AECOM is seeking a Construction Director to lead the delivery of major Rail project. The role involves overall leadership, contractual and commercial management, and ensuring delivery excellence in alignment with client and company objectives.
- Provide overall leadership and strategic direction for rail infrastructure enabling works, ensuring projects are delivered safely, efficiently, and in accordance with approved programmes and contractual requirements.
- Lead and manage enabling works associated with rail corridors, stations, depots, viaducts, bridges, tunnels, and associated infrastructure.
- Provide strong technical and construction expertise in the relocation, diversion, protection, and reinstatement of existing utilities and infrastructure services.
- Manage the identification, verification, and coordination of existing wet and dry utilities, including: Potable water networks Sewerage and drainage networks Stormwater systems TSE/irrigation networks District cooling networks Electrical HV/LV networks Telecommunications and ICT networks Gas networks Street lighting and traffic systems
- Direct the preparation and implementation of Utility Diversion and Relocation Strategies in coordination with authorities, utility providers, designers, contractors, and stakeholders.
- Review existing utility records, as-built drawings, GIS information, survey data, trial pits, GPR surveys, and site investigations to establish existing service conditions.
- Ensure proper utility detection, verification, protection, temporary diversion, permanent diversion, and decommissioning of existing services.
- Lead coordination with relevant authorities and stakeholders for NOCs, permits, approvals, shutdowns, tie-ins, and service diversions.
- Oversee the development of utility diversion drawings, method statements, temporary works, traffic management plans, and construction sequencing.
- Ensure utility relocations are coordinated with the rail alignment, formation levels, structures, stations, drainage, roads, and other permanent works.
- Identify potential utility clashes and interface risks at an early stage and implement mitigation measures.
- Manage interfaces between rail works, road infrastructure, utilities, existing assets, third-party developments, and authority requirements.
- Monitor project progress against approved baseline programmes, milestones, and key deliverables.
- Ensure timely completion of enabling works to facilitate subsequent rail civil, structural, MEP, systems, and station construction activities.
- Manage construction interfaces between utilities, earthworks, roads, drainage, temporary works, demolition, site clearance, and rail infrastructure.
- Ensure compliance with approved IFC drawings, specifications, authority requirements, project standards, and contract conditions.
- Lead coordination meetings with the Client, PMC/Consultant, Contractor, Utility Authorities, Designers, and Rail Systems teams.
- Monitor contractor performance and ensure adequate manpower, plant, materials, equipment, and specialist resources are available.
- Oversee excavation and construction activities around live and critical utility services, ensuring appropriate protection and permit-to-work controls.
- Manage temporary utility arrangements to maintain continuity of essential services during construction.
- Coordinate planned shutdowns, cutovers, temporary connections, and permanent tie-ins with relevant stakeholders.
- Ensure proper documentation and approval of utility abandonment, diversion, disconnection, and reinstatement works.
- Monitor quality of construction and ensure that all utility relocation works comply with approved materials, testing, inspection, and commissioning requirements.
- Ensure completion of testing, commissioning, pressure testing, CCTV inspection, electrical testing, functional testing, and authority acceptance as applicable.
- Review and manage variation orders, claims, additional works, and commercial implications arising from unforeseen utilities and infrastructure diversions.
- Coordinate with quantity surveying and commercial teams to control costs, variations, and change management.
- Ensure accurate progress measurement and reporting for enabling works.
Provide strategic leadership for the relocation, diversion, protection, and reinstatement of dry utility networks associated with rail infrastructure enabling works. - Manage relocation of HV, MV and LV electrical cables, including existing and proposed power networks.
- Oversee diversion and protection of telecommunication, fiber-optic, ICT, and data cables.
- Coordinate relocation of street lighting, traffic signals, ITS, CCTV, and associated ELV networks.
- Manage interfaces with DEWA/utility authorities, telecom operators, service providers, and other relevant stakeholders for cable diversion works.
- Review existing utility records, as-built drawings, cable routes, GIS data, survey information, and trial pit results to verify existing cable locations.
- Ensure proper cable detection, identification, trial trenching, excavation, protection, diversion, jointing, testing, and commissioning.
- Lead coordination for live cable crossings and interfaces with existing operational networks, ensuring minimum disruption to existing services.
- Oversee the preparation and approval of cable diversion drawings, route layouts, profiles, typical details, method statements, ITPs, and risk assessments.
- Ensure adequate temporary power and temporary communication arrangements are maintained during cable relocation activities.
- Coordinate planned shutdowns, isolation, switching, cutover, and energisation of electrical networks with the relevant authorities and utility providers.
- Ensure appropriate protection of existing cables through concrete encasement, duct banks, protective slabs, warning tapes, marker posts, cable tiles, and approved protection systems, where required.
- Manage the installation of new ducts, chambers, cable trenches, draw pits, manholes, joint bays, and associated infrastructure required for cable relocation.
- Coordinate cable pulling, jointing, termination, testing, and commissioning activities in accordance with approved specifications and authority requirements.