Senior Signaling Engineer - Rail Systems
Posted date [2026-07-08]
(ID: 47748)
Job Description and Requirements
Senior Signaling Engineer - Rail SystemsJob Snapshot
Role: Senior Signaling Engineer - Rail Systems
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Industry: Transportation-Trucking-Railroad
Function: Systems
Experience: Minimum 12 years
Job Type: Full-time
Position Overview
Senior Signaling Engineer - Rail Systems in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a Transportation-Trucking-Railroad opportunity with Parsons Corporation for a Saudi National engineering professional experienced in CBTC signaling, ATC systems, metro rail integration, signaling design review, installation, testing, commissioning, operations, and contractor technical management. This role supports the delivery of advanced rail signaling systems by leading technical coordination, reviewing design submissions, managing interfaces, and ensuring signaling works meet project requirements, safety expectations, schedule targets, and performance objectives.
Job Details
Country: Saudi Arabia
City: Riyadh
Industry: Transportation-Trucking-Railroad
Function: Systems
Salary: 38000-55000
Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer.
Gender: Any
Candidate Nationality: Saudi National
Job Type: Full-time
Role
Context
The Senior Signaling Engineer - Rail Systems will provide technical leadership for CBTC signaling delivery on a major metro or rail infrastructure program in Riyadh. The role requires strong command of signaling design, railway systems integration, contractor oversight, project interfaces, testing, commissioning, and stakeholder coordination. Working with the client, regulatory authorities, design-build contractor, Programme Director, and multidisciplinary rail teams, the position helps ensure that the signaling system is safe, integrated, compliant, and ready for operational use.
Key Responsibilities
* Provide technical leadership and management oversight for the Design-Build Contractor’s CBTC signaling team.
* Ensure signaling system delivery aligns with project requirements, technical specifications, schedule targets, performance objectives, and safety expectations.
* Lead and support the rail signaling team while encouraging safety, collaboration, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.
* Coordinate with the client, regulatory authorities, contractors, consultants, and project stakeholders on signaling-related matters.
* Participate in design review meetings and assess compliance with signaling system specifications, design requirements, and project objectives.
* Review technical aspects of signaling systems, including Automatic Train Protection, Automatic Train Operation, Automatic Train Supervision, and Automatic Train Regulation.
* Manage signaling interfaces with other rail disciplines, railway subsystems, civil works, platform screen doors, operations, and systems integration teams.
* Monitor signaling design progress, equipment installation, implementation activities, testing, commissioning, and integration milestones.
* Support resolution of technical, operational, interface, and logistical issues related to signaling systems.
* Review contractor design submissions and provide clear recommendations to resolve design gaps, integration risks, and technical challenges.
* Prepare technical reports, evaluations, analyses, review comments, recommendations, and signaling progress updates.
* Monitor and report signaling progress against project schedules, budgets, specifications, contractual requirements, and performance criteria.
* Support the Programme Director with change management, variations, risks, opportunities, claims, counterclaims, and specification deviation reviews.
* Promote value engineering while protecting signaling safety, reliability, maintainability, operational performance, and system integrity.
* Coordinate signaling work with systems engineering, interface management, testing teams, operations teams, and construction delivery teams.
* Review signaling-related contractual correspondence and support contractor management activities where technical input is required.
* Track critical signaling issues and escalate matters requiring senior management, client, or regulatory attention.
* Contribute to readiness planning for installation, wayside works, trackside systems, testing, commissioning, and future operations.
Ideal Profile
* Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline.
* Saudi National candidate required.
* Minimum 12 years of experience on large-scale infrastructure, metro, railway, transportation, or civil projects with significant systems interface and integration responsibilities.
* Demonstrated experience in rail signaling design, installation, testing, commissioning, operations, and maintenance for commuter rail or metro systems.
* Strong knowledge of Communication-Based Train Control, Automatic Train Control, and trackside signaling systems.
* Technical understanding of Automatic Train Protection, Automatic Train Operation, Automatic Train Supervision, Automatic Train Regulation, and signaling interfaces.
* Experience managing signaling interfaces with platform screen doors, rail subsystems, operations teams, civil works, and multidisciplinary project packages.
* Strong knowledge of metro signaling standards, railway procedures, technical assurance, systems integration, and recognized engineering software packages.
* Experience in design consultancy environments, contractor management, contractual administration, technical correspondence, and design review processes.
* Proven leadership ability with strong stakeholder management, commercial awareness, technical coordination, and decision-making skills.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
* Ability to work effectively with multinational and multidisciplinary project teams.
* Rail industry-recognized qualifications such as IRSE Design Manager, Principles Designer, or Verifier certification are highly preferred.
* Knowledge of ERTMS and ETCS Level 2 systems, including wayside and trackside commissioning activities, is advantageous.
* Previous GCC project experience is preferred.
* Experience delivering signaling solutions for metro, railway, transit, or major transportation projects is highly valuable.
Skills Set
* Rail signaling
* CBTC
* ATC
* ATP
* ATO
* ATS
* ATR
* Trackside signaling
* Metro signaling
* Railway systems
* Signaling design review
* Signaling installation
* Testing and commissioning
* Systems integration
* Systems interfaces
* Platform screen doors
* Interface management
* Design-build contractor management
* Contractor oversight
* Technical reporting
* Design submissions
* Signaling specifications
* Technical assurance
* Railway operations
* Railway maintenance
* ERTMS
* ETCS Level 2
* Wayside commissioning
* Trackside commissioning
* IRSE Design Manager
* IRSE Principles Designer
* IRSE Verifier
* Contract administration
* Change management
* Risk management
* Value engineering
* Claims review
* Stakeholder coordination
* Multidisciplinary coordination
* English communication
* Riyadh rail jobs
* Saudi Arabia signaling engineer jobs
Why Join Us
This opportunity gives a Saudi National signaling engineer the chance to support advanced metro and railway systems delivery in Riyadh with Parsons Corporation. The role offers exposure to CBTC signaling, systems integration, design-build contractor management, technical interface resolution, commissioning readiness, and major transportation infrastructure development. It is a strong fit for an experienced rail systems professional who wants to lead signaling excellence and contribute to reliable, future-ready mobility infrastructure in Saudi Arabia.
About the Company
Parsons Corporation is a global engineering, infrastructure, transportation, and program management company supporting major metro, railway, mobility, urban development, and civil infrastructure programs. In Saudi Arabia, Parsons contributes to complex transportation projects through systems engineering, signaling coordination, design management, technical governance, construction oversight, and stakeholder integration. The company supports Riyadh’s infrastructure growth with international rail expertise, disciplined project delivery, and strong regional experience.
The Senior Signaling Engineer - Rail Systems will provide technical leadership for CBTC signaling delivery on a major metro or rail infrastructure program in Riyadh. The role requires strong command of signaling design, railway systems integration, contractor oversight, project interfaces, testing, commissioning, and stakeholder coordination. Working with the client, regulatory authorities, design-build contractor, Programme Director, and multidisciplinary rail teams, the position helps ensure that the signaling system is safe, integrated, compliant, and ready for operational use.
Key Responsibilities
* Provide technical leadership and management oversight for the Design-Build Contractor’s CBTC signaling team.
* Ensure signaling system delivery aligns with project requirements, technical specifications, schedule targets, performance objectives, and safety expectations.
* Lead and support the rail signaling team while encouraging safety, collaboration, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.
* Coordinate with the client, regulatory authorities, contractors, consultants, and project stakeholders on signaling-related matters.
* Participate in design review meetings and assess compliance with signaling system specifications, design requirements, and project objectives.
* Review technical aspects of signaling systems, including Automatic Train Protection, Automatic Train Operation, Automatic Train Supervision, and Automatic Train Regulation.
* Manage signaling interfaces with other rail disciplines, railway subsystems, civil works, platform screen doors, operations, and systems integration teams.
* Monitor signaling design progress, equipment installation, implementation activities, testing, commissioning, and integration milestones.
* Support resolution of technical, operational, interface, and logistical issues related to signaling systems.
* Review contractor design submissions and provide clear recommendations to resolve design gaps, integration risks, and technical challenges.
* Prepare technical reports, evaluations, analyses, review comments, recommendations, and signaling progress updates.
* Monitor and report signaling progress against project schedules, budgets, specifications, contractual requirements, and performance criteria.
* Support the Programme Director with change management, variations, risks, opportunities, claims, counterclaims, and specification deviation reviews.
* Promote value engineering while protecting signaling safety, reliability, maintainability, operational performance, and system integrity.
* Coordinate signaling work with systems engineering, interface management, testing teams, operations teams, and construction delivery teams.
* Review signaling-related contractual correspondence and support contractor management activities where technical input is required.
* Track critical signaling issues and escalate matters requiring senior management, client, or regulatory attention.
* Contribute to readiness planning for installation, wayside works, trackside systems, testing, commissioning, and future operations.
Ideal Profile
* Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline.
* Saudi National candidate required.
* Minimum 12 years of experience on large-scale infrastructure, metro, railway, transportation, or civil projects with significant systems interface and integration responsibilities.
* Demonstrated experience in rail signaling design, installation, testing, commissioning, operations, and maintenance for commuter rail or metro systems.
* Strong knowledge of Communication-Based Train Control, Automatic Train Control, and trackside signaling systems.
* Technical understanding of Automatic Train Protection, Automatic Train Operation, Automatic Train Supervision, Automatic Train Regulation, and signaling interfaces.
* Experience managing signaling interfaces with platform screen doors, rail subsystems, operations teams, civil works, and multidisciplinary project packages.
* Strong knowledge of metro signaling standards, railway procedures, technical assurance, systems integration, and recognized engineering software packages.
* Experience in design consultancy environments, contractor management, contractual administration, technical correspondence, and design review processes.
* Proven leadership ability with strong stakeholder management, commercial awareness, technical coordination, and decision-making skills.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
* Ability to work effectively with multinational and multidisciplinary project teams.
* Rail industry-recognized qualifications such as IRSE Design Manager, Principles Designer, or Verifier certification are highly preferred.
* Knowledge of ERTMS and ETCS Level 2 systems, including wayside and trackside commissioning activities, is advantageous.
* Previous GCC project experience is preferred.
* Experience delivering signaling solutions for metro, railway, transit, or major transportation projects is highly valuable.
Skills Set
* Rail signaling
* CBTC
* ATC
* ATP
* ATO
* ATS
* ATR
* Trackside signaling
* Metro signaling
* Railway systems
* Signaling design review
* Signaling installation
* Testing and commissioning
* Systems integration
* Systems interfaces
* Platform screen doors
* Interface management
* Design-build contractor management
* Contractor oversight
* Technical reporting
* Design submissions
* Signaling specifications
* Technical assurance
* Railway operations
* Railway maintenance
* ERTMS
* ETCS Level 2
* Wayside commissioning
* Trackside commissioning
* IRSE Design Manager
* IRSE Principles Designer
* IRSE Verifier
* Contract administration
* Change management
* Risk management
* Value engineering
* Claims review
* Stakeholder coordination
* Multidisciplinary coordination
* English communication
* Riyadh rail jobs
* Saudi Arabia signaling engineer jobs
Why Join Us
This opportunity gives a Saudi National signaling engineer the chance to support advanced metro and railway systems delivery in Riyadh with Parsons Corporation. The role offers exposure to CBTC signaling, systems integration, design-build contractor management, technical interface resolution, commissioning readiness, and major transportation infrastructure development. It is a strong fit for an experienced rail systems professional who wants to lead signaling excellence and contribute to reliable, future-ready mobility infrastructure in Saudi Arabia.
About the Company
Parsons Corporation is a global engineering, infrastructure, transportation, and program management company supporting major metro, railway, mobility, urban development, and civil infrastructure programs. In Saudi Arabia, Parsons contributes to complex transportation projects through systems engineering, signaling coordination, design management, technical governance, construction oversight, and stakeholder integration. The company supports Riyadh’s infrastructure growth with international rail expertise, disciplined project delivery, and strong regional experience.
