Railway Interface & Integration Manager(RailSys)

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Date: 6 Oct 2026

Location: London various, TfL Corporate

Company: TfL, GLA or OPDC

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Key Information

 

Job title: Railway Interface & Integration Manager

Salary: Circa £57,900 + TFL Benefits  (Depending on skills, knowledge and experience)                         
Grade: Band 3

Contract type: TfL            Reference: 5732 

Team: Major Projects - Construction       Directorate: Chief Capital Officer

Contract details: Permanent      

Location: London Various locations - Endeavour Square and Palestra with hybrid working

Application closing date: Tuesday 20/10/2026 at 23:59 

 

All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory right‑to‑work checks.  Candidates must be able to demonstrate their right to work in the UK.  At the present time TfL is unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.   

 

*Hybrid working within this role enables a balance of 50 per cent of time split between the office and home over a 4-week period. Hybrid working arrangements can evolve subject to business requirements.   

 

Overview of project/role 

 

The Railway Interface and Integration Manager plays a pivotal role in ensuring the successful planning, coordination and delivery of railway access requirements across a diverse portfolio of capital projects and programmes. Acting as the key liaison between project teams, operational railway stakeholders and delivery partners, the role is responsible for translating project requirements into achievable access, possession and closure requests while ensuring alignment with operational constraints and programme objectives.

As the subject matter expert for railway access and integration, the postholder will provide specialist advice to project teams throughout the project lifecycle, helping to develop access strategies that maximise productive working time, optimise available possessions and minimise disruption to railway operations. The role requires strong stakeholder management skills, working closely with internal and external partners to coordinate complex access requirements, identify potential conflicts and support the safe and efficient delivery of works across the network.

Key Interfaces

  • Major Projects Directorate (MPD) project teams.
  • Rail Closure Planning and Timetable teams.
  • Crossrail and other major programme teams.
  • Construction Management teams.
  • Third-party contractors and suppliers.
  • Internal operational and engineering stakeholders.
  • External partners and industry stakeholders.

 

What You'll Be Doing

  • Coordinating railway access, possession and closure requirements across multiple projects and programmes.
  • Developing and submitting access requests that support efficient project delivery.
  • Providing expert railway interface and integration advice to project teams.
  • Identifying opportunities to maximise productive access time and optimise possession strategies.
  • Building collaborative relationships with operational, engineering and programme stakeholders.
  • Resolving access conflicts and supporting integrated planning across the project portfolio.
  • Ensuring railway access requirements are aligned with operational, safety and programme priorities.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced rail professional to influence the delivery of major infrastructure programmes by ensuring access to the railway is planned, coordinated and utilised effectively.

 

Please Note: While our team is composed by a variety of access experts on different rail modes, at this moment we are recruiting for a role mostly dedicated to deal and book Railsys (LU) access, being this an essential requirement on the successful candidate. For this reason, we will only interview people already with Closures and Possession experience.

 

Key Accountabilities  

  • Convert project/construction activities and high level plans into tangible access requirements.
  • Use own expert knowledge of access arrangements to establish the access requirements from signalling work plans.
  • Develop and deliver collaborative and innovative solutions to access and railway interface problems.
  • Effective stakeholder management and the ability to influence in decision making to secure required access.
  • Assessing access strategies, programme options and identifying additional access opportunities in order to propose a cost and time effective way forward.
  • Accountable for all securing access bookings related to weekend closures, track, depots, stations, trains and Network Rail.
  • Liaise with key departments such as Access, maintenance and London Underground Capital Delivery (LUCD) to co-ordinate work across the business to ensure that all works can co-exist whilst meeting project requirements.
  • Provide advice regarding access protection requirements in order to minimise cost whilst maintaining safety.
  • Manage project access to minimise the opportunity for successful compensation events and frustrated access claims.
  • Investigate and respond to frustrated access claims by the supplier as a result of dis-allowed access.
  • Represent Capital delivered works at possession planning meetings and associated access meetings to ensure that all requirements are considered.
  • Lead project access review sessions to co-ordinate all requests, advise on access and confirm project requirements to minimise unwanted Access.

 

Skills, Knowledge & Experience 

 

Skills

  • Ability to understand and interpret the Engineering publications such as engineering look ahead.
  • Ability to read works plans and translate them into access and logistics requirements.
  • Ability to interpret signal diagrams to advise on access requirements.
  • Effective stakeholder management and the ability to influence in decision making.
  • Excellent communications skills that allow clear requirements to be defined and coordinated into robust access plans.

Knowledge

  • A good working knowledge of London Undergrounds structure, operations and key priorities.
  • An expert knowledge of LU Access and protection arrangements.
  • Knowledge of LU RailSys access booking system.
  • Awareness of safety issues in an operational railway environment.
  • Awareness of the key aspects of coordination of access to the Railway and an appreciation of the impacts that may result from poor planning of works in this critical environment.
  • An understanding of basic installation and construction methods to be implemented in the requested access.
  • An awareness of risks associated with working on the railway and the means to reduce and mitigate these through access arrangements.

Experience

  • Experience in a railway management or project management environment.
  • Experience of using LU RailSys access booking system.
  • Experience of working collaboratively and influencing key stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated capability to provide expert knowledge when defining access requirements.
  • Extensive exposure to the definition of simple and complex access arrangements.
  • Demonstrated understanding of access factors that may impact the successful delivery of planned works.

 

Application Process 

  

  • Please apply using your CV and two-page cover letter.
  • Think carefully about the skills, knowledge and experience in the advert and cover this in your CV 
  • PDF format preferred and do not include any photographs or images 

  

Equality, diversity and inclusion 

 

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and aim to reflect the diverse communities we serve. We believe that a diverse workforce enables us to deliver better services and outcomes. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible. As a Disability Confident Leader, we actively encourage applications from disabled people. As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we aim to offer an assessment or interview to candidates who apply via the scheme where the minimum essential criteria for skills, knowledge and experience has been met. In some circumstances, it may not be practical to offer an interview or assessment to every candidate who applies through the scheme and meet the minimum essential criteria; in these situations, we select candidates who best meet the minimum criteria for the job rather than interviewing all who meet them. 

Across all recruitment activity, we recognise that selection methods may vary depending on the nature and scale of the campaign and will be applied fairly, consistently and proportionately in line with our Disability Confident commitments.   

 

We also use anonymising software that removes identifying information from CVs and cover letters to make the process fair. 

 

Vetting Process 

 

At Transport for London, safety, trust and fairness sit at the heart of how we recruit. Our Vetting Charter (https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/careers/our-vetting-process) explains the checks we carry out before you join us, helping ensure we create a safe, inclusive and reliable network for everyone who depends on our services. We simply ask that the information you provide is honest and accurate so we can progress your application smoothly. If something doesn’t match or can’t be verified, we may not be able to move forward with your application, but we’ll always treat you with transparency, respect, and clear communication throughout. 


Benefits  
In return for your commitment and expertise, you will enjoy excellent benefits and scope to grow.  Rewards vary according to the level of role but mostly include the below:
 
Final salary pension scheme 
Free travel for you on the TfL network 
Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home or 75% reimbursement on a 28-day flexi ticket
30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays 
TfL is committed to work-life balance, operating a hybrid working approach where business and role requirements allow
Private healthcare discounted scheme (optional) 
Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
Retail, health, leisure and travel offers 
Discounted Eurostar travel