REC26 - Project Team Leader (Rail Crossing)

Istanbul North Rail Crossing Project (INRAIL)

Construction Supervision Consultant for Civil Works under Istanbul North Rail Crossing Project 

The Istanbul North Rail Crossing Project (“INRAIL” or “the Project”) is a flagship rail infrastructure investment located at the core of Türkiye’s railway network, where east–west and north–south freight and passenger flows converge.  the Project will construct a new 127-km, high-capacity, double-track, electrified, and fully signaled railway line that bypasses the Istanbul Metropolitan Area and provides an overland rail crossing of the Istanbul Strait (Bosphorus). 

The Project’s overall development objective, which this contract supports, is to: “increase the competitiveness and resilience of Türkiye’s cross-Bosphorus railway connectivity along its main national and intercontinental corridors”. By achieving this objective, the Project will enhance the sustainability and safety of the national transport system, and achieve a shift towards a safer, environmentally friendly transport system reflecting a more balanced modal split. 

Project Team Leader 

• Defining and supervising the activities of the project team
• Liaising with the Employer to provide key technical inputs, conduct quality assurance, ascertain consistency of results across individual tasks,
• Day-to-day single point of contact and party ultimately responsible to the Employer for the design related and construction supervision work.
• The Project Team Leader shall be a senior civil engineer holding a suitable graduate degree (MS or above) and have at least 20 years of general working experience.
• The Project Team Leader shall have minimum 7 years of international experience in a position involving the management of construction supervision services as Project Manager, Team Leader or equivalent position in the implementation of infrastructure projects implemented under FIDIC Conditions of Contract, preferably in railway sector.
• The Project Team Leader shall be fluent in written and spoken English.