Senior Rail

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At Arup, our innovative spirit compels us to express our ingenuity in unique ways — engineering, planning, designing, and consulting on many of the most renowned projects in the built environment. We aim to deliver technical excellence, innovation, and value to clients, while maintaining our core mission of shaping a better world. The firm opened its first office over 70 years ago and now has over 18,000 members globally. Since its founding in 1946, members of Arup have developed transformative ways of working. Adapting to the ever-changing environment, our work is focused on ambitiously reimagining a sustainable and resilient future for cities. Arup is rising to these new challenges: by bringing together broad-minded individuals from a wide range of disciplines, investing in research, innovating and creating better solutions for clients and the wider world. Arup has been working in Colombia since 2007 and we established a presence in Bogotá in early 2014. The Colombian office is part of the Americas South Geography along with offices in Dallas, Houston and Austin, Texas.

We are the creative force at the heart of many of the world’s most prominent projects in the built environment, including the Sydney Opera House, the London Eye, and the Beijing National Stadium (aka the Bird's Nest). Projects in the Americas include Fulton Street Transit Center in NYC, USA, California High-Speed Rail, USA, the Las Vegas Observation Wheel, USA, and currently in Colombia, the Atrio Towers, Barranquilla public spaces Master Plan, Medellin AV 80 Light Rail Systems, Prefeasibility of Public Transport Systems, Fleet buses electrification in 3 Colombian cities, Bogota Metro Land Value Capture Study and 14 Lender Technical Advisor role for 4G highway projects.

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**You Will Be Responsible For**
- Leading a variety of planning, development and transportation infrastructure projects including Multimodal Transportation Plans and Master Plans, pre-feasibility and feasibility studies Transportation & Land Use Studies, Transit Planning & Operations Analysis.
- Serving as Project Manager and/or Deputy Project Manager for the day-to-day client liaison for specific projects while achieving positive commercial results.
- Leading proposals, outputs, and presentations to public and private sector clients.
- Coordinating diverse tasks in small, medium and large, complex, long-term projects - working with many different people/facilities/resources etc. within time and budget.
- Contributing and leading business development activities while building and extending a network of clients.
- Working in partnership with other teams supporting large infrastructure projects where transport is a needed component.
- Contributing to building a dynamic, responsible, and innovative transport and rail team and supporting the development of junior staff.
- Executing responsibilities as outlined in the firm’s Quality Management System.

**Requirements**:

- Bachelor's degree in civil engineering, or closely related discipline.
- Master’s degree in Transportation Planning, Transport Engineering, or closely related discipline (a must).
- Minimum of 10 years of professional experience and a minimum of 6 years as a transport/rail engineer/ planner and/or transport infrastructure engineer/specialist
- Experience in deal-project structuring of public transport systems (rail, bus or BRT) and in transport master planning projects; rail project experience is a plus.
- Experience with transport/infrastructure related technical analysis/capabilities including traffic capacity analysis, demand forecasting and economic appraisal.
- Knowledge of regional and international transport planning and socioeconomic best-practices.
- Advanced level written, verbal, presentation and communication skills with colleagues and clients of all levels in English and Spanish is essential.

**Professional profile/traits**
- Strong teamwork capabilities, outstanding sense of responsibility, achievement, and autonomy.
- Excellent project planning and management skills required for our fast-paced environment.
- Self-starter and ability to work in a fast-paced environment and contribute to different teams and disciplines, and a diverse range of activities, including administrative ones, business development, client relationships and technical development of projects.
- Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills essential for team-based working and clients of all levels.
- Excellent level of written verbal and presentation skills both in Spanish and English.
- Solid analytical and quantitative skills, as well as good skills in transport economics.
- Good command of software tools micro/macro simulation, data analysis, and GIS. Experience/knowledge of BIM will be a plus.

**Key Competences**
As a senior consultant, you would demonstrate a growing competence