managing complex infrastructure projects and working with diverse project participants and stakeholders.
  • Ability to make decisions and assert direction while maintaining a cooperative and appreciative leadership style.
  • Strong communication, organizational, and accountability skills.
  • Proficiency with digital work and documentation systems.
  • Willingness to travel for projects within Germany.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of construction supervisors and develop team members.
  • Manage and coordinate all construction supervision services in signaling and safety technology within complex rail infrastructure projects.
  • Ensure proper construction execution in compliance with quality, cost, schedule, legal, technical, and railway-specific requirements.
  • Perform railway construction supervision duties in signaling and safety technology for complex projects and support project teams on technical questions.
  • Plan, manage, and optimize team resources and ensure cost-effective project delivery.
  • Coordinate with clients, infrastructure operators, planning offices, construction companies, inspection organizations, and authorities.
  • Monitor and assess construction processes, track possession periods, and commissioning concepts, and take appropriate action when deviations occur.
  • Ensure compliance with safety requirements and contribute to risk, change-claim, and quality management processes.
  • Support the acquisition of new projects, client relations, and preparation of proposals and scopes of work, and contribute to the strategic expansion of the rail infrastructure construction supervision practice.

About the Company

Drees & Sommer

Global consulting for real estate and infrastructure

Drees & Sommer delivers partner-managed, global consulting and implementation services for the real estate, infrastructure and industrial markets. Its teams provide sustainable, economically viable solutions tailored to each client’s needs, combining consulting with hands-on execution. Work flows through interdisciplinary groups led by Partners who are personally responsible for projects, guided by the “the blue way”—a holistic approach that balances economy, ecology and functionality and blends analytical rigor with creative thinking. The main differentiators are a partner-owned, intrapreneur-driven structure, a worldwide footprint (more than 6,500 people across 80 offices) and a commitment to uniting opposing concepts—tradition with the future, analog with digital, efficiency with well-being—into actionable outcomes. The goal is to help create a livable future by integrating sustainability, digitization and practical feasibility across projects.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Stuttgart, Germany
Founded
1970

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