Senior Project Manager

Required Experience Extensive project management and business management experience

Job Category Project Management

Posted 27 Sep 2026

Closing Date 31 Oct 2026

Your role of Senior Project Manager will be to lead the delivery of specified projects for Telecoms, Networks, SCADA and SISS for Mainline, Light Rail and Mass Transit railways within the Delivery Organisation. This will involve the management of all project Application Engineering, Installation, Testing and Commissioning activity and delivery of all systems designed to meet the needs of the contract, on time and within budget.

In addition, a key part of the role will be to lead the business unit mobilisation and alignment to the broader RI readiness in Ireland. Travel to client and supplier meetings will be required, with the intent to recruit locally.

You’ll make a difference by

• Providing safe delivery of the portfolio, to the ‘as sold’ specification meeting the specific project objectives within agreed timescales and budget delivering the maximum margin, whilst ensuring that the Business Management System is applied throughout the project lifecycle
• Being recognised as a Safety Leader in the Portfolio
• Ensuring that effective Safety and Environmental management of the projects has been implemented and is being maintained; ensuring that each of the project delivery functions has systems in place to cover its safety requirements. The SPM shall ensure that regular audits are undertaken to ensure that the systems are in use and are effective
• Developing and maintaining effective working relationships with the Client throughout specific project life cycles
• Monitoring progress against specific project programme and budget, identifying and mitigating diverse trends through effective corrective management action
• Ensuring the implementation of the Change Management Process and the approval of any changes to scope, base lined programmes and budgets is being maintained by project managers
• Seeking continuous improvement with all portfolio projects and proactively sponsor initiatives to improve the way in which the projects are delivered

What you’ll need to succeed

• Extensive project management and business management experience
• Management of high value capital investment projects involving a high degree of Client interface, within the Rail Signalling industry
• Delivery of project or portfolios through the full project life cycle
• Management and integration of multidisciplinary project teams
• Management of Project Control function covering Planning, Estimating, Financial Control and commercial management disciplines
• Management of company compliance with local Health and Safety statutory obligations
• Ability to maintain margin in a competitive customer environment
• Ability to anticipate problems and to take mitigating actions in advance of the problem being realised
• Financial Control:
  Experience of managing expenditure and control of budgets within a project environment

Original vacancy published by Siemens Mobility.

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