Project Engineer Rail Signalling

Job Title:                     Project Engineer - Rail Signalling

Location:                     Belfast, Northern Ireland + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:           Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF77326

Shape the future of rail infrastructure and deliver projects that keep communities connected.

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Project Engineer Rail Signalling at Belfast, County Antrim.

This is an opportunity to take a leading role in the delivery of vital rail signalling projects, helping to enhance the safety, reliability and performance of the rail network while advancing your career within a globally recognised engineering organisation.

The role

As a Project Engineer Rail Signalling, you will lead the engineering delivery of rail signalling projects, ensuring safe, compliant and effective project execution from planning through to completion. Working across complex rail infrastructure programmes, you'll provide technical leadership, manage engineering risks and collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders to achieve successful project outcomes. Your expertise will directly contribute to safe and efficient railway operations while offering significant opportunities for professional growth and career development.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Managing and coordinating signalling engineering activities across rail infrastructure projects.
• Ensuring signalling construction activities comply with technical standards, legislation and contractual requirements.
• Managing subcontractors, stakeholders and interfaces with other engineering disciplines.
• Preparing and reviewing work package plans, task briefings, risk assessments and engineering documentation.
• Monitoring project progress, programme delivery, costs and engineering risks to support successful project outcomes.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days in the office and days working from home.

Essential experience of the Project Engineer - Rail Signalling

• Experience delivering rail signalling projects within the rail industry.
• Experience managing technical and engineering activities throughout the project lifecycle.
• Experience working with clients, contractors and multidisciplinary project teams. ]
• Experience managing project risks, programme delivery and cost performance.
• Experience producing engineering documentation, risk assessments and work package plans.

Qualifications for the Project Engineer - Rail Signalling

• Chartered Engineer status.
• Degree qualification in an Engineering discipline.
• In-depth knowledge of railway infrastructure, construction and contracting environments.
• Strong understanding of utilities and multidisciplinary rail projects.

What we offer 

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• A dynamic working environment

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident, committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [email removed] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 26/11/2026