Location: Algeria
Start date: Immediate
Sector: Infrastructure & Construction
Who Are We?
Founded in 2012, ProjecTTech is a premier consulting and engineering firm specializing in complex project management and tailored technical expertise. We deliver innovative solutions and operational support throughout every stage of the project lifecycle, driving maximum efficiency and sustainable growth for our clients.
Context
An experienced Technical Expert — Permanent Way, Signalling & Telecommunications is required to provide independent technical expertise and design review support for major railway infrastructure activities in Algeria.
As a Key International Expert, the successful candidate will be based full-time in Algiers, with responsibility for reviewing permanent way, signalling, train control, and telecommunications solutions throughout the design process.
Main Responsibilities
- Design Gate Reviews: Conduct independent technical reviews of deliverables at concept, preliminary, and detailed design stages, covering alignment, earthworks, track form, signalling, and telecommunications.
- Signalling & Control Specifications: Review signalling and train control specifications to ensure they are performance-based, open to competition, and appropriately address interoperability requirements and migration from legacy systems.
- Permanent Way Review: Assess permanent way design solutions and their interfaces with alignment, earthworks, signalling, telecommunications, and associated infrastructure.
- Cost Benchmarking & Quality Assurance: Review quantity take-offs, unit rates, price escalation assumptions, and contingencies against relevant international benchmarks.
- Field Verifications: Undertake regular site inspections along the alignment to assess constructability, ground conditions, utility crossings, and access routes.
- Technical Interfaces: Identify and assess key interfaces between track infrastructure, signalling, train control, and telecommunications systems.
- Technical Recommendations: Document review findings, identify technical risks and non-conformities, and provide clear recommendations to support informed decision-making.
Technical Skills
- Strong expertise in railway permanent way, signalling, train control, and telecommunications systems.
- In-depth understanding of railway alignment, earthworks, track forms, and associated technical interfaces.
- Proven knowledge of interlocking architectures and train protection systems.
- Strong capability in client-side or lender-side multidisciplinary design reviews.
- Ability to assess signalling specifications, interoperability requirements, and migration from legacy systems.
- Experience in technical quality assurance, cost benchmarking, quantity review, and constructability assessment.
- Ability to identify technical and interface risks across complex railway infrastructure packages.
Candidate Profile
- Chartered Engineer in Civil, Railway, or Electrical Engineering, or an equivalent recognized professional qualification.
- Minimum 12 years of railway infrastructure experience.
- Demonstrable technical depth in both permanent way and signalling/train control.
- Proven experience in client-side or lender-side design review.
- Demonstrated experience with interlocking architectures and train protection systems.
- Experience conducting technical reviews across concept, preliminary, and detailed design stages.
- Fluent French and working proficiency in English are required.
Soft Skills
- Strong analytical and technical judgement.
- Excellent problem-solving and decision-support capabilities.
- Clear and effective technical communication skills.
- Strong attention to detail and quality.
- Ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary and multicultural teams.
- High level of autonomy, rigor, integrity, and accountability.