Design Manager - Rail

Job Description

Overview

Egis is seeking an experienced Design Manager - Rail to lead and manage a defined package (geographical scope) within the MetroLink Dublin project.

Acting as the technical and managerial authority for your package, you will have full accountability for integrating all engineering disciplines, ensuring compliance with Discipline Lead prescriptions, and delivering within agreed cost and schedule targets.

Key Responsibilities

Package Leadership & Scope Management

• Act as the Package Manager for your assigned geographical package, with full accountability for planning, coordination, governance, and timely delivery of all design inputs within your scope.
• Establish and manage the package delivery plan, including scope definition, discipline responsibilities, approvals, programme milestones, and interfaces.
• Ensure full compliance with client requirements, ITT documentation, Discipline Lead prescriptions, and Irish statutory and regulatory obligations.
• Monitor and control package scope to prevent creep, manage changes formally, and maintain cost and schedule discipline.

Innovation & Sustainability

Embed sustainability, decarbonisation, digital engineering, and innovation into the tender solution. Promote whole-life performance, resilience, and operational efficiency aligned with MetroLink objectives.

Quality Assurance & Design Reviews

Implement and enforce Egis' quality management and assurance processes throughout your package. Maintain design quality registers for your package and capture lessons learned. Prepare for and participate in package-level design reviews conducted by the Project Director and/or Discipline Leads.

Programme, Commercial & Risk Management

Lead your package delivery programme, ensuring all milestones and deliverables are met on time and to required quality standard. Oversee resource planning, fee management, and cost control for your package. Report monthly to the Project Director on actuals vs forecast. Lead identification, assessment, and mitigation of technical, programme, and delivery risks specific to your package. Actively manage dependency risks and inter-package coordination issues that could impact your schedule or cost. Escalate to the Project Director if they arise. Support value engineering and whole-life cost optimisation initiatives within your scope.

Technical Authority & Quality

Provide senior technical leadership for all design outputs within your package. Act as final technical authority for your package submissions, ensuring clarity, robustness, compliance with Discipline Lead prescriptions, and alignment with project objectives. Champion technical excellence within your scope while balancing performance with cost and programme constraints. Ensure all technical outputs are appropriately reviewed, verified, and approved prior to submission.

Discipline Integration & Coordination Within Your Package

Integrate and coordinate all engineering disciplines (Civil, MEP, Systems, Architecture, Specialists) within your package scope. Establish and chair regular design coordination meetings within your package. Review progress, identify conflicts, and drive coordinated solutions. Create and maintain Interface Control Documents (ICDs) for all discipline interfaces within your package (e.g., Systems-Civil, MEP-Architecture). Resolve technical conflicts between disciplines within your package. If unresolvable, escalate to the Project Director with context and recommendation. Ensure all design outputs reflect coordinated, multi-disciplinary solutions that are technically sound and compliant with Discipline Lead prescriptions.

Compliance with Discipline Lead Prescriptions

Receive and internalise all prescriptions, standards, and specifications established by Discipline Leads (Systems, MEP, Civil, Architecture, Sustainability, etc.). Ensure every design output within your package is compliant with Discipline Lead prescriptions. Adapt them intelligently to your package's context, but do not deviate without explicit Project Director approval. If a Discipline Lead requirement is unclear or cannot be met within your package context, escalate immediately to the Project Director for clarification or exception approval. Maintain traceability: document how each design decision in your package traces back to Discipline Lead prescriptions or justified exceptions.

Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, or a related technical discipline.
• Postgraduate qualification in Engineering, Business, Project Management, or similar is desirable.
• Chartered Engineer or equivalent professional status preferred.
• Project management certification (e.g. PMP, PRINCE2) advantageous.

Experience

• Proven experience as Package Manager, Design Manager, or Senior Design Engineer on major rail or metro infrastructure projects.
• Strong background in coordinating and integrating multiple engineering disciplines within a defined scope.
• Demonstrated leadership of design delivery for large Design & Build or PPP projects.
• Experience with complex buried metro infrastructure, including stations, tunnels, and underground facilities.
• Solid understanding of MEP systems, civil engineering, and specialist systems integration.
• Experience working in matrix organisations.
• Familiarity with Irish or UK rail/building standards is highly desirable.

Key Competencies

• Strong technical leadership and authority in a multi-disciplinary environment.
• Excellent coordination, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Commercial awareness: ability to balance quality, cost, and programme within your package scope.
• Delivery-focused with ability to drive excellence and accountability.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making capability in complex technical environments.
• Ability to work collaboratively within a matrix structure; respectful of Discipline Lead expertise while maintaining package ownership.

Additional Information

What We Offer

• A collaborative, inclusive, and forward-thinking working environment.
• Support from internal technical experts across all disciplines
• A wide portfolio of complex and interesting projects
• Opportunities for progression into a senior management role.
• Ongoing support for professional development and CPD.
• Flexible working arrangements and a strong focus on work-life balance.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.

We are committed to our planet

In each project we design, engineer and operate we care deeply about the legacy we’re leaving behind. As part of our team, you’ll have a unique opportunity to use your skills and expertise to shape a better future for our communities in the UK, and all around the globe.

Our commitment is translated in the work carried out by our Egis Foundation, which funds concrete actions to address the climate crisis and is focused on educational and social initiatives that will help in the responsible and sustainable shift towards a sustainable world.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

We are an Equal Opportunities employer, and we strive to build a workforce that truly reflects the communities we represent. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and any other protected characteristic. If you decide to apply for an opportunity with us, your application will be assessed based purely on your experience, the essential and desirable criteria, and your suitability for the role. We value each and every one’s contribution as this builds our culture and means that if you work with us, you will be included, listened to, and respected.