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Are you our leading expert and want to take a strategic approach to the contact line discipline and be part of driving innovation, standardization, and technology development in some of the country's most complex and socially important projects?

With us, it is possible! Here you get a unique opportunity to influence the direction of the industry, raise the technical level, and shape the next generation of specialists – while you continue to grow in a role where your experience truly makes a difference.

We want to grow and are looking for our next Sub Discipline Lead in contact line for our national railway operations!

As Sub Discipline Lead, you have overall responsibility for the development and direction of the discipline. The role involves ensuring the right competencies, effective working methods, and future-proof deliveries in our projects. You drive the development of standard solutions, internal processes, delivery models, and guidelines within the discipline and ensure that these are kept updated and well anchored in the organization.

The role includes developing and improving working methods, driving standardization and automation, and being a driving force in the development of new tools and methods. You actively work with environmental monitoring and collaboration internally, externally, and globally, and have the mandate to drive innovation and long-term development within your discipline. You ensure that the discipline follows best practices.

You contribute to quality assurance by reviewing projects from the bidding phase to delivery when necessary. The work also includes supporting colleagues and project teams within the discipline, both nationally and internationally, including acting as a mentor in more complex issues.

The role involves responsibility for collaborating with other Sub Discipline Leads and the Discipline Lead for Rail, as well as our international colleagues. You will also support line operations in recruitment and competency development issues.

In addition to working as Sub Discipline Lead, you will operate within projects based on your conditions and your expertise in contact line.

The position is based in one of our offices in Sweden.

We are looking for someone with a post-secondary engineering education in civil engineering and extensive experience in the railway industry with technical contact line work. You possess high knowledge of the existing contact line systems in Sweden. It is an advantage to have knowledge of contact line systems for both railways, subways, and trams.

We place great importance on personal qualities, and we prefer that you are driven, communicative, and confident in your professional role, as well as business-oriented in all situations. You have a burning interest in technology development and mentorship and dare to think outside the box. You should be experienced enough to work both in-depth within contact line and from a holistic perspective for the entire railway system.

Since our deliveries are primarily in Swedish, it is important that you have good knowledge of the language, and as we operate in a global organization, it is also crucial that you feel comfortable communicating in English.

If you have questions about the position, please feel free to contact us!

Tonny Gråberg, Discipline Lead Rail, [email protected] Vilde Semmelhofer, HR Recruitment, [email protected]

Selection is ongoing, but we would like to receive your application by March 27 at the latest. Welcome with your application!

WSP Rail is a national subsector within WSP consisting of approximately 200 employees represented throughout Sweden, globally we are over 7,000 within Rail & Transit. Within the Rail subsector, expertise is represented for all disciplines such as land, track, electrical power, contact line, signaling, telecommunications, channelization, traffic, capacity, and early stages. All employees, both nationally and internationally, connect their expertise by working on large multidisciplinary as well as smaller assignments.

In 2026, we are involved in assignments such as Hallsberg-Stenkumla, Norrbotniabanan, Mälarbanan, Maria-Helsingborg, Fyra Spår Uppsala, Malmbanan, Sävenäs, Laxå, and Ostlänken. We are involved in all stages of the railway process from early planning stages to inspection of completed facilities and advisory services in maintenance. WSP is a leader in the development of Railsys and ERTMS, where we have been involved in the rollout and development of ERTMS implementation in Sweden for several years, both in system handling, construction handling, development projects, and capacity studies.

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