Doğuş Construction has opened recruitment for the first lot of the planned Gara de Nord–Gara Progresul extension of Bucharest’s M4 metro line. The Turkish company is part of the consortium that won the contract for the Gara de Nord–Eroii Revoluției section, where the initial phase is design. The wider project is described as a public investment valued at €3.43 billion including VAT.
Recruitment begins for technical and delivery roles
Doğuş Construction’s human resources director, Mehmet Fatih Karakuş, said the company is seeking qualified and experienced professionals for the Bucharest metro project. The advertised roles cover technical office engineering, measurement and estimating, cost control, planning, contracts, design coordination, traffic management and HSE supervision. The employer says Romanian citizens and candidates already living in Romania will be given priority. The stated location is Bucharest, and candidates have been invited to submit their CVs to the email address published in the recruitment notice. The hiring activity gives an early indication of the specialist functions being assembled for delivery of the first construction lot.
The contract is organised around a defined project lot
The contract for lot 1, Gara de Nord–Eroii Revoluției, was won by a Turkish-Bulgarian association made up of Doğuş, GP Group JSC and Trace Group. In this structure, the metro extension is divided into sections, with lot 1 covering the first section named in the project announcement rather than the entire route. Daniel Băluță, mayor of Sector 4, previously announced that the order to start works had been signed and explained that the first phase would begin with design for lot 1. For businesses, the procurement feature to note is the use of a consortium to combine delivery capacity, while the lot structure creates a defined scope for design and subsequent project coordination.
The wider extension includes 13 new stations
The planned route from Gara de Nord 2 to Gara Progresul has 11.94 kilometres of newly built alignment. Of that total, 10.84 kilometres are intended for passenger operation and 1.1 kilometres for operation without passengers as a connection to the Progresul depot. The scheme also includes one above-ground depot at Progresul, the existing Gara de Nord 2 station and 13 new metro stations: Știrbei Vodă, Bogdan Petriceicu Hașdeu, Uranus, George Rozorea, Chirigiu, Filaret, Eroii Revoluției 2, George Bacovia, Toporași, Nicolae Cajal, Luică, Giurgiului and Progresul. The scale explains why the first lot requires expertise spanning design, cost, contracts, traffic and safety.
Funding combines public and European sources
The total investment is stated as €3.43 billion including VAT. Financing is to come from non-repayable European funds, the state budget and other legally constituted sources of finance. The source describes the metro extension as the largest public investment currently being carried out at local level in Romania. The available information does not set out the tender timetable, contract value for lot 1 alone, delivery schedule or the number of vacancies. It does, however, connect recruitment with the project’s mobilisation after the start order and shows that the consortium is building the professional functions needed for a complex urban transport scheme.
| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Project | Gara de Nord–Gara Progresul M4 extension |
| Recruiting company | Doğuş Construction |
| First lot | Gara de Nord–Eroii Revoluției |
| Consortium | Doğuş – GP Group JSC – Trace Group |
| New alignment | 11.94 km |
| New stations | 13 |
| Total investment | €3.43 billion including VAT |
The first phase will begin with design for lot 1, the section between Gara de Nord and Eroii Revoluției.
WHY IT MATTERS
A large infrastructure contract can be divided into defined lots and delivered by a consortium, with design and mobilisation beginning before the full route is built. Here, recruitment shows the range of specialist functions being assembled for the first lot, from quantity surveying and cost control to contracts, traffic management and HSE.
Reported from economica.net, 2026-11-11. The Tender Wire is published by Otnox.
