Project Engineer / Senior Project Engineer

About This Role

This role involves coordinating engineering packages and interfaces across complex railway projects, ensuring safe, compliant, and buildable solutions from design through commissioning. You will join a collaborative team of Project Engineers, Senior Project Engineers, and Engineering Managers, working with specialists from AtkinsRéalis and client organizations. The position offers varied project experience and opportunities to develop wider engineering-management capabilities and professional responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate defined engineering packages and interfaces through design, procurement, construction, installation, testing, and commissioning under the direction of an Engineering Manager
• Work across disciplines, recognizing dependencies and interface risks, and involving appropriate technical specialists and authorities
• Coordinate defined multidisciplinary engineering packages and interfaces across design and delivery, ensuring clear communication of technical information, decisions, dependencies, and changes
• Take responsibility for agreed engineering activities, deliverables, and interfaces, referring matters outside delegated authority to the Engineering Manager or relevant discipline authority
• Coordinate engineering documentation, requirements, deliverables, technical queries, and assurance evidence for assigned packages, maintaining traceability and highlighting gaps or overdue actions
• Plan and coordinate engineering interface meetings and interdisciplinary reviews, ensuring technical inputs, decisions, and actions are properly recorded and progressed
• Support package completion and handover by coordinating required design, construction, testing, commissioning, materials, compliance, asset, and Health and Safety File records
• Coordinate materials and equipment activities for assigned packages, including schedules, technical submissions, procurement interfaces, compliance evidence, and installation readiness
• Support engineering delivery through construction, installation, testing, and commissioning, coordinating responses to site issues and ensuring technical changes are properly assessed and recorded
• Work with discipline and delivery teams to resolve engineering issues within assigned packages, considering wider safety, compliance, constructability, interface, cost, and programme implications
• Challenge matters that may compromise safe or compliant delivery and escalate issues outside delegated authority or requiring formal technical acceptance
• Build effective working relationships across engineering, construction, suppliers, project management, and client teams, communicating technical matters clearly and ensuring agreed actions are understood and progressed
• Contribute to tenders by helping to define engineering scope, deliverables, interfaces, assumptions, risks, programme, resource requirements, and delivery approach for relevant packages