Programme Director (Transportation)
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Our Transportation business brings together expertise in rail, highways, and local transport into a multidisciplinary team delivering innovative and sustainable mobility solutions.
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Our
Transportation business
brings together expertise in
rail, highways, and local transport
into a multidisciplinary team delivering innovative and sustainable mobility solutions.
Within Rail, our Systems & Infrastructure capability provides leading expertise across signaling, telecommunications, control systems, and integrated operations.
We combine technical excellence with a human-centered approach, ensuring that railway systems are designed for performance, reliability, safety, and long-term operability.
Overview
AtkinsRéalis is seeking an experienced Programme Director to provide executive leadership, governance oversight, and strategic delivery management across a large-scale rail infrastructure and systems programme. The role will lead multidisciplinary engineering, construction, commercial, systems integration, and operational teams through planning, delivery, testing, commissioning, stakeholder coordination, and operational readiness activities in alignment with programme objectives, quality requirements, and regulatory obligations.
Your role
- Lead overall programme governance, delivery strategy, and executive-level decision-making across all workstreams.
- Direct multidisciplinary engineering, construction, commercial, systems integration, and operational teams to ensure programme objectives are achieved.
- Establish programme management frameworks, reporting systems, and assurance processes aligned with industry best practice.
- Manage strategic stakeholder engagement with client representatives, government authorities, contractors, operators, and third parties.
- Oversee programme-wide risk, change control, schedule recovery, and commercial performance management.
- Ensure testing, commissioning, handover, and operational readiness activities are integrated into programme delivery.
- Drive compliance with safety, quality, environmental, and regulatory obligations throughout programme execution.
- Mentor senior leadership teams and promote a high-performance delivery culture focused on accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
About You
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or related discipline; Master's degree preferred.
- Minimum 20 years' professional experience with at least 12 years in senior programme or project director roles.
- Extensive experience on major rail, infrastructure, transportation, or industrial programmes.
- Strong understanding of programme controls, systems integration, interface management, and operational readiness.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams within complex stakeholder environments.
- Strong commercial, contractual, and risk management capability.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and executive reporting skills.
- Professional membership or chartership preferred (PMP, APM, PE, CEng, or equivalent).
- Rewards & benefits
- Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career.
This Includes
- Tax-free salary.
- Life insurance coverage.
- Medical insurance.
- Annual leave balance.
- Company gratuity scheme.
- Discretionary bonus program.
- Annual flight contribution.
- Transportation & housing allowances.
- Employee Wellbeing Program: 24/7 access to specialists in finance, legal matters, family care, personal health, fitness, and nutrition.
- Seize every opportunity to sharpen your skills, expand your expertise, and be recognized for the impact you make.
About AtkinsRéalis
We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization.
We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's'infrastructure and energy systems.
Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world.
We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.
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