Project Engineering Manager / PDA

About the role

Hitachi Rail GTS Egypt is looking for a Project Engineering Manager (PDA) based in Cairo. The role carries technical authority for railway project engineering decisions and covers system design, interface management, safety assurance and commissioning.

Key responsibilities

• Accountable technical authority for railway project engineering decisions
• Ensure compliance with ENR standards, international standards and Hitachi Rail processes
• Contribute to system architecture and design baselines
• Manage interfaces across signalling, telecom, power and rolling stock, and with legacy railway infrastructure
• Support safety assurance, including hazard analysis and safety case development
• Act as technical interface with client and stakeholders, identify and mitigate technical risks and support engineering changes
• Manage site engineering, testing and commissioning, and collaborate in multidisciplinary engineering teams
• Deliver system design documentation, take part in design reviews (PDR, CDR, IDR), support safety and compliance documentation, prepare Interface Control Documents with the Interface Manager, maintain technical risk registers and contribute to ENR technical approvals

Required profile

• University degree in Electrical, Electronics, Systems or Railway Engineering
• 10+ years of experience designing and implementing railway signalling projects
• 5+ years leading multidisciplinary engineering teams
• Strong oral and written English; Spanish is a plus
• Experience delivering more than one railway signalling project, including system design, integration and acceptance
• Experience with complex safety-critical railway systems covering full software and hardware development life cycles

Required skills

• Railway signalling design and implementation
• System integration
• ETCS L1 exposure is a plus