High Speed Rail Infrastructure Maintenance Expert (Rail/ Metro)

In a world of possibilities, pursue one with endless opportunities. Imagine Next! At Parsons, you can imagine a career where you thrive, work with exceptional people, and be yourself. Guided by our leadership vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, we cultivate an innovative culture that empowers you to achieve your full potential. Unleash your talent and redefine what’s possible. Job Description: High Speed Rail Infrastructure Maintenance Expert (Rail/ Metro) Abu Dhabi, UAE Parsons is seeking an experienced High-Speed Rail Infrastructure Maintenance Expert to support the Etihad Rail High-Speed Rail project and provide senior technical leadership across the development, assurance, and delivery of the railway infrastructure maintenance strategy. The role will serve as the Infrastructure Maintenance Subject Matter Expert for the program, ensuring that maintainability, asset management, maintenance facilities, resources, systems, procedures, and readiness requirements are integrated from design through construction, testing and commissioning, trial operations, and revenue service. Focused on the future Abu Dhabi–Dubai passenger service, the successful candidate will help ensure that track, civil works, structures, stations, depots, power, signalling, telecommunications, and associated infrastructure can be safely, reliably, and efficiently maintained throughout the asset lifecycle. A strong background in high-speed railway infrastructure maintenance, asset management, RAMS, maintenance planning, and contractor assurance will be essential to success in this role. What You'll Be Doing - Act as the Subject Matter Expert for high-speed rail infrastructure maintenance throughout all project phases, from design and procurement through construction, testing and commissioning, trial operations, and revenue service. - Develop and assure the infrastructure maintenance strategy, maintenance concept, asset management framework, and lifecycle plans for track, civil works, structures, stations, depots, power, signalling, telecommunications, and associated systems. - Define maintenance philosophies, inspection regimes, preventive and predictive maintenance requirements, intervention standards, work instructions, and acceptance criteria consistent with high-speed rail operating conditions. - Establish and assure Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety (RAMS) targets, asset performance indicators, maintenance service levels, and whole-life cost objectives. - Review designs, specifications, technical submissions, and contractor deliverables for maintainability, accessibility, safety, standardization, spares, tooling, and lifecycle resilience. - Ensure infrastructure maintenance requirements are integrated with the operating concept, timetable, engineering access strategy, possessions planning, traffic management, and emergency arrangements. - Define requirements for maintenance depots, access points, inspection and maintenance vehicles, plant, tools, test equipment, warehousing, spare parts, and computerized maintenance management systems. - Support the development of asset registers, maintenance task analysis, failure mode analysis, maintenance schedules, resource plans, competency frameworks, and technical training requirements. - Provide infrastructure maintenance input to hazard identification, risk assessment, safety assurance, configuration management, and change control activities. - Lead reviews of maintenance-related testing, commissioning, asset handover, documentation, warranties, defects management, and readiness evidence before trial operations and revenue service. - Assess the maintenance organization, staffing levels, competencies, mobilization plans, procedures, and performance-management arrangements of the future infrastructure manager or maintenance contractor. - Support procurement of infrastructure maintenance services, including scope development, technical specifications, performance requirements, evaluation criteria, and tender clarification. - Coordinate with designers, contractors, systems suppliers, operators, maintainers, regulators, and client stakeholders to manage interfaces and resolve maintenance-related risks and issues. - Benchmark international high-speed rail maintenance practices and identify opportunities to apply condition monitoring, remote diagnostics, data analytics, automation, and other emerging technologies. - Develop and maintain effective client relationships, provide clear technical advice, and prepare concise reports, recommendations, and presentations for senior stakeholders. - Promote engineering excellence and compliance with Parsons’ quality, safety, and project management procedures. What Required Skills You'll Bring - Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university in civil engineering, railway engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or a closely related discipline. - Minimum 15 years of relevant railway i

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university in civil engineering, railway engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or a closely related discipline. Minimum 15 years of relevant railway experience.

Act as the Subject Matter Expert for high-speed rail infrastructure maintenance throughout all project phases, from design and procurement through construction, testing and commissioning, trial operations, and revenue service. Develop and assure the infrastructure maintenance strategy, maintenance concept, asset management framework, and lifecycle plans for track, civil works, structures, stations, depots, power, signalling, telecommunications, and associated systems. Define maintenance philosophies, inspection regimes, preventive and predictive maintenance requirements, intervention standards, work instructions, and acceptance criteria. Establish RAMS targets, asset performance indicators, maintenance service levels, and whole-life cost objectives. Review designs and contractor deliverables for maintainability, accessibility, safety, standardization, spares, tooling, and lifecycle resilience. Ensure requirements are integrated with operating concept, timetable, access strategy, possessions planning, traffic management, and emergency arrangements. Define requirements for maintenance depots, access points, inspection vehicles, plant, tools, test equipment, warehousing, spare parts, and CMMS. Support asset registers, maintenance task analysis, failure mode analysis, maintenance schedules, resource plans, and training requirements. Provide input to hazard identification, risk assessment, safety assurance, configuration management, and change control. Lead reviews of maintenance-related testing, commissioning, handover, warranties, defect management, and readiness before trial operations and revenue service. Assess maintenance organization, staffing, competencies, mobilization plans, procedures, and performance-management arrangements. Support procurement of maintenance services, including scope, technical specs, performance requirements, evaluation criteria, and tender clarification. Coordinate with designers, contractors, systems suppliers, operators, maintainers, regulators, and client stakeholders. Benchmark international practices and identify opportunities to apply condition monitoring, data analytics, and emerging technologies. Develop and maintain client relationships and prepare reports and presentations for senior stakeholders. Promote engineering excellence and compliance with quality, safety, and project management procedures.