Civils Engineering Manager / Lead Project Engineer is required to work within the Client Organisation responsible for the multi-billion-pound High-Speed Rail project in the UK based from Birmingham – working on a Multi-Billion Main works civils contract which has 5 years left on the programme.

Working for the client organisation HS2 reporting to the Head of Engineering for the project you will be working on the largest single contract on HS2 – the BBV (Balfour Beatty, Vinci plc) Main Works Civils Area North, £6bn - 90km line of route consists of 42 Viaducts, 66 bridges, 35 cuttings, 56 culverts, 66 embankments & 4 motor crossings.

Reporting to the Head of Engineering on the project, the Lead Project Engineer is responsible to execute legal and contractual technical duties on project engineering issues within the Integrated Project Team (IPT), leading risk-based assurance of asset design and construction, assuring that it is in accordance with HS2’s technical requirements, standards and policies including CDM, in a timely and cost-efficient manner.

High Speed 2 are looking for an experienced delivery focused Engineering Manager, Senior / Lead Project Engineer, Design Manager with major infrastructure experience.  You’ll be a qualified Civil Engineer ideally chartered with major project experience – highways, bridges, stations, tunnels, ,major infrastructure. The contract is in construction (Delivery) phase and will involve ensuring and assuring the design & construction meets the requirements, quality, CDM, solving technical problems, through to commissioning & handover.  Commercial acumen is also required managing the change on the project (NEC3),

The Civil Engineering Main Works contract has 5 years left (50% completed) of which 1 year left of detailed design and then delivery of the assets into handover.  After which you can move to Stations or one of the 14 Rail System contracts – 10 years left on programme. Huge opportunities for future progression and development.

Key challenges include:

• Managing such a huge programme with 280 assets (where 1 asset could be 2 mile viaduct) , this is relentlessly challenging project with consents to agree, interfaces to manage (network rail / National highways) -
• Managing time pressure is a key task -on such a major project & challenging programme there is always a blockage or major works planned that need your input to go ahead, effectively managing this is crucial.

Working Relationship – Co-located & Hybrid

The client team are working alongside the main contractor (Co-located) in the same Birmingham site offices as well as some work in the main HS2 Birmingham Snowhill office,

Role is site office based from HS2 Birmingham Snowhill offices and Fort Dunlop BBV main site site offices coupled with Hybrid working – expectation is to work 2 days a week from the office and the rest of the time at home. 

Senior Project Engineer,            £75 – 81,780 + Pen (6:12) + health + 25 Hol (potentially £85,869)

Duties and responsibilities 

• To lead the risk based engineering technical assurance within the IPT, as per the HS2 assurance requirements, through engineering review, checking and submission of assurance evidence for technical stage gates;
• To assure that the design and construction of assets comply with the technical and sponsor requirements and applicable standards, specifications and procedures by supporting planned Technical Assurance Reviews and “spot-checks” of Contractor’s deliverables;
• To discharge the duties of NEC3 Supervisor and Principal Designer (CDM Regulations 2015) Representative as directed by Head of Engineering and Environment.
• To support Head of Engineering and Environment with internal and external reporting and risk identification and mitigation of engineering matters;
• To represent the Head of Engineering and Environment as requested in matters relating to CDM Principal Designer, NEC3 Supervisor or any other technical duty.
• Manage and communicate HS2 Engineering requirements to the IPT contractor;
• Provide guidance on design solutions for the asset, promoting use of best practice and innovative engineering techniques, technologies and processes, driving consistency and identifying opportunities for efficiencies within the IPT
• Work alongside Heads of Commercial and Project Clients to determine the impact of trends, progress and change with respect to cost and schedule.
• Work alongside other technical specialists, engineers and environmentalists to identify and develop appropriate and cost balanced mitigation strategies and solutions, contributing to successful system integration between station, railway systems and other delivery contracts
• To assure the technical coordination and integration of the supply contracts with other neighboring contracts, station contracts, railway systems contracts and others.
• To be the discipline engineer in technical areas for which they have the recognised technical competence.
• Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures in EDI.

Candidate Criteria

Looking for a Delivery Focused Engineering Manager, Senior / Lead Project Engineer, Design Manager with major civil engineering infrastructure experience.  Will have worked on major civil project such as – Highways, Rail, Crossrail, Airports, East West Rail, New Nuclear, Thames tideway – large scale civil engineering infrastructure projects

The contract is in construction (Delivery) phase and will involve ensuring and assuring the detailed design & construction meets the requirements, quality, CDM, solving technical problems, through to commissioning & handover.  Commercial acumen is also required managing the change on the project (NEC3).

Must have strong stakeholder engagement skills ability to work in a collaborative co-located project team whilst navigating a complex matrix environment.  Open to client, consultancy or Main Contractor background – client more preferable but a mix would be ideal & would have worked for an organisation who was the Principal Designer (CDM).

Skills: 

• Problem solving – Able to identify complex problems and review related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. This includes the management and planning of multiple workstreams and the competing demands of stakeholders
• Decision Making – Able to gather and synthesise information, identifying options and applying sound judgement based on logic and reason, making use of a variety of analytical approaches to provide relevant information to suppliers, stakeholders and decision makers using key facts and data
• Technical Leadership - Specialist technical support and leadership on most discipline-specific scientific, technical and engineering principles but, knowing when to seek further guidance from Subject Matter Expert or others
• Technical Leadership - Specialist technical support and leadership on discipline-specific analysis, problem solving and design techniques but, knowing when to seek further guidance from Subject Matter Expert or others
• Technical Communication - Able to communicate some discipline-specific technical ideas to colleagues, based largely on examples of application
• Technical Leadership - Able to apply principles and methods that ensure effective information management, modelling and data security; understands the approaches and consequences to data creation, transformation and visualisation and knowing when to seek guidance from Subject Matter Expert

Knowledge: 

• Applicable UK construction regulations including CDM requirements.
• Understanding of the Regulatory/Legislative Framework relevant to HS2
• Commercial awareness including understanding of cost delivery, schedule targets and the need to deliver an integrated solution that meets all functional requirements.
• Chartered Engineer/Membership (or working towards) of an appropriate professional institution or the equivalent experience.

Type of experience:  

• Experience in managing multi-disciplinary engineering and safety standards, activity on large complex major projects/ programmes within a complex infrastructure delivery programme.
• Experience of managing competing project and engineering demands, with cost and schedule implications.
• Experience technically managing civil engineering on major infrastructure projects – Highways, Rail, Airports, Viaducts, Tunnels, Nuclear, earthworks etc