Job Title: Requirement Specialist
Work location: Cairo, Egypt
About DBEE: Deliver Egypt’s first High-Speed Rail service with DBEE. DBEE is a joint venture between DB International Operations and Elsewedy Electric. While DB International Operations brings extensive expertise in railway operations and maintenance worldwide, Elsewedy Electric contributes strong capabilities in energy and infrastructure solutions. Together, we combine global railway know-how with local excellence to enable efficient, safe, and sustainable passenger and freight mobility across Egypt’s first high-speed rail network. Join us in shaping this landmark project in Cairo.
The role:
We are looking for a motivated and detail-oriented Requirements Specialist to identify, capture, analyze, document, and manage operational and maintenance requirements throughout the railway project lifecycle. The role serves as a key interface between the client, operational stakeholders, maintenance teams, engineering disciplines, and project management to ensure the railway system is designed, delivered, and maintained in accordance with contractual, operational, safety, and regulatory requirements. Working closely with the Project Management, Operations, Technical, Procurement, and Finance teams, you will act as an important interface between the project team, the client, subcontractors, and other external stakeholders. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to a landmark railway project in Egypt within an international and multidisciplinary project environment.
Your responsibilities:
- Collect, review, and analyze contractual, operational, maintenance, safety, and regulatory requirements.
- Develop, maintain, and manage the project requirements database and requirements traceability matrix.
- Ensure all contractual requirements are clearly defined, documented, and allocated to the relevant project disciplines.
- Coordinate regularly with relevant departments to ensure requirements are correctly implemented.
- Monitor compliance with contractual, regulatory, and railway industry requirements.
- Manage requirement changes and assess their impact on scope, cost, schedule, and operational performance.
- Support verification and validation activities to demonstrate that all requirements have been fulfilled.
- Facilitate stakeholder workshops and reviews to clarify requirements and resolve gaps, inconsistencies, or conflicts.
- Prepare reports, presentations, and status updates on requirements management activities.
- Support asset handover, commissioning, and transition into operational service by ensuring operations and maintenance requirements have been adequately addressed.
Job qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Railway, Mechanical, Electrical, Civil, Systems, Industrial, or Transportation Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- A master’s degree in Railway Systems, Transportation Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related discipline is advantageous.
- Minimum of 5–7 years of relevant professional experience.
- Knowledge of railway operations and maintenance principles and asset lifecycle management.
- Familiarity with requirements management methodologies and tools such as DOORS, Jama, Polarion, or similar is an advantage.
- Strong analytical, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
- Understanding of systems engineering, configuration management, and verification and validation processes.
- Ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary and international project environments.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Word and Excel.
- Fluency in written and spoken Arabic and English is mandatory.