Project Engineering Manager
CompanyHitachi Rail
Location
Tottenham, England, United Kingdom
Employment TypeFull-time
Posted At4/22/2026
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£55,000
(£28.21 per hour)
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Description
Job Description:
Your New Role
As a Project Engineering Manager, you’ll take ownership of the engineering delivery across UK rolling stock bids and projects. You’ll provide technical leadership, assurance and governance, acting as the key engineering interface between customers, project teams and internal stakeholders.
This is a genuinely hands‑on leadership role, where your engineering judgement, systems approach and people skills will be just as important as your technical expertise. If you enjoy leading complex engineering delivery, thrive on stakeholder interaction, and want to influence how major rolling stock projects are delivered, this could be the perfect next move for you.
If you’re a Senior Project Engineer ready to step into a broader leadership role, or an experienced Project Engineering Manager looking for your next challenge, we’d love to hear from you.
What You’ll Be Doing
You’ll be trusted to lead, influence and drive successful outcomes by:
Your New Role
As a Project Engineering Manager, you’ll take ownership of the engineering delivery across UK rolling stock bids and projects. You’ll provide technical leadership, assurance and governance, acting as the key engineering interface between customers, project teams and internal stakeholders.
This is a genuinely hands‑on leadership role, where your engineering judgement, systems approach and people skills will be just as important as your technical expertise. If you enjoy leading complex engineering delivery, thrive on stakeholder interaction, and want to influence how major rolling stock projects are delivered, this could be the perfect next move for you.
If you’re a Senior Project Engineer ready to step into a broader leadership role, or an experienced Project Engineering Manager looking for your next challenge, we’d love to hear from you.
What You’ll Be Doing
You’ll be trusted to lead, influence and drive successful outcomes by:
- Acting as the primary engineering point of contact for customers and project stakeholders
- Providing technical leadership across multi‑disciplinary engineering teams
- Leading engineering governance activities, including design reviews and project phase transitions
- Owning and managing technical risk, ensuring mitigations are clearly identified and delivered
- Overseeing engineering budgets, schedules and resource planning alongside the Engineering Management Office.
- Supporting bids and tenders with strong, customer‑focused technical input
- Leading engineering delivery in line with systems engineering best practice
- Chairing Engineering Change Control Boards and ensuring robust configuration management
- Promoting a strong safety culture and ensuring compliance with rail standards and regulations
- Supporting projects through occasional UK and international travel
Essential
About You
We really value our people and offer a competitive reward and benefits package, including:
About You
- Experience delivering complex engineering projects, ideally within rolling stock or a regulated environment
- A strong systems engineering mindset
- Proven experience leading engineering teams or work packages
- Solid understanding of engineering governance, planning and budgets
- Knowledge of rolling stock standards
- Commercial or contractual awareness
- Experience working across international or multi‑cultural teams
- Communicates clearly and confidently
- Takes ownership and makes sound engineering decisions
- Isn’t afraid to challenge constructively when needed
- Enjoys developing and supporting others
- Degree in Engineering (Bachelor’s or Master’s level)
- Chartered Engineer or working towards chartership (or equivalent experience)
We really value our people and offer a competitive reward and benefits package, including:
- Competitive salary
- Annual performance‑related bonus opportunity
- 25 days’ holiday
- Pension scheme with up to 9% employer contribution
- Private medical insurance
- Personal accident insurance
- Group income protection
- Group life insurance
- Employee Assistance Programme