Posted 12 June, 2026
Pway Engineer
Arcadis
Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Full Time
Reference: 143051002
Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role description:
As a Permanent Way Engineer, you will support the successful delivery of multidisciplinary rail infrastructure projects, contributing to the development, coordination and checking of permanent way solutions across a range of schemes. You will apply your knowledge of alignment and permanent way principles to help deliver safe, pragmatic and high-quality outcomes for clients.
Working within a dynamic multidisciplinary rail design environment, you will collaborate closely with project managers, technical specialists and client teams, supporting commissions that may include major stations, depot projects and other single- or multi-discipline rail schemes. The role offers the opportunity to broaden your experience across the project lifecycle, from feasibility and optioneering through detailed design and construction support, while developing your technical capability and progressing towards professional accreditation.
Role Accountabilities:
• Support the delivery of permanent way design tasks across multiple stages of the project lifecycle, including feasibility, optioneering, design development, detailed design and construction support.
• Contribute to the development of permanent way solutions, applying core engineering principles to produce robust and client-focused outcomes.
• Assist with the preparation, coordination and checking of drawings, calculations, reports and other technical deliverables, ensuring accuracy, quality and compliance with project requirements.
• Work collaboratively with other design disciplines to coordinate interfaces and support the integration of permanent way design with wider rail systems, civil, structural and project delivery requirements.
• Apply safe-by-design principles and support compliance with relevant health, safety and design risk management requirements, including CDM-related design considerations.
• Support the use of digital tools and common data environments in the development and management of project information, including Bentley permanent way applications and ProjectWise where applicable.
• Contribute to the planning and execution of assigned work, taking responsibility for the quality of your outputs and supporting the wider team in achieving delivery objectives.
• Liaise effectively with project teams, technical leaders and other stakeholders to communicate progress, surface issues and support timely resolution of design and delivery matters.
• Support continuous professional development through technical learning, mentoring and progression towards Incorporated or Chartered status with a relevant professional institution.
Qualifications & Experience
Essential:
• Degree in Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or another relevant engineering discipline.
• Experience working on rail or infrastructure projects within a design and engineering environment.
• Understanding of permanent way principles, including alignment design, plain line, S&C and gauging.
• Ability to produce reports and other engineering outputs to an acceptable standard of accuracy and presentation.
• Awareness of relevant railway standards applicable to permanent way engineering design.
• Ability to work effectively in dynamic multidisciplinary teams with a hands-on approach to technical project delivery.
• Commitment to professional development and progress towards Incorporated or Chartered status through a recognised institution such as the Permanent Way Institution, Institution of Mechanical Engineers or Institution of Civil Engineers.
Desirable:
• Experience of project delivery in 3D BIM environments and common data environments such as ProjectWise.
• Experience using Bentley permanent way design applications such as BRT or OpenRail.
• Some understanding of track componentry, installation techniques and construction-stage considerations.
• Exposure to design interfaces, staging, constructability or technical assurance activities on multidisciplinary rail schemes.
Why Arcadis?
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It's why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
You'll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you'll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.
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We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role description:
As a Permanent Way Engineer, you will support the successful delivery of multidisciplinary rail infrastructure projects, contributing to the development, coordination and checking of permanent way solutions across a range of schemes. You will apply your knowledge of alignment and permanent way principles to help deliver safe, pragmatic and high-quality outcomes for clients.
Working within a dynamic multidisciplinary rail design environment, you will collaborate closely with project managers, technical specialists and client teams, supporting commissions that may include major stations, depot projects and other single- or multi-discipline rail schemes. The role offers the opportunity to broaden your experience across the project lifecycle, from feasibility and optioneering through detailed design and construction support, while developing your technical capability and progressing towards professional accreditation.
Role Accountabilities:
• Support the delivery of permanent way design tasks across multiple stages of the project lifecycle, including feasibility, optioneering, design development, detailed design and construction support.
• Contribute to the development of permanent way solutions, applying core engineering principles to produce robust and client-focused outcomes.
• Assist with the preparation, coordination and checking of drawings, calculations, reports and other technical deliverables, ensuring accuracy, quality and compliance with project requirements.
• Work collaboratively with other design disciplines to coordinate interfaces and support the integration of permanent way design with wider rail systems, civil, structural and project delivery requirements.
• Apply safe-by-design principles and support compliance with relevant health, safety and design risk management requirements, including CDM-related design considerations.
• Support the use of digital tools and common data environments in the development and management of project information, including Bentley permanent way applications and ProjectWise where applicable.
• Contribute to the planning and execution of assigned work, taking responsibility for the quality of your outputs and supporting the wider team in achieving delivery objectives.
• Liaise effectively with project teams, technical leaders and other stakeholders to communicate progress, surface issues and support timely resolution of design and delivery matters.
• Support continuous professional development through technical learning, mentoring and progression towards Incorporated or Chartered status with a relevant professional institution.
Qualifications & Experience
Essential:
• Degree in Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or another relevant engineering discipline.
• Experience working on rail or infrastructure projects within a design and engineering environment.
• Understanding of permanent way principles, including alignment design, plain line, S&C and gauging.
• Ability to produce reports and other engineering outputs to an acceptable standard of accuracy and presentation.
• Awareness of relevant railway standards applicable to permanent way engineering design.
• Ability to work effectively in dynamic multidisciplinary teams with a hands-on approach to technical project delivery.
• Commitment to professional development and progress towards Incorporated or Chartered status through a recognised institution such as the Permanent Way Institution, Institution of Mechanical Engineers or Institution of Civil Engineers.
Desirable:
• Experience of project delivery in 3D BIM environments and common data environments such as ProjectWise.
• Experience using Bentley permanent way design applications such as BRT or OpenRail.
• Some understanding of track componentry, installation techniques and construction-stage considerations.
• Exposure to design interfaces, staging, constructability or technical assurance activities on multidisciplinary rail schemes.
Why Arcadis?
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It's why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
You'll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you'll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.
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#LI-HYBRID
